Krasny Rog, Literary estate and museum in Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
Krasny Rog is a historic manor house in Bryansk Oblast with several museum rooms spread across the grounds. The estate is surrounded by old lime trees and well-maintained gardens that define its character.
Catherine II's reign saw these lands, like nearby Pochep, belong to Hetman Kirill Razumovsky and his son Alexei, who rode over from his Pochep residence to hunt and called the small house his "hunting castle". Alexei bequeathed the volost to his illegitimate sons Lev and Vasily Perovsky; their brother, the writer Antony Pogorelsky, settled here in 1825. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy moved in permanently in 1861 and died here in 1875. The main house burned on the night of 1 January 1942; the museum opened in the surviving wing on 3 September 1967.
The estate's name comes from the Krasny Rog volost, not from Tolstoy himself. Since 1967 the museum has held the annual regional poetry day "Silver Lyre" on the last Sunday of August. Its collection gathers the poet's personal belongings, household items of his era, copies of portraits of his acquaintances and old books, assembled in the surrounding area.
The museum occupies the surviving wing of the estate; the main house was rebuilt in 1988–1993, so the exhibition rooms are inside rather than spread over the grounds. The village of Krasny Rog lies about 2 km southwest of the estate in Pochepsky District, Bryansk Oblast. The regional poetry day "Silver Lyre" is held on the last Sunday of August.
The estate's main house, the "Hunting Castle", burned on the night of 1 January 1942; the present building is a reconstruction carried out in 1988–1993 to plans by Bryansk architect V. N. Gorodkov, realised with support from writer N. M. Gribachyov.
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