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Bakhrushin Alexey Alexandrovich - founder of a private literary and theater museum, which today bears his name - Theater Museum named after A.A. Bakhrushin.

Biography

Alexey Bakhrushin was born on January 31 (February 12), 1865 in Moscow.

1895: Meeting and marrying Vera Nosova

1895 for Alexei Bakhrushin became a fateful year - at the Christmas merchant costume ball, he met his future wife Vera Vasilyevna Nosova, daughter of the owner of the industrial and commercial partnership of manufactories. The nineteen-year-old beauty wore a Folie (Spanish shepherdess) costume. Bakhrushin himself dressed up in an innovative suit with battery bulbs.

Vera Nosova, photo from the funds Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum

The Moscow merchant clans of the Bakhrushins and Nosovs were bound by close family ties. According to the memoirs of his son Yuri, Bakhrushin immediately wanted to get acquainted with young Vera, for which he had to look for an intermediary. "And this was found - it was Vera Vasilyevna brother - Vasily Vasilyevich Nosov, with whom Alexey had long been familiar. He asked to be introduced to his sister, and the acquaintance took place. After a short interaction and several joint dances, Alexei Alexandrovich realized that he was in love and found a friend of life. "

Alexey Bakhrushin with his bride Vera Nosova on the eve of the wedding. 1895. Bakhrushinsky Museum

The wedding took place on April 19 of the same year in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Kozhevniki.

For more information about the Nosovs, see Nosov's Mansion

1896: Construction of Bakhrushin's house designed by architect Karl Hippius

The building of the future Bakhrushin Museum was built in 1896 according to the project of architect Karl Hippius.

1907

K.E. Makovsky. Portrait of Vera Bakhrushina. 1900s Oil on Canvas

1910

Alexey Bakhrushin with spouse Vera and children Kira and Yuri, 1910

1913: Transfer of the Museum to the Academy of Sciences

On November 25, 1913, the Bakhrushin Museum was transferred to the hands of the state in the person of the Academy of Sciences.

On this day, the Granenaya dining room in the house of Bakhrushin was filled with a large number of important persons led by Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov.

1916

1929: The Death of Alexei Bakhrushin

One of the last photographs of A.A. Bakhrushin, 1929 Photo: A.A. Temerina

Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin remained at the head of the museum after 1917, until his death. Bakhrushin died in the Malye Gorki estate near Moscow near the Aprelevka station of the Kyiv direction of the Moscow railway on June 7, 1929 at the age of 64. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery (2nd grade)

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