Bolshiye Gorki, Federal cultural heritage estate in Gorki Leninskiye, Russia.
Bolshiye Gorki is a neoclassical mansion near Moscow with a prominent columned front and surrounded by landscaped grounds. The building stands within an expansive park containing outbuildings, pathways, and planted areas that date from the early 1900s.
A brick manor with outbuildings was built in the last quarter of the 18th century by M. A. Spassiteleva, then rebuilt in its present neoclassical form by Agrafena Durasova after she bought the land in 1800–1803. In 1909 Zinaida Morozova, widow of Savva Morozov, acquired the estate and had Franz Schechtel modernize it in 1910. Lenin lived here from September 1918 and died in 1924; since 1949 the estate has been a museum.
The interior keeps the furniture and decor of the Morozov-Rheinbott era, with 18th- and 19th-century pieces and personal belongings of the Ulyanov family. Gilded furniture was covered with white slipcovers for decades so visitors would not ask why Lenin lived amid merchant luxury; the covers came off only in the 21st century.
The estate lies about 10 km from the MKAD along the Kashira highway; from metro station Domodedovskaya take bus no. 439 (12 km). The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on Tuesdays and the last Monday of the month. The main house stands at the end of a one-kilometre avenue.
In the museum stands a 1916 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, bought second-hand for Lenin in 1921. Workers at the Putilov plant in Petrograd fitted it with skis and caterpillar tracks for winter, and Lenin used it for daily runs of some sixty kilometres around Moscow and to Gorki.
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