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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.
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. "
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
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
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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