In the picturesque Professors’ Corner — the most beautiful sight of Alushta, there are several other significant places for the city and its guests. First of all, these are the houses and estates built in the late XIX — early XX centuries, where famous representatives of science and art lived, and where personal belongings of many famous people have been preserved.
One of such houses is the Literary Memorial Museum of S. N. Sergeyev-Tsensky, a famous Russian writer-novelist, author of famous historical novels. Surrounded by a shady park-garden, the house has the largest collection of materials related to the life and work of Sergeyev-Tsensky. Interestingly, the garden was almost entirely created by the writer himself on a vacant lot.
The house on Eagle Mountain, where the writer lived and worked in 1906-1958, was built in 1906. Here the author wrote his most famous works:
«Sevastopol Suffering» and the novel-epic «Transfiguration of Russia», consisting of 12 novels, 3 novellas and 2 sketches, as well as many other works. A. Kuprin, I. Shmelev, K. Chukovsky, M. Gorky, S. Marshak and other famous figures visited this house many times.
The Great Patriotic War the house of Sergeyev-Tsensky did not survive — it was destroyed by the Germans, and the writer from 1942 to 1945 years did not live here, but in 1946 the building was restored in its former form. And so it has reached our days: living room, library, study, room of the writer’s wife and dining room — everything to this day remains the same as it was during the writer’s lifetime, who wished not to part with his favorite place even after his death. S. N. Sergeyev-Tsensky is buried here, not far from the house, in his garden, and there is a monument over his grave. As before, the house is surrounded by three verandas, one of which — the southern one, A. Kuprin called «pedometer» because the writer liked to walk here when he was thinking about his works. The other two — the western and eastern ones — now house a literary exposition.
The museum was opened in the house of S. N. Sergeyev-Tsensky in 1962, and the building is included in the list of objects of cultural heritage of Crimea. The funds of the museum are more than 22 thousand exhibits related to the life and work of the writer. Not only manuscripts and documents of the writer are preserved here, but also his favorite paintings — I.E. Repin, S. Semiradsky, S. Kolesnikov. The pearl of the museum is the writer’s personal library, which contains more than 10 thousand books, including unique and rare editions.
The S. N. Sergeyev-Tsensky Literary and Memorial Museum is a neighbor of another attractions of Alushta, the museum of writer I.S. Shmelev. In Alushta — a small city with a rich history, you can always see such a neighborhood, one interesting attraction is next to another, no less attractive to the guests of the city, so going on vacation in Crimea, each person gets a unique opportunity to see many objects of cultural, architectural and natural value at once.