The house-museum of Maria Nikolaevna Ermolova - the great Russian actress who performed at the Maly Theater - is located in Moscow at 11 Tverskaya Boulevard.
Building 1773
The mansion was built on Tverskoy Boulevard in 1773. He changed many owners, including Freemasons: according to rumors, it was in this, one of the few Moscow buildings that survived the fire of 1812, that their meetings took place.
The name of the first owner of the house is still unknown, and the penultimate owner in 1889 sold it along with the situation to Maria Ermolova and her husband, the famous Moscow lawyer Nikolai Shubinsky. The couple brought only an extensive library and piano to their new home. Over time, Maria Nikolaevna made some changes to the interiors of the mansion, for example, ordered the replacement of parquet: visitors to the house-museum of the actress walk along it today. But the main staircase made of wood, along which Maria Nikolaevna's guests climbed from the first floor to the second, has already turned more than 200 years old.
The mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard was visited by the entire color of the Russian intelligentsia of those years: Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, famous actors who, together with Ermolova, served at the Maly Theater - Yuriev, Kachalov, Moskvin, lawyers and writers. Chaliapin sang here, and Chekhov wrote about his visit to the great actress: "I recently ate at Yermolova's. The wild flower, falling into one bouquet with a clove, became more fragrant from a good neighborhood, so I, having dined at the star, then felt my radiance around my head for two days. "
Ermolova and Shubinsky moved to Tverskaya Boulevard, 11, already in an exclusively formal, and not real, marital relationship: after a few years of a seemingly prosperous marriage concluded in 1874, relations between them broke down. At the age of thirty, Maria Nikolaevna fell in love with the professor of the medical faculty of Moscow University Konstantin Pavlinov, Nikolai Petrovich also had connections on the side. Together, Ermolova and Shubinsky remained for the sake of Margarita's only daughter. In Soviet times, it was she who became the first keeper of her mother's museum, and therefore Margarita Nikolaevna was allowed to live in the legendary, but already decently "compacted" mansion.
We could learn many secrets and amazing stories from the life of a great actress - in addition to those that remained in the memoirs of her contemporaries. But in 1917, during the revolutionary riots in Moscow, when shooting thundered on Tverskoy Boulevard, armed people burst into houses and rampaged there, and a pogrom was staged in her dressing room at the Maly Theater, Maria Nikolaevna burned all her diaries in the fireplace of the legendary mansion. A year later, her husband emigrated abroad, leaving his wife in Moscow.
Actress of the Maly Theater Ermolova, who became famous even before the October revolutions, the theater during the years of political storms did not abandon. Respect for her from the outside the new authorities were so great that, requisitioning almost any palaces, houses and apartments of "former" people, they still left the actress her home.
Ermolova worked in the theater under the new government. In 1920, she was the first among the actors to receive the title of People's Artist of the Republic. But already in 1923 she left the stage, and five years later she became seriously ill and died in her bedroom in that very mansion. Dr. Pavlinov, who visited his former lover during his illness, could not help her in any way.
In addition to the restored interiors of the main White Hall, the winter garden, the Yellow Living Room, where famous guests were received every day, Ermolova's office, which was restored with perfect accuracy, because this room was captured in a photograph during the life of the actress, and other rooms of the house, visitors can see the actress's dressing room. A hundred years ago, it was located in the Maly Theater, but was reconstructed in her mansion based on descriptions of contemporaries and photographs using genuine objects.
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