Walking around Pushkin’s inspiring estate at daybreak, it’s easy to see where Russia’s greatest poet received his inspiration. As you pass through the moist forest air, you soon reach the edge of a lake, offering magnificent views of tall, regal pines lining the far shore. A silvery mist rises off the smooth surface of the water as a lone fisherman casts his line out across the reeds.
The family house of Russia’s most loved writer is open as part of the Pushkin Museum Reserve(22321; admission R150; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Dec-Mar, 9am-8pm Tue-Sun May-Oct, closed Apr & Nov), a 2½-hour bus ride from Pskov. Alex- ander Pushkin spent two phenomenally productive years in exile at Mikhailovskoe, his family’s estate near the settlement of Pushkinskie Gory (Pushkin Hills), 130km south of Pskov. The family first came to the area in the late 1700s, when Pushkin’s great-grandfather Abram Hannibal was given the land by Empress Elizabeth. The family house was destroyed during WWII and has since been rebuilt.
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