The Museum Of N. And. Morozova in the village of Borok Photo: Museum Of N. And. Morozova in the village of Borok

The Museum Of N. And. Morozov is the Museum of man unusual destiny, and the Museum of manor life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Midst of modern buildings Borca he looks very modest. This one-storey wooden house with a mezzanine, where he was born, spent his childhood, and then, after a long imprisonment in Czarist prisons, spent the last years of the life of academician Nikolai Morozov A., scholar and lexicographer, revolutionary, writer and poet.

The memorial Museum was opened here in 1946, This house was once the wing of the manor Borok, which was founded in the mid-19th century by the father of a revolutionary, Mologa the landowner and nobleman Shepochkina Peter. The mother of Nicholas Alexandrovich, Plaksina Anna Vasilievna, was a serf, a peasant. Deputy to General gave her his freedom and wrote a bourgeois Mologa with the surname Morozov. Peter A. and Anna loved each other but were not married, so all of their seven children wore maternal surname, and patronymic for the godfather – the Alexander.

Borok is a typical manor house of the time. A large manor house that frost gave the Academy of Sciences in 1955, burned, today this place is the building of the Institute of biology. Also survived Park in English style.

On the South side of the Museum building through a glazed porch, guests of the Museum fall into the hallway with French wicker furniture set. The door from the hallway leads to the dining room and then to the open terrace where the stairs down to the garden. The West door leads to the room that used to be the kitchen. On the mezzanine there is a summer study-library.

From the outside the building looks small, but inside it is surprisingly spacious. In addition to the four memorial rooms in the house-Museum has two exhibition rooms, which was previously intended for guests. The house is preserved in vivo environment, which is an interesting blend of rural simplicity, noble culture and passion for science the inhabitants of the house.

In the first hall tells about the life of Nikolai Morozov. His contemporaries called him "the Shlisselburg prisoner", Russian "the count of Monte Cristo". He had a happy childhood, despite the disadvantage of his parents. Nicholas was fond of science, and his father encouraged this desire. At the age of 15 Nicholas went to study in Moscow. For 3 years in high school he was a student of Moscow University. Collected at this time in Hiking the suburbs fossils are still kept in the University Museum. In the gymnasium frost organized a secret society of naturalists and met with representatives of the mug radically-minded youth. After that he leaves the gymnasium, breaks all ties with family and begins his arduous path. He is involved in "going to the people", is a member of the "Land and freedom" party "Narodnaya Volya", spends three years in prison. "The trial of 20" Morozov was sentenced to perpetual reference to the mines, which was replaced by life imprisonment.

From 1882 to 1884 Morozov held in the Peter and Paul fortress, from 1884 to 1905 in Shlisselburg. During this time he wrote 26 volumes of scientific works. In 1905 N. Morozov was released under the Amnesty, and he returned to his homeland in Borok at age 52. Here he wrote many articles, published dozens of books on astronomy, chemistry, physics, history, mathematics, Economics, Aeronautics, linguistics. N. Morozov known as a poet and writer. His memoirs were read Leo Tolstoy. In 1907, Nikolai Morozov married Xenia Boryslav, writer, pianist, translator.

Today, the Museum maintains a correspondence with his nephews Morozova, in the second exposition exhibits collected by the relatives of Nicholas Alexandrovich materials. Here you can see articles and books about Morozov, as well as the works of our contemporaries, it is written in the development of the ideas of this scientist. The Museum features many photos of native N. And.Morozov, his colleagues, public figures and scientists.

For each item in the Museum is an amazing story. Special comfort home lend tiled stoves, furniture of different styles. Here collects vintage magazines of the early 20th century There is also a purely "Morozov" exhibits – for example, star globe, starry card. Contemporaries Morozov recalled how he drove at night guests to walk around and taught them to find the constellations.

Memorial library of the Museum has about 5 thousand magazines and books in 11 languages.

In the memorable days of historians gather here, morozovichi, historians, simply Museum workers, journalists, environmentalists, which lead to interesting conversations.

The Museum staff are caring for the graves Morozov, Nikolai Alexandrovich and Xenia Alexeyevna in the Park in the village and the graves of his relatives scientist in neighboring villages. In 1954 at the grave Morozova N. And. a monument was erected.

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