Musée historique d'état « Gorki Leninskie », Historical museum and protected area in Gorki Leninskiye, Russia.
The Gorki Leninskiye museum-reserve combines the former Gorki manor, whose park and manor house date to the Durakhov family in the early 19th century, with a new museum building erected in 1980–1987 to designs by architects L. N. Pavlov and L. Yu. Gonchar. The new building, 800 metres from the manor house, is a composition of eleven cubes and one cylinder clad in white marble and red tuff. The photograph shows its long, low white blocks, rust-brown vertical volumes and a portico of two rows of square white columns.
The Gorki estate arose at the end of the 18th century; its park and manor house date from the Durakhov family in the early 19th century, while outbuildings and park pavilions were added before the revolution under owner Z. G. Morozova and her husband A. A. Reyntbot. Lenin first visited in autumn 1918 after an assassination attempt and from 1921–1922 spent most of his time here, dying at Gorki in January 1924. The museum-reserve opened in January 1949 for the 25th anniversary of his death.
The estate's name, Gorki, means "hills" in Russian, and the museum-reserve now also includes a Museum of Peasant Life. In the main house hang paintings by Russian and Western European artists, among them Vasily Lobov, Sergei Vinogradov and the Dutch landscapist Willem van Drielenburch.
The reserve lies in Gorki Leninskiye, about 10 km from the Moscow Ring Road along the Kashira highway, near Domodedovo. The estate grounds were reconstructed in 1961-1962, and the white-marble and red-tufa museum complex stands 800 m from the main manor house, so allow time to walk between the two. The park paths and lawns are best covered on foot.
The collection holds a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost converted into a winter vehicle by workers of the Putilov Plant, not a factory winter modification. It is one of only fifteen such cars worldwide, and the museum also displays Lenin's death mask and a replica of his Kremlin office.
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