Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate

As Nabokov spent part of his youth at Vyra, he visited his grandmother at Batovo and his uncle at Rozhdestveno.

The Batovo mansion burned down in 1925 and Vyra was destroyed in 1944, leaving Rozhdestveno as the sole survivor of the triad of estates owned by the Nabokov family.

[1] The mansion, designed in the Italian style, displays six Ionic columns supporting the main facade.

"Uncle Ruka" died in 1916 and bequeathed the estate along with "what would amount nowadays to a couple of million dollars"[2] to his nephew Vladimir Nabokov.

While the museum commemorates Nabokov it also displays the life of Russian nobility and of the common people of the area from the final years of Imperial Russia.