Why are the Pushkin Mountains called that? Pushkin Mountains. By bus and private car
, Trigorskoye and Petrovskoye. Each of them is connected with A.S. Pushkin’s stay in these places. It’s good to come here with a volume of the poet’s poems - walk along Kern Alley, find the “House of the Larins” and Onegin’s bench, wander around Pushkin’s Lukomorye.
Once upon a time these were the distant borders of the Moscow kingdom. To strengthen them, in 1569, by decree of Ivan the Terrible, a building was founded on the high Sinichnaya Hill. In the 18th century, it became the family tomb of the Hannibal-Pushkins, and in the winter of 1837 the poet himself was buried near its walls. The total area of the A. S. Pushkin Memorial Museum-Reserve is about 9800 hectares. Its infrastructure allows you to stay in these stunningly beautiful places for as long as you like.
How to get to Pushkin Mountains
By train
It is convenient to travel from Moscow to Pushkinskie Gory first by train No. 010A to Pskov (travel time 11 hours 40 minutes, seat/reserved seat/compartment ticket 1400/2100/4000 RUB), then by one of the regular buses: Pskov - Pushkinskie Gory, Pskov - Novorzhev, Pskov - Velikiye Luki (up to 8 flights per day, 2 hours 10 minutes, from 250 RUB). Bus schedules can be found at the office. website of the company GPPO "Pskovpassazhiravtotrans". The cost of a taxi ride from the Pskov railway station to the Pushkin Mountains is 2800 RUB. Prices on the page are as of November 2018.
An alternative option is to take train No. 663R to the Loknya railway station (12.5 hours, seated/reserved/compartment 750/1250/3100 RUB). Then take the Loknya - Pskov bus (1 hour 40 minutes, 250 RUB) or Velikiye Luki - Pskov, passing through the Pushkin Mountains. Taxi from Lokni to Pushkinskie Gory - 1800 RUB.
Trains No. 083A and No. 061B coming from St. Petersburg also stop at Loknya station (5 hours 20 minutes, reserved seat/compartment 1000/2000 RUB).
By bus and private car
By bus Moscow - Pskov you need to get to the small town of Opochka in the Pskov region (12 hours, 1000 RUB). A taxi to Pushkinskiye Gory from here costs 1400 RUB. After another 75 km, the bus makes a stop in the city of Ostrov, where you can change to regular buses going to the place (up to 8 trips per day, 1 hour, 150 RUB). Residents of the Northern capital can get to the Pushkin Mountains without transfers by intercity bus St. Petersburg - Bezhanitsy (2 trips per day, 7.5 hours, 640 RUB).
The fastest and most convenient way to travel is by personal car. The distance of 620 km from Moscow can be covered in 7 hours - first along the M-9 "Baltia" highway to Velikiye Luki, then along roads 57K-79 (to Lokni) and 58K-19. From St. Petersburg you should take the international highway E95 and in Novgorod turn left onto road 58K-500. The length of the route is 400 km, the journey takes 5 hours.
Transport
The only type of public transport in the Pushkin Mountains is bus No. 50, which passes them from end to end (2-5 times a day). In summer, additional routes No. 173B Avtostantsiya - Trigorskoe and No. 173B Avtostantsiya - Petrovskoe operate (2 times a day, journey time is 30 minutes). On intercity buses passing through the bus station (Novorzhevskaya St., 30), you can go to nearby settlements: Bezhanitsy (1 hour), Velikiye Luki (1 hour 10 minutes), Novorzhev (1 hour 50 minutes) and others.
The role of a taxi in Pushkinskiye Gory is performed by private cab drivers waiting for passengers near the bus station. The cost of the trip is 250 RUB.
All parking in the village is free. In Mikhailovsky, Trigorsky and Petrovsky, free parking is located at a considerable distance from the museums themselves. There are paid parking lots in the immediate vicinity of the museum facilities. They must be paid in advance at ticket offices or at the Pushkinogorsk Scientific and Cultural Center (S.S. Geichenko Boulevard, 1).
Bicycles for rent
Beautiful nature, short distances and calm terrain make the Pushkin Mountains a pleasant place for cycling. Bicycle rental is organized at the Pushkinogorye tourist center and at the Arina R. hotels. and “Altun Estate”.
Maps of Pushkin Mountains
Pushkinskie Gory Hotels
Despite the fact that there are no “star” hotels in Pushkinskiye Gory, there is a roof over your head for everyone. The most popular, comfortable and conveniently located hotel is “Arina R.” with air conditioning, cafe, swimming pool with sauna and sun terrace. But the most important thing is that it is easy to walk from it to the most interesting places in Pushkinogorye. The cost of a double room in high season is 3900 RUB. As a bonus - free WI-Fi and parking
Those who come by car can stay at the park hotel "Altun Estate", located 12 km from the Pushkin Mountains in the former Lvov estate with an ancient park and a beach on the lake. The rooms are individually decorated and some have fireplaces. Price - from 4500 RUB.
The legacy of Soviet times is the Druzhba hotel in the very center of the village with unpretentious service and unexpectedly spacious rooms for 2500 RUB. The same price applies to a room at the Pushkinogorye recreation complex, where you can order three meals a day for an additional 800 RUB per day. In addition, in the Pushkin Mountains and the immediate vicinity there is a good selection of mini-hotels, guest houses, cottages and apartments of varying degrees of comfort, capacity and cost - from 1700 to 9000 RUB.
What to bring
Leaving the Pushkin Mountains without buying something as a souvenir is an unfortunate omission. There is a very large selection of souvenirs in the long row of trade stalls lined up in front of the entrance to the Svyatogorsk Monastery. The most popular are carved wooden boxes, birch bark products, wooden toys, and original wooden crafts. Honey from the monastery apiary, milk, cottage cheese, sour cream and, depending on the season, fresh or dried mushrooms, all kinds of pickles, jams and berries are always on sale.
Mid-July is the time of cloudberry ripening, the very one that the mortally wounded Pushkin asked for. It is called the “royal berry”. It is not only tasty, but also very useful in the treatment of many diseases.
More serious and expensive purchases are books and art albums dedicated to Pushkin and Pushkin Mountain, sold in souvenir shops at museums. Great are the large knitted shawls, the most beautiful in the Pskov region, which local needlewomen knit on long winter evenings. It is worth paying tribute to the sbitnya from the Stobushinsky monastery of the Svyatogorsk Monastery. To try all its types - classic, cherry, currant, cranberry and juniper, you will have to buy more than one bottle.
Cafes and restaurants of Pushkin Mountains
The list of catering establishments in the Pushkin Mountains is limited to a couple of restaurants and several cafes. The best choice for dinner is the Barn under the Oaks restaurant in the Altun Estate complex. In addition to native Russian dishes, the menu offers European dishes. Particularly popular are steaks and cutlets made from elk and wild boar meat, homemade sausage and beer from our own brewery. The average bill for a hearty dinner with beer is 1200 RUB per person.
The Lukomorye restaurant at the Druzhba hotel is described in the story “Reserve” by Sergei Dovlatov, who worked as a guide in the Pushkin Mountains. Its interiors have remained virtually unchanged, the portions are still generous, the service is fast, and the food is tasty and inexpensive. A three-course lunch (Nobles' Nest salad, fish solyanka and boyar-style meat) will cost only 600 RUB.
Fast, tasty and inexpensive - within 500 RUB, you can have lunch at the Korzinka cafe next to the Arina R. hotel. But the Wulf Coffee House, saturated with the aroma of coffee and vanilla, seems to have come to Trigorskoye straight from the streets of old Riga or Tallinn. Here you can find the best coffee, desserts, fresh pastries, pies with meat, mushrooms and cabbage in Pushkinogorye. In the coffee shop you can not only have a quick snack (tea with sandwiches - 150 RUB), but also have a good rest, recharge your phone, connect to free Wi-Fi and have a hearty conversation with the hospitable owner.
Entertainment and attractions
The history of the Holy Mountains goes back to the distant 14th century. Among the local attractions are two ancient settlements - Voronich and Savkina Gorka, destroyed by Polish troops during the Livonian War.
The Pushkin period of these places began with the Petrovskoye estate. The poet's great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Hannibal, was granted it in 1742 by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. A large wooden house stands by the lake, surrounded by a park, planned by Abram Petrovich himself in accordance with the tastes of that time.
An ancient road, skirting Lake Kuchane, leads from Petrovskoye to the family estate of the Pushkins, Mikhailovskoye. The two years spent here in exile were not the easiest in Pushkin’s life, but very fruitful. During this period, he wrote about 100 works in a modest “disgraced house”. The northern façade of the manor house faces the Sorot River, where, as in Pushkin’s times, wild ducks nest. The southern one opens onto a spacious courtyard with flower beds and outbuildings. The poet’s nanny, Arina Rodionovna, lived in one of them. Part of the Mikhailovsky landscape is an old manor park with ponds, bridges thrown over them and shady alleys, one of which leads to the wooden chapel of the Archangel Michael.
From Mikhailovskoye a beautiful trail goes along the floodplain of the Sorot River. Pushkin often traveled this road, visiting his friends Osipov-Wulf in the neighboring Trigorskoye estate. The unprepossessing landowner House of Trigorsky, standing on a hill across the ravine from the Voronich settlement, is the same “house of the Larins” described by Pushkin in “Eugene Onegin”, and some call the daughters of the owner Praskovya Aleksandrovna Osipova the prototypes of Tatyana and Olga.
The highest hill in the chain of the Pushkin Mountains is occupied by the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery. Pushkin visited it more than once during his exile, visited the famous fairs that were held near its walls, and later worked in the monastery archive, collecting material for the drama “Boris Godunov.” Founded by decree of Ivan the Terrible, the monastery survived the Polish invasion, and its first abbot, Zosima, participated in the Zemsky Sobor, which elected Godunov to the throne. In the severe cold of 1837, the poet’s body was brought here from St. Petersburg and buried near the walls of the Assumption Church. Today there are about 25 monks and novices in the monastery. During the service, Pushkin and his ancestors buried in the family necropolis are commemorated here every day.
The best period for swimming in local rivers and lakes is from late June to mid-August. The largest number of tourists come to Pushkin Mountains from May to September.
Victor Shilov. Svyatogorsk Monastery
Located 112 km southeast of Pskov, 57 km southeast of the Ostrov railway station (on the Pskov - Rezekne line).
Story: founded in the 16th century as the Tobolenets settlement (named after the name of the lake) at the Svyatogorsk monastery.
In the 19th century, the settlement of Tobolenets was a modest volost center with its own government, fire brigade, small hospital, almshouse and reading room. The volost administration was located on Mount Volostnoy (today known as Mount Sunset). The fire station stood in the center of the settlement, opposite it on the hill there was a hospital. Below there were shops and a tavern, closer to the monastery - the houses of merchants and priests. In addition to the Svyatogorsk Monastery, there were three churches and two chapels. In the early 1830s, A.I. Raevsky opened the first free school in the settlement, where 30 children studied. In the 1840s, the Ministry of State Property founded its own school here, and in 1884 a school was opened at the monastery, in which 40 boys studied. At the beginning of the 20th century, twenty primary schools and one five-grade school appeared in the village.
In 1877, a post office was opened in the settlement, and in 1886 a telegraph line ran from Novgorodka to Bezhanitsy. Telephone communication first appeared in 1910. In 1912, the first telephone exchange with 10 numbers was installed, which made it possible to have constant communication with Opochka and five villages. During the First World War, all communication lines were destroyed. In 1912, kerosene lamps were used for street lighting for the first time in the Holy Mountains. Lanterns hung near the house of the volost government, near the tavern and shops. Electricity appeared during the years of Soviet power.
On May 25, 1925, a special resolution was adopted by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee: “To rename the village of Tobolenets, the center of the Pushkin volost of the Pskov province, into the village of Pushkinskiye Gory.” Two years later, the village became the center of a district formed as part of the Pskov district of the Leningrad region by a resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee dated August 1, 1927 under the name Pushkinsky from Pushkin and part of the Veleiskaya volost of Opochetsky district. The area was called Pushkinsky until 1936. On May 11, 1937, the district was transferred from Velikoluksky to Opochetsky and began to be called Pushkinogorsky.
The new regional center began to develop in a new way. In 1927, a secondary school named after. A. S. Pushkin, the building had 13 rooms and was designed to educate 480 children. A new hospital was built near the school, soon the House of Soviets, a pharmacy, and a restaurant. There were seven streets in the village, three of which were paved and illuminated by electric lamps. In the pre-war years, Pushkin Mountains began at the monastery wall and ended at the secondary school.
On August 23, 1944, when the Pskov region was formed, the region, the center of which was the Pushkin Mountains, was included in its composition.
From February 1, 1963, for four years, Pushkinskie Gory was not a district center, since the district did not exist as an administrative unit and was part of the Novorzhevsky district. The Pushkinogorsky district was restored on December 30, 1966.
Until 1942, the Trigorskaya railway station on the Pskov - Polotsk line operated near the village. It was destroyed by the Germans.
Population: The population in 2010 was 5222 people.
N The most significant enterprises of the Pushkin Mountains:
- - CJSC "Pushkinogorsk Butter and Cheese Factory"
- - CJSC "Pushkinogorskaya PMK"
- - JSC "Stroitel",
- - recreation and recreation institution “Pushkinogorye”
In addition, the village has a flax factory, a bakery, two road organizations, and a printing house; The municipal housing and communal services enterprise operates steadily.
The State Memorial Historical-Literary and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin “Mikhailovskoye” is also an economically important enterprise.
Attractions: in the Pushkinogorsky district there is the state memorial historical, literary and natural landscape museum-reserve of A. S. Pushkin “Mikhailovskoye”, which includes the villages of Mikhailovskoye (the poet’s place of exile in 1824-1826), Trigorskoye, Petrovskoye; museums "Pushkin Village" and "Water Mill" in the village of Bugrovo; the settlements of Voronich, Vrev, Velye and Savkina Gorka, as well as the Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Monastery - the burial place of the poet. The reserve annually hosts the Pushkin Poetry Festival.
The blog “Get to know your native land” is a virtual journey for children around the Pskov region and is the embodiment in the Internet space of the main materials of the project of the Centralized Library System of Pskov “Know your native land!”
This project was developed and implemented in the libraries of the Centralized Library System of Pskov in 2012-2013. - Library - Center for Communication and Information, Children's Ecological Library "Rainbow", Library "Rodnik" named after. S.A. Zolottsev and in the innovation and methodological department of the Central City Library.
The main goal of the project is to give a basic idea of the historical past of the Pskov region, its present, about the people (personalities) who glorified the Pskov region, about the richness and originality of the nature of the Pskov region.
The project united library workers, participants in the educational process and parents with a common goal.
“Cultivating love for the native land, for the native culture, for the native village or city, for the native speech is a task of paramount importance and there is no need to prove it. But how to cultivate this love? It starts small - with love for your family, for your home, for your school. Gradually expanding, this love for one’s native land turns into love for one’s country - its history, its past and present” (D. S. Likhachev).
| Pskov. Phot. Petra Kosykh. |
Project implementation partners:
City schools:
· Secondary school No. 24 named after. L.I. Malyakova (primary school teacher Valentina Ivanovna Grigorieva)
· Secondary school No. 12 named after. Hero of Russia A. Shiryaeva (primary school teacher Tatyana Pavlovna Ovchinnikova)
· Border - customs - legal lyceum (primary school teacher Ivanova Zinaida Mikhailovna)
Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Education Workers:
Pasman Tatyana Borisovna – methodologist in history, social studies and law POIPKRO
Pskov State University
Bredikhina Valentina Nikolaevna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Humanitarian Education of Pskov State University.
Blog Editor:
Burova N.G. - manager Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Central City Hospital of Pskov
Currently, despite the fact that the project that originally formed the basis for the creation of this resource has been completed, our local history blog continues to successfully exist and develop. Being at its core an information and educational resource and a good help for those who want to get to know Pskov and the amazing Pskov region (especially for children), - be it the opening of a monument in Pskov or on the territory of the Pskov region, impressions of trips to one of the corners of the Pskov region, the creation of a new local history toy library or photo gallery and, of course, we always inform our readers about the publication of new books about Pskov, designed for young local historians.
The materials on this blog can be used in school classes and at library events, or they can be read just like that - for self-education!
We are waiting on the pages of our blog for all the guys who are not indifferent to the history of Pskov and the Pskov region, and, in turn, we promise to delight our visitors with new materials. By the way, blog updates can be tracked in the section
Pushkinskie Gory is an urban-type settlement (since 1960) in the west of the Pskov region of Russia. The administrative center of the Pushkinogorsky district, as well as the municipal formation “Pushkinogorye” (with the status of “urban settlement”). Located 112 km southeast of Pskov, 57 km southeast of the Ostrov railway station (on the Pskov - Rezekne line). The history of the village dates back to 1569, when, on the orders of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, the Pskov governor Yuri Tokmakov founded the Svyatogorsk Monastery on the Sinichie Mountains (not far from the Pskov suburb of Voronich), which later played the role of a military outpost of the Russian state. The monastery was surrounded by a powerful wooden wall, which was replaced by a stone wall at the end of the 18th century.
Soon after the founding of the monastery, the Sinichya Mountains were renamed the Holy Mountains, and the Tobolenets settlement arose at the monastery (named after the name of the lake).
Beginning at least in the 1690s, fairs were held at the Svyatogorsk Monastery, bringing together merchants not only from all over the area, but also from distant cities. Svyatogorsk fairs were famous for their crowds and fun, surpassing all other fairs held in Opochetsky district in terms of turnover and the abundance of goods presented.
Peter I, by his decree of December 18 (29), 1708, introduced a new administrative division into provinces and districts. At the same time, Voronich, which had decayed in the 17th century, received the status of a suburb of Opochka, but lost its significance so much that the center of the Voronichskaya (Voronetskaya) volost of the Opochetsk district of the Ingermanland province (in 1710 it was renamed St. Petersburg) became the settlement of Tobolenets. The tsar's new decree of May 29 (June 9), 1719 introduced the division of provinces into provinces, and the settlement, together with the entire Opochetsky district, became part of the Pskov province of the St. Petersburg province.
Attractions
- In the Pushkinogorsky district there is the state memorial historical-literary and natural-landscape museum-reserve of A. S. Pushkin “Mikhailovskoye”, which includes the estates Mikhailovskoye (the poet’s place of exile in 1824-1826), Trigorskoye, Petrovskoye, and the museums “Pushkinskaya Village” " and "Water Mill" in the village of Bugrovo, the settlements of Voronich, Vrev, Velye and Savkina Gorka, as well as the Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Monastery - the burial place of the poet. The reserve annually hosts the Pushkin Poetry Festival.
- Temple of the Kazan Mother of God (1765). Konovnitsyn is considered its temple builder.
- 12 km from the Pushkin Mountains is the former Lvov estate Altun. A. I. Lvov, who was in 1823-1826. leader of the Pskov provincial nobility, exercised general supervision over the exiled A.S. Pushkin. The layout of the park and several manor buildings have been preserved. In 2008, reconstruction of the estate began, the park was put in order, the pond and the remaining buildings were cleaned and beautified. On the site of the former estate, the Altun Estate hotel is located, and in the premises of the restored barn there is the restaurant “Barn under the Oaks”.
Every year, the sights of the Pushkin Mountains and the surrounding area are visited by more than 300 thousand tourists and excursionists. To accommodate guests of the Pushkin Mountains, there is the Druzhba Hotel, the Pushkinogorye tourist base and the Altun Estate Hotel, which opened in October 2011 (12 km from the Pushkin Mountains).
Information
- A country: Russia
- Subject of the federation: Pskov region
- Municipal district: Pushkinogorsky district
- urban settlement: Pushkinogorye
Sights of the Pushkin Mountains
Any trip to the Pushkin Mountains is always accompanied by two integral and most important tasks. The main thing, of course, is to choose a hotel in the Pushkin Mountains, and what kind of vacation would be without a rich excursion program, and where else if not in the Pushkin Mountains there are a lot of historical places that you will definitely want to see.
Although the village of Pushkinskiye Gory was founded in the 16th century, it has everything for a comfortable stay and the organization of a rich excursion program.
Currently, the Pushkin Mountains are a nature reserve with an area of more than 700 hectares, with two beautiful lakes Kuchane and Malenets. The picturesque Sorot River flows among the hills, forests and meadows.
Pushkinogorye gained worldwide fame and popularity after the appearance of the Pushkin Museum-Reserve in the village of Mikhailovskoye, where the world-famous work “Eugene Onegin” was written. The village regularly hosts music and literary festivals, many of which are dedicated to the works of A.S. Pushkin.
We invite you to take an amazing journey in the footsteps of Onegin, visiting the main attractions of the Pushkin Mountains. We are always happy to offer assistance to all guests in organizing excursions to the city of Pskov.
Pushkinskie Gory
Pechery, in the Pushkin Mountains and the surrounding area, our guest house in the Pushkin Mountains is always at your service.
While staying at the “Estate in the Footsteps of Onegin” you can also visit: the museum-reserve A.S. Pushkin Mikhailovskoe, Svyatogorsk Monastery, Savkina Gorka, the ancient Russian city of Izborsk, Pskov-Pechersk Lavra, the house-museum of S. Dovlatov and many other monuments of the cultural heritage of Russia.
Important information!
The estate museums Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Petrovskoye are closed to visitors on Mondays and the last Tuesdays of each month (sanitary day). Walking in local parks is not prohibited at this time.
From April 1 to April 28 and from November 10 to November 30, museums and parks are closed for sanitary maintenance
Pushkin Mountains are located 120 km southeast of Pskov in the very center of the Pskov region near the St. Petersburg-Kyiv highway. Once upon a time this place was called the Holy Mountains. The name is associated with the Svyatogorsk Monastery located here, founded in 1569 by the Pskov governor, Prince Yuri Tokmakov, by order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible with funds from the royal treasury. The monastery on Sinichya Mountain was supposed to strengthen the approaches to the city of Voronich - one of the strongholds on the western border of the Pskov land.
Ancient chroniclers connect the founding of the monastery with the legend of the appearance of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God to the local shepherd Timofey Terentyev.
At the site of the apparition, the Svyatogorsk Monastery was built, and nearby the Kazan Church and the Intercession Chapel. The church and chapel are located on this hill. The Intercession Chapel was built on the site of the forty-day prayer of St. Blessed Timothy. Every year on the ninth Friday after Easter, July 30**, and on the day of the Intercession of the Mother of God, a prayer service for water is held on Timothy Hill. In the chapel there is a tombstone from the grave of Maria Ivanovna Osipova, a resident of Trigorskoye. It is known that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin visited the Kazan Church.
Pushkinskie Gory
The Temple of the Kazan Mother of God in the Holy Mountains * (Pushkin Mountains) has existed for more than two hundred and forty years. This church has been active throughout its history and has never closed. The temple is located in the old part of the village, not far from the Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Monastery. The temple is wooden, has a two-tier bell tower with a view of the surrounding area. At the top of the hill, next to the temple, is the Intercession Chapel. In 1569 There was an appearance of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Svyatogorsk to the blessed shepherd Timothy. (The story of the appearance of the icon...) The Svyatogorsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared on Sinichya Mountain, now called Holy. Before this event, Saint Timothy prayed on a nearby hill, which was named Timofeeva.
Together with the monastery, the Tobolonets settlement arose. The lake located here also bears the same name. By the beginning of the 18th century, the settlement grew into the village of Holy Mountains, which were renamed Pushkinsky on May 25, 1925.
This region is inextricably linked with the name of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. By a resolution of the Small Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR dated March 17, 1922, these places were declared protected areas and taken under state protection. The villages of Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye, Petrovskoye are deeply and organically connected with the life and work of Pushkin. His ashes rest in the ancient Svyatogorsk Monastery.
The main part of the Pushkin Nature Reserve is the village of Mikhailovskoye; it was once part of Mikhailovskaya Bay. By personal decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, these lands were granted eternal possession to Pushkin’s great-grandfather Abram Petrovich Hannibal. From that time on, Pushkin’s ancestors settled on the banks of Soroti. The poet called Mikhailovskoye “a haven of peace, work and inspiration.” He came here in 1817 and 1819 as a young man, full of hope; here, at the height of his fame, he “spent two unnoticed years as an exile” (1824-1826). The Mikhailovsky Park created by my grandfather has been preserved.
Next to Mikhailovsky is the Osipov-Wulf estate - Trigorskoye.
A.S. Pushkin was sincerely attached to his Trigorsk friends and spent a lot of time in their hospitable home. The park, founded in the 18th century, has been preserved.
Petrovskoye is the family estate of the Hannibals. During Pushkin’s time, Petrovsky was owned by Pyotr Abramovich Hannibal, the great-uncle of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The poet often visited him. Here he found material for the creation of "Dubrovsky" and "Arap Peter the Great".
Pushkin was buried in the Svyatogorsk Monastery near the walls of the ancient Assumption Church. Four years after his death, a monument was erected on his grave, commissioned by the poet’s widow and made by the St. Petersburg master A.M. Permogorov.Type text here…
Pushkinskoe Mountains, village (center) of Pushkinogorsky district, Pskov region
The main attraction of the village of Pushkinskiye Gory is the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery with the grave of the poet A.S. Pushkin.
The Holy Mountains (spurs of the Valdai Hills) became widely known after the Pskov governor, Prince Yuri Tokmakov, founded the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery on one of the hills by order of Grand Duke Ivan IV. In this place in 1566, the shepherdess Timothy, according to meager chronicle data, had the appearance of the miraculous icon of Hodegetria the Mother of God: “...appearing in the Voronach region, on the Sinichya Mountains, on the Settlement, forgiveness, in the name of the Most Pure Mother of God, and many, many forgiveness of people began with every illness.” (before the miracles appeared, the Holy Mountains were called Sinichye).
“The Tale of the Appearance of Miracle-Working Icons and Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary in the region of the city of Pskov on Sinichya Gora, now the head of the Holy Mountain,” kept in the monastery and known in several lists of the 17th century, tells about miraculous apparitions in more detail. In the mid-18th century, when almost the entire monastery archive was destroyed in a fire, the Svyatogorsk Tale was miraculously preserved. It was discovered in Pushkin’s times by Bishop of Pskov Evgeny Bolkhovitinov, a famous historian, author of many works on the history of Russian literature.
For Grand Duke Ivan IV "the Terrible" the construction of the "stone monastery" was seen as necessary to strengthen the border with Lithuania (or rather, the approaches to the neighboring city of Voronich). In gratitude for the quick work on building the monastery, the Grand Duke presented it with books, vestments, and the belfry with a bell. The donation of bells by the ruling house also happened later: the list of donors also included Boris Godunov, Grand Dukes Mikhail Fedorovich, Alexei Mikhailovich, Emperor Peter I. The monastery was included in the first-class, it was 27th in the list of the largest monasteries in Rus'.
The great political role played by the monastery is evidenced by the fact that its abbot Zosima Zavalishin was authorized by the Pskov clergy to participate in the Zemsky Sobor of 1598 in Moscow. Among others, the letter of election of Boris Godunov as Tsar of Rus' bore his signature. In the 17th-18th centuries he was one of the richest in Rus'.
In the 18th century, the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery lost its defensive significance. The "Ecclesiastical States" of 1764 deprived the monastery of many economic privileges, and it became a third-class, forty-fifth in degree, but still had its lands, remaining rich and influential. Large incomes came from renting land and donations. Fairs were held annually at the monastery, attracting a large number of merchants and people. They were also visited during his exile to the Mikhailovskoye estate by the poet A.S. Pushkin.
The monastery was famous for its bells. There were 14 of them in total. The largest, cast in Moscow, weighed 151 pounds. This bell was ordered from the Moscow factory of D. Tyulenev in 1753. According to legend, during its casting there was an unexpected test for the craftsmen. Craftsmen, who often hid silver, were forced to throw all the hidden ingots into the alloy for the bell. According to another legend, many silver coins donated by pilgrims were put into the alloy. One way or another, the Svyatogorsk monastery received one of the rarest bells in Rus'. Today you can see fragments of this bell. There was also a 15-pound bell in the monastery, popularly called Goryun (a gift from Grand Duke Ivan IV).
The center of the monastery was the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Mother of God, built by Pskov craftsmen in accordance with the traditions of local temple architecture. The cathedral consists of a central quadrangle (its walls are one and a half meters thick, made of flagstone) and two aisles - northern and southern, added in 1770-1776. financed by local landowners.
Near the walls of the Assumption Cathedral there is the grave of the poet A.S. Pushkin (died in 1837) and his ancestors: grandfather Osip Abramovich Hannibal (died 1806), grandmother Maria Alekseevna (died 1818), mother Nadezhda Osipovna (died 1836) and father Sergei Lvovich ( died 1848). Also, the poet’s younger brother, Plato (died on the Mikhailovskoye estate in 1819), is buried in the altar part of the Assumption Cathedral.
Sloboda Tobolenets
The settlement of Tobolenets was founded together with the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery and received its name from the nearby lake. The first chronicle mention of this settlement dates back to 1569.
Sloboda Tobolenets is a modest volost center with its own government, fire brigade, small hospital, almshouse and reading room. The volost administration was located on Mount Volostnoy (today known as Mount Sunset). The fire station stood in the center of the settlement, opposite it on the hill there was a hospital. Below there were shops and a tavern, closer to the monastery - the houses of merchants and priests. In addition to the Svyatogorsk Monastery, there were three churches and two chapels. In the early 1830s.. A.I. Raevsky opened the first free school in the settlement, where 30 children studied. In the 40s. The Ministry of State Property founded its school here, and in 1884. A school arose at the monastery, in which 40 boys studied. At the beginning of the 20th century, twenty primary schools and one five-grade school appeared in the village.
In 1877, a post office was opened in the settlement, and in 1886 a telephone line ran from Novgorodka to Bezhanitsy. Telephone communication first appeared in 1910. In 1912, the first telephone exchange with 10 numbers was installed, which made it possible to have constant communication with Opochka and five villages. During the First World War, all communication lines were destroyed. In 1912, kerosene lamps were used for street lighting for the first time in the Holy Mountains. Lanterns hung near the house of the volost government, near the tavern and shops. Electricity appeared during the years of Soviet power.
On May 25, 1925, a special resolution was adopted by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee: “To rename the village of Tobolenets, the center of the Pushkin volost of the Pskov province, into the village of Pushkinskiye Gory.” The new regional center began to develop in a new way. In 1927, a secondary school named after. A.S. Pushkin, the building had 13 rooms and was designed to educate 480 children. A new hospital was built near the school, soon the House of Soviets, a pharmacy, and a restaurant. There were seven streets in the village, three of which were paved and illuminated by electric lamps. The district was formed as part of the Pskov district of the Leningrad region by a resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee dated August 1, 1927 under the name Pushkinsky from the Pushkin and part of the Veleiskaya volost of the Opochetsky district.
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The district was called Pushkinsky until 1936. On May 11, 1937, the district was transferred from Velikoluksky to Opochetsky and began to be called Pushkinogorsky. In the pre-war years, Pushkin Mountains began at the monastery wall and ended at the secondary school. On February 5, 1941, the district left the Opochetsky Okrug due to the liquidation of the latter.
On August 23, 1944, during the formation of the Pskov region, the region was included in its composition under the name of Pushkinogorsk.
Since 1960, Pushkinskiye Gory became an urban-type settlement.
From February 1, 1963, for four years, the district did not exist as an administrative unit and was part of the Novorzhevsky district. Pushkinogorsky district was restored on December 30, 1966.
Pushkin Mountains: sights, photos
| A country | Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Pskov region |
| Municipal district | Pushkinogorsky district |
| urban settlement | Pushkinogorye |
| Ethnobury | Pushkinogorsk people |
| OKATO code | 58 251 551 |
| Postcode | 181370 |
| Telephone code | +7 81146 |
| PGT with | 1960 |
| First mention | 16th century |
| Timezone | UTC+4 |
| Population | ▼ 5652 people (2010) |
| Vehicle code | 60 |
| Former names | Tobolenets, Holy Mountains |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 57°01′00″ N. w. 28°55′00″ E. d. / 57.016667° n. w. 28.916667° E. d. (G) (O) (I)57°01′00″ n. w. 28°55′00″ E. d. / 57.016667° n. w. 28.916667° E. d. (G) (O) (I) |
Pushkinskiye Gory is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the municipalities of the urban settlement of Pushkinogorye and the Pushkinogorsky district of the Pskov region of Russia.
Located 112 km southeast of Pskov, 57 km southeast of the Ostrov railway station (on the Pskov - Rezekne line).
The village is included in the List of Historical Cities of Russia.
Population
Population
| 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2002 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1672 | 2412 | 4037 | 5845 | 7067 | 6089 | 5652 |
Attractions
- Temple of the Kazan Mother of God (1765).
- In 2000, on the western outskirts of the Pushkin Mountains, the Argus bird nursery was created (in Latin this is the name of one of the most beautiful species of pheasants, and in ancient Greek mythology - the thousand-eyed and vigilant guardian). In 2010, the name was changed to the Zoograd ecopark.
- In the Pushkinogorsky district there is the state memorial historical, literary and natural landscape museum-reserve of A. S. Pushkin “Mikhailovskoye”, which includes the villages of Mikhailovskoye (the poet’s place of exile in 1824-1826), Trigorskoye, Petrovskoye, the settlements of Voronich, Vrev , Velye and Savkina Gorka, as well as the Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Monastery - the burial place of the poet. The reserve annually hosts the Pushkin Poetry Festival.
Every year, the sights of the Pushkin Mountains and the surrounding area are visited by more than 300 thousand tourists and excursionists. To accommodate guests of the Pushkin Mountains, the Druzhba Hotel and the Pushkinogorye tourist base operate.
Lake Kamenets at the entrance to the Pushkin Mountains
Story
Founded in the 16th century as the Tobolenets settlement (named after the name of the lake) at the Svyatogorsk monastery.
In the 19th century, the settlement of Tobolenets was a modest volost center with its own government, fire brigade, small hospital, almshouse and reading room. The volost administration was located on Mount Volostnoy (today known as Mount Sunset). The fire station stood in the center of the settlement, opposite it on the hill there was a hospital. Below there were shops and a tavern, closer to the monastery - the houses of merchants and priests. In addition to the Svyatogorsk Monastery, there were three churches and two chapels. In the early 1830s, A.I. Raevsky opened the first free school in the settlement, where 30 children studied. In the 1840s, the Ministry of State Property founded its own school here, and in 1884 a school was opened at the monastery, in which 40 boys studied. At the beginning of the 20th century, twenty primary schools and one five-grade school appeared in the village.
In 1877, a post office was opened in the settlement, and in 1886 a telegraph line ran from Novgorodka to Bezhanitsy. Telephone communication first appeared in 1910. In 1912, the first telephone exchange with 10 numbers was installed, which made it possible to have constant communication with Opochka and five villages. During the First World War, all communication lines were destroyed. In 1912, kerosene lamps were used for street lighting for the first time in the Holy Mountains. Lanterns hung near the house of the volost government, near the tavern and shops. Electricity appeared during the years of Soviet power.
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The sights of the village of Pushkinskie Gory are visited by over three hundred thousand tourists every year. It was here that A.S. Pushkin was exiled, here he lived his last year, here he was buried.
To the Pushkin Mountains - on your own or with a tour?
During the excursion, the Pushkin expert guide will tell you what to see first, take you to the main memorable places, and tell interesting and unusual episodes from the life and work of the famous poet.
The list of main route points is as follows:
visit to the Mikhailovskoye estate, where Alexander Sergeevich lived;
visit to “Trigorskoye”, the estate of the landowner Praskovya Andreevna Osipova-Wulf;
inspection of the Svyatogorsk Monastery, where the remains of the poet are buried.
The village of Mikhailovskoye is the best place to become better acquainted with the controversial personality of the poet and to be more fully imbued with his genius. Near the house-museum there is a modest outbuilding where his nanny Arina Rodionovna lived. If you walk along Mikhailovsky Park, you can see the Hannibal family crypt, next to which is the picturesque linden “Alley Kern”. The Trigorskoye estate will give you the atmosphere of noble life, and the English park located nearby will remind you of lines from Eugene Onegin.
Must visit
The nearby village of Bugrovo is very popular, where there are the museums “Melnitsa” and “Pushkin Village”. It’s definitely worth going to the village of Petrovskoye to see the Hannibals’ estate, which, alas, is only a reconstruction; only one park has survived to this day.
Among the attractions, it is also worth noting the eco-park “Zoograd” - children are delighted with the local inhabitants, and the emu willingly poses for photos.