Talashkino

Talashkino is notable because in the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century it belonged to Princess Maria Tenisheva, who created here an artistic colony.

In 1900, she opened an artisan workshop, which mainly produced ceramics and carvings, and invited Sergey Malyutin to supervise it.

Malyutin stayed in Talashkino until 1903, and in the meanwhile designed a house in Flyonovo based on Russian fairy tales.

[2] Tenisheva also asked a photographer, Ivan Barshchevsky, to organize a historical museum in Talashkino, with the purpose of educating local peasants.

A number of Russian painters visited Tenisheva in Talashkino, including Ilya Repin, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Vrubel, and Nicolas Roerich.