The estate museum “Zdraŭniova” was founded in 1988 on the site of the former estate of the artist Ilya Repin “Zdraŭniova” and it is located 16 kilometers north of Viciebsk. The Repin estate is a branch of the Viciebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The village of Droŭnieva is remembered in 1785. Here in 1892, the famous Russian artist Ilya Repin purchased the estate. It consisted of a manor house and two residential buildings, an outbuilding, farm buildings, a small park and a garden with an artificial pond.

Today, a refrigerator, a lime alley, separate trees, and a pond have been preserved from the estate. In 1893–1895, the estate house was rebuilt according to the artist's sketches. Until 1904, Repin created here the paintings "Autumn Bouquet", "Hunter", "Belarus", “On the Zachodniaja Dzvina. Sunrise” (all in 1892), "Moonlight Night" and "Young ladies on a walk among a herd of cows“ (1896), "In the sun" (1900) and others.

Ilya Repin‘s son Yuri In the 1890s painted here the paintings "Skaĺniki", "Gypsies in the village“, "Self-portrait " and others. The artist's father has been buried in the cemetery of the village of Viarchoŭje (5 km west of Zdraŭniova) (the grave has not been preserved). In 1918–1930, the family of the younger daughter of the artist Tatyana Repina-Jazeva, who with her daughter and son-in-law taught at the Zdraŭniova elementary school, lived in the estate.

In 1930, during the mass political repression, the descendants of the artist managed to leave for Finland, and the estate was dismantled for firewood. The restoration of the estate under the direction of architect Paviel Krakalioŭ was completed in 1989. The area of the protected zone is 12 hectares. The complex of the estate museum includes: the house where the memorial exposition works; the manager's house (the museum administration and the exhibition hall are located), a basement, a pond, and part of the linden alley.

Among the exhibits of the museum, we can see the watercolors "Grasshopper", "African motif", "Zaporozhets", the painting "Deserter" (1917), the drawings "Shooting Horseman", "Kuncevič’s Sermon in Viciebsk" (1893) and other works by Ilya Repin.

Publication date: 19.02.2021.

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