Tchaikovsky in Wotinsk
The series about historical places of opera art & culture. Get to know exciting excursion and travel ideas for opera lovers. This time: Tchaikovsky in Wotinsk.
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Tchaikowsky in Votkinsk
The museum was built on the estate where Tchaikovsky spent his first 8 years. The father was assigned a stately home as a factory manager.
We know a lot from this period, as Peter’s nanny Fanny Dürbach reported from this time in her memoirs. He kept in touch with her and visited her in Montbéliard in 1892.
Destination Tchaikovsky Museum Votinsk
The museum rivaled the larger Tchaikovsky Museum in Klein near Moscow for exhibits. The main exhibits are a piano on which Tchaikovsky began composing as a teenager, as well as furniture and toys.
The view of the lake is very beautiful, the idyll disturbed in the 20th century when Votinsk served as a production site for Soviet nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, and so did not even appear on maps, let alone in guidebooks. That has changed since Russian independence. In recent years, over 100,000 people have visited the site.
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