The Gogolevo Village

The Gogolevo Village used to be the property of the Gogol family (the original family name is Yanovsky and that is why the village is also called as Yanovshchina - on behalf of Gogol's great-grandfather Jan).
Gogolevo and the near by hamlets and their inhabitants became prototypes of many of Gogol's heroes.
The homestead was built by Nikolai Gogol's parents in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In this manor Gogol spent his childhood and adolescence years. Nikolai kept returning here, engaged in various works on the improvement of the estate andvillage in general. He also helped the farmers. The last time Nikolai Gogol visited the ancestral estate in 1851 ...
During the Second World War the estate was almost completely destroyed.

In the early 1980's the Gogol-Jankowski farm stead was reconstituted according to the plans, memoirs, letters, old photographs, drawings and sketches of the writer. In 1984 the museum-reserve was opened.

Nowadays The NV Gogol reserve - a complexof reconstituted (house, outhouse, garden-park with small architectural objects) and reconstructed (the grave of the writer's parents) objects, as well as landscape and natural sites in an area of about 40 hectares. The museum collection consists of about 7000 units of exhibits. It includes written, pictorial, photographic and video material, thematic exhibits, decorative household items and others.