Gubin House

In April 1810, Fyodor Ivanovich Turovsky, a college assessor, a retired headquarters physician of the Lipetsk resort of Mineralnye Vody, bought a manor place in the very center of Lipetsk . Later it was here that the main street of the city formed - Dvoryanskaya (now Lenin Street). From 1812 to 1820 continued consistent expansion of land ownership in order to create a clan nest. One of the plots that F. I. Turovsky bought was already from the landowner E. S. Grishina, was just owned by N. G. Pushkin. In 1832, the construction of the new “capital” mansion of F. I. Turovsky began. The façade appearance was based on a typical project taken by an anonymous architect from the album of “exemplary” drawings “Collections of facades, His Imperial Majesty, Highest approved for private buildings in the cities of the Russian Empire”, which was specially developed in 1809-1812. famous St. Petersburg architects A. Zakharov, V. Guest, V. Stasov and A. Ruska. Built by 1836, the mansion of F.I. Turovsky was part of a large city estate, which included a two-story stone manor house with two wings, outbuildings and an excellent fruit garden. The complex was a classic Russian estate, described in the dictionary of Vladimir Dahl as "the manor house with all the nurseries, a garden, a garden and other things." The famous Russian Empire architect V.P. Stasov (1769-1848) created for the collection a whole series of drawings of residential buildings. Turovsky’s house is an exact reproduction of Stasov’s original project, although local city architects were allowed to change the proportions and details of the typical drawing. Built in the style of late classicism, the building of the manor house looked ceremonial and solemn. Strict rhythmics, laconicism of four-columned porticoes crowned with triangular pediments, and large Italian windows on the first floor of the main facade gave the whole building an extraordinary lightness and lightness. The internal layout of Turovsky’s house was as simple and clear as its facades. On the ground floor there were ceremonial rooms. According to the standard design, it was a short suite: the hall, the living room and the dining room followed the lobby. The second floor was occupied by low living rooms, also located enfilade. It is believed that among the distinguished guests of the Turovsky estate in Lipetsk was the heir to the throne, Alexander II , who in 1837, accompanied by the instructor-mentor of the poet V.A. Zhukovsky, made his famous journey through the cities of the Russian Empire. This is confirmed by a report on the activities of the Lipetsk Petrovsky Society for 1911, from where we learn about other historical events that occurred within the walls of the house.

In 1896, the Turovskys' house passed to the Gubins, or rather, to the full disposal of Claudia Ludwigovna Gubina, the wife of Colonel Alexander Mikhailovich, who had just assumed the position of district military commander. General A. M. Gubin, the new owner of the house, came from an old noble family of the Tambov province. All men in this family were experts in military affairs. Alexander Mikhailovich showed great interest in history and culture, it was he who was one of the first to put his signature on the document on the establishment of the famous Petrovsky Society in Lipetsk. And in 1911, the works of local local historians organized an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom, symbolically located in the Gubins' house, where Tsar Liberator Alexander II once stopped. KL Gubina was a well-known landlord in Lipetsk: she had several houses in the city, which were rented to visitors to the Lipetsk resort. During the management of Claudia Ludwigovna, the appearance of the mansion undergoes significant changes: a two-story extension appears on the courtyard facade, in which there is a stone staircase leading to the rooms of the second floor. The staircase is still preserved. Separate rooms of their own mansion were also surrendered to visitors to holiday-makers, and an extension was made in connection with this. The Gubin family was famous for its names. It is known that the eldest son of Gubin, also Alexander, became a well-known participant in the white movement in southern Russia, and the youngest daughter Eugene, in Glink's marriage, was a gifted pianist and vocalist. She owes the merit of organizing the first professional music school in Lipetsk, where she directed and taught solo singing until the mid-1920s.

In August 1917, the family of Major General A.M. Gubin voluntarily left their own house on Dvoryanskaya Street, transferring many things and items of furniture to the new government. The further fate of the last owner of the mansion is unknown. After the revolution, the Council of Workers' Deputies was located in the house of the noble estate, then the Council of Local People's Judges, and in 1918 the old building was transferred to the Commissariat for Military Affairs. In the 40-50s. XX century various institutions were located in the interiors of a noble mansion: continuing education courses for cultural workers, archives of a local history museum, a dormitory of a mining and metallurgical college, etc. In 1960, by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, the Gubin House was taken under state protection of republican significance as a historical monument.

In 1998, the building was transferred to an art gallery, which was organized in 1989 as a branch of the regional museum of local lore. Later, in 1992, the art gallery received the status of an independent institution. Only in 2005, after a complex and thorough restoration, reconstruction, the main interiors of the house regained their historical layout and the principle of enfilade. The historical color of the wall plaster was restored, hiding under thirty layers of the most varied painting, reflecting the entire course of recent history. The art gallery, which occupied the premises of the former mansion in the same 2005, may have resurrected the atmosphere of a noble house that has gone down in history, filled with majestic calm and solemnity. In 2012, the Lipetsk Regional Art Gallery acquired the status of the Lipetsk Regional Art Museum. It consists of two branches: the House of the Master - the museum of V. S. Sorokin and the art gallery to them. N. A. Sysoeva in the village of Leo Tolstoy, Lipetsk region. The art collection of one of the youngest museums in Russia totals more than 3,000 works of Russian painting, graphic art, sculpture and decorative and applied art from the 1930s to the 2000s. The museum organizes exhibitions from its own funds and accepts them from collections of both the country's leading museums: the A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Hermitage Museum, the State Museum of the East, and regional museums. Particular attention in organizing the exhibition activities of the museum is paid to traveling exhibitions in 18 districts of the Lipetsk region.

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