The Green Sitting-Room

The Green Sitting-Room is located in the corner of the northern facade. In the time of the Boratynsky it was the poet's bedroom.
The main decoration of the room is a gilded mahogany furniture set in the Empire style, made in the 1820s in Russia. Russian origin of the set is revealed by the shape of the sofa sides. The resemble curved horse necks, which are a typical detail for Russian national art.
A refined chest of drawers with brass handles in the "Jacob" style dates to the early 19th century. On the chest there is a chariot-clock of gilded bronze and several candelabrums.
In the Green Sitting-Room there are several interesting portraits painted in different periods of time and relating to different styles. In the earliest painting - the portrait of Trubitsyn by an unknown artist of the 18th cent. We can see some features of a "parsuna", the Russian ceremonial portrait of the 17th cent.
The portrait of Tyutchev's aunt, Princess E.N. Mescherskaya with a romantic landscape on the background is a typical example of so-called "Provincial Sentimentalism". It was painted in 1807 by E. Shpazhinsky. Later Princess Mescherskaya took the veil and founded a monastery in her estate Anosino.
T.K. Makarov, a famous painter from Moscow, is the author of the portrait of D.I. Sushkova, Tyutchev's sister (in oils, 1840). The portrait of her husband N.V. Sushkov, the owner of a famous literary salon, was painted by a well-known portraitist V.A Tropinin.
Tn the house in Muranovo there are several portraits of regal persons, which was usual for Russian noble families. In the Green Sitting-Room it is a portrait of Catherine II by A. Rocelain, a Swedish painter who worked in Russia in 1775-1777.
Two watercolors representing the cabinet and the sitting-room in Sushkov's house in Minsk were painted by a self-taught artist S. Timofeev in 1841 and are real masterpieces of "primitive art".
The mingle of epochs and styles which was typical for the interior of Muranovo makes the house to keep up the way of everyday life of its former inhabitants.