I.S. Turgenev House-Museum was opened on the 9th of October 2009. In this mansion Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova lived in the middle of the 19th century (from 1840 to 1850). She was mother of the great Russian writer I.S. Turgenev. More than once the writer himself visited this house - memorial boards on the fa?ade of the house could be the evidence to this fact. This very house is described in the famous narrative "Mumu" and the prototype of the willful mistress who made the yardman Gerasim get rid of "a harmful dog" was Varvara Petrovna herself as in real life she was such a powerful lady of the manor