Kobrin, which is in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, is truly a unique museum - extant peasant hut, where she was the nanny of Alexander Pushkin, Arina.

This woman knows, perhaps in the world by name. But as her surname, few can say. Babysitting Pushkin was born in the small village of Voskresensk, in the house of the castle Hannibal, Lukeria Kirillova and Rodion Yakovlev, April 10, 1758. When Arina was 10 years old, her father died and her mother was left alone with 7 children. Arina got married at 22, a resident of the neighboring village of Kobrin, Fyodor Matveyev, where, and moved to live.

His hut at Matveeva, who dreamed of their yards, it was not 15 years until in 1795 of Alexander's grandmother, Maria A. Hannibal, not gave them a small house.

Families Hannibal and Pushkin were familiar with the lively and eloquent peasant Arina Matveeva, long before the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Arina was a nurse, and the nurse, after Alexei, the nephew of Mary Alexeevna Hannibal. When in 1797 the couple Pushkin - Sobolev and Hope Osipovna - daughter Olga, the nurse and the nurse called her Arina Rodionovna.

In 1798, Pushkin decided to sell his possessions and left for Moscow. Arina offered to give his freedom. She was faced with a choice: either to go to a land with a masters in Moscow, or go back to the children in Kobrin, to work on their land as a free peasant. Not being confident in the future and worrying about the future of their four children, whom she visited in Kobrin, Arina went to Moscow. The benefit of this solution was simple - the serfs attached to the master's court was in a special position. In addition, with Pushkin she had agreed that in due course it will be able to transport to Moscow and their children. Six months after the departure to Moscow at the Pushkin had a son, Alexander. While Arina Rodionovna was 41.

Four years later, the husband died Arina. She applied for a permit to transport their children to Moscow to the owners. Once consent was obtained, the daughter of Mary and Hope and babysitting younger son Pushkin - Stefan moved to his mother. Arina's eldest son, Yegor, remained with his family in Kobrin.

It so happened that many generations of descendants Arina lived in a small hut of his famous relative. Only in 1950 the family of her descendants still decided to leave his native village. Their house was the oldest in Kobrin, and still, small upper room, as in the days of Alexander Pushkin, been heated in black.

In 1937, the 100th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin's nanny in the house opened the hut-reading room. After a while, the house bought Nyrkova Natalia M., who accidentally found out that it is for the house. She decided to open a museum. The exhibits collected the whole village. Restoration hut spent Union Museum of AS Pushkin Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, Gatchina museum and the local collective farm.

In 1974, after the restoration of the house-museum was opened. In the center of the hut - Russian stove, side by side, with the rough linen curtain - bed and suspended cradle. In the upper room - table with wood, bark, pottery. Along the walls - trunks and benches. In the "red" corner - a small iconostasis and lamp. Exhibits - typical for that time a peasant's hut decoration. They were donated to the museum by private individuals. The only thing that belonged to Pushkin's nanny - Torba of coarse linen.

Each year the museum is visited by thousands of tourists from around the world. For example, in 2008 it was visited by over 15 thousand people. The museum periodically undergo stylized excursions and small theatrical performances involving students and staff of the museum.