The village of Boldino in the South of the Nizhny Novgorod region, for three centuries it was the estate of Pushkin family. The first documentary mention of the village dates back to the eighties years of the sixteenth century, when the estate was donated Evstafy Mikhailovich Pushkin for diplomatic and military services. More than fifty hectares of ancestral lands of the genus Pushkins in a picturesque location of the village Zabortnymi (now Bolshoe Boldino), 230 km from Nizhny Novgorod.

In anniversary – the 150th anniversary of the birthday of the great poet, in 1949, was organized by the State literary-memorial Museum named after Alexander Pushkin, and was later restored eponymous natural Museum-reserve. Family HOMESTEAD includes thirteen completely renovated and restored architectural sites, including two of the manor Park with his beloved grove poet – Lucenec and the village livovka. The centre of the reserve is a family estate with a manor-house, office, stables, baths and houses of priests (now a Museum of fairy tales). Next to the Museum in 1979 was a monument to the great poet. In Nizhny Novgorod the estate of A. S. Pushkin was written more than fifty works, forever known to the world classical literature of the nineteenth century.

Nowadays, the Museum-reserve "Boldino" this is the largest literary-memorial sight in Russia, associated with the name of the great Russian poet.