In Kobrin, located in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, is truly a unique Museum – preserved peasant hut, where she was a babysitter of Alexander Pushkin, Arina Rodionovna.

This woman you know, probably in the world by name and patronymic. But what's her name, I can say a few. Nanny Pushkin was born in a small village of Voskresenskoye, in the house serfs of Hannibal, Luceri Kirillov and Rodion Yakovlev, April 10, 1758. When Arina was 10 years old, her father died, and mother was left alone with 7 children. Married Arina came out at 22, for the inhabitant of the neighboring village of Kobrin, Fyodor Matveyev, where he moved to live.

His hut at Matveevy who dreamed of their own households, it was not 15 years until, in 1795, the grandmother of Alexander, Maria A. Hannibal, gave them a small house.

The family of Hannibal and the Pushkins were familiar with lively and eloquent peasant Arina Matveeva long before the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Arina was a nurse and then a nurse Alexei, nephew of Mary Alexeevna Hannibal. When in 1797 the couple Pushkins – Sobolev and Hope Osipovna – born daughter, Olga, a nurse and a nanny to her called Arina.

In 1798, the Pushkins decided to sell his estate and move to Moscow. Arina the nurture offered to give a free. She was faced with a choice: either to leave as a fortress by the hosts in Moscow or back to children in Kobrin, to work their own land as the free peasant. Not confident in the future and worrying about the future of their four children, whom she was visiting in Kobrin, Arina went to Moscow. The benefit of this solution was simple – serfs, attached to owner's yard were in a special position. In addition, with Pushkinyme she had an agreement that she will be able to move to Moscow and their children. Six months after his departure to Moscow, Pushkin and son Alexander. At the time the Arina Rodionovna was 41 years old.

Four years later, the husband died of Arina Rodionovna. She applied for permission to transport their children to Moscow to the owners. When consent was obtained, the daughter of Maria and Nadezhda and youngest son of Pushkin's nanny - Stefan moved to his mother. The eldest son of Arina Rodionovna, Whitney, remained with his family in Kobrin.

It so happened that many generations of descendants of Arina Rodionovna lived in a small hut of his famous relative. Only in 1950 the family of her descendants still decided to leave their village. Their house was the oldest in Kobrin, and still, the little parlour, as in the days of Alexander Pushkin, burnt black.

In 1937, the 100th anniversary of the death of A. S. Pushkin, in the house Babysitting opened a reading hall. Some time later, the house was bought by the mother nyrkova that accidentally learned that it was for the house. She decided to open a Museum. The exhibits have been collected by the whole village. The restoration of the hut held the all-Union Museum of A. S. Pushkin, the society of protection of monuments of history and culture, Gatchina Museum of local history and a local farm.

In 1974, after the restoration of the house-Museum was opened. In the center of the hut – Russian stove, side by side, for a rough canvas curtain – bed and suspended cradle. In the upper room – Desk with wood, birch bark, clay pots. The walls are lined with chests and benches. In the red corner is a small iconostasis and a lamp. Exhibits – the decoration of peasant houses. They were donated to the Museum by private individuals. The only thing that belonged to Pushkin's nanny – bag of coarse cloth.

Annually the Museum is visited by thousands of tourists from different corners of the world. For example, in 2008 it was visited by over 15 thousand people. In the Museum are held periodically stylized tours and small theatrical performances involving students and Museum staff.