Sausag house – the house-Museum of the family, who have added your page to the history of Britain. Perhaps not the brightest. But certainly full of courage, love and devotion.

The house was built by Robert Pennington, known for the fact that he accompanied king Charles II in his exile in Holland. Having lost a son during the epidemic of bubonic plague, Pennington in 1687 he moved from London to Wimbledon, a village a few miles from the capital. Here Dutch architects built him a house, which we see now – its interior preserves the memory of the life of generations for nearly three and a half centuries.

On the sides of the main entrance are two statues, which are considered to be of sculptural portraits of the wife and daughter of Robert Pennington. Redbrick house at different times visited the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Frederick, Lord Byron, lady Emma Hamilton and her heroic lover, Admiral Lord Nelson. Changed the composition of the family of Pennington, she entered into a family relationship with other names – English Mallarme, Swedish Munte, but the house was unbreakable.

In 1907, the great-great-granddaughter of Robert Pennington, Hilda Pennington-Mellor, married personal physician to the Swedish Royal family Axel Munthe. The Swede was not only a physician but also a talented writer. One day he was discussing his book "the Story of San Michele" (which became a bestseller) with the publisher John Murray in the garden Sausag house, and he said that a century ago it was in this garden its ancestor, the namesake and also the publisher John Murray discussed with Lord Byron's edition of the works of the great poet.

The son of four Munthe, Malcolm, was a British soldier who fought in the rear of the Nazis in occupied Scandinavia and Italy. He was awarded the Military cross for bravery. After the war he engaged in the painstaking restoration Sausag house, damaged by Nazi bombs and opened it to the public. The mansion now belongs to the descendants of Pennington-Millerov-Munte, sometimes they live here, but most of the building is already a Museum. Attached to it is a wonderful wild garden growing without pesticides and herbicides. No wonder he loved the Robins, blackbirds, chaffinches, great spotted woodpeckers, owls and jays.

The long façade of the room, furniture of the XVII century, inherited from the founders of the family nest. On the walls an excellent collection of paintings, collected over the centuries. A lot of items silently testify to the amazing family stories, woven into the history of Britain and Europe. On the desktop in the office – photos of family members in the dining room covered with a huge table in the music room on the piano deployed the notes on the tables by the Windows – fresh flowers from the garden. Home shadows glide past, and in its halls one can hear echoes of the life that will never come back.