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globetrott Says: There is a nice lake between the old town of Votkinsk, where the museum was made inside the house,where the composer Tchaikowski spent the first 8 years of his childhood and the new city of Votkinsk across the lake. This lake ends at the car-park where all tourist-buses will...
The museum is not only in the yellow house
globetrott Says: The museum of Votkinsk is not only in the yellow house, where Tchaikowski spent his childhood, but it consists also of some more wooden buildings and the small open house with the columns, that you will see on my 2nd and 4th photograph. Seems to be a place, where an...
interesting details in the museum
globetrott Says: The Tchaikovsky-museum is not only interesting for everybody, who is interested in the famous composer, but also for everybody who is interested to see how the everyday life was an the end of the 19th century in a wealthy family in Russia. You will see precious icons, great...
The monument for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
globetrott Says: The monument for Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (sometimes also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) is placed in front of the museum, that used to be the house where he was living the first 8 years of his life. Next to it is the lake and some benches,it is a fine place for a break...
a large room for the children to play
globetrott Says: There is a large room for the children to play and the most impressive toy is certainly that large doll for Tchaikovsky's sister Alexandra (Sascha), a doll that was certainly quite rare in ordinary families of the end of the 19th century. I am quite sure, not many of these...
globetrott Says: The diningroom is set up with great china and you certainly get a good feeling what it was like to enjoy dinner in a weathly home in Russia at the end of the 19th century. Tchaikovsky even had a nanny from France and in the age of 5 he began with piano-lessons, but soon he...
the big hall for music-performances
globetrott Says: There was no radio or TV at that time and so the big hall with the piano and other musical instruments was a perfect place to enjoy the evening, while listening to music performed by young Pjotr Illich Thaikovsky.Tchaikovsky's mother Aleksandra Andreevna d'Assier (1813-1854)...
Take a guided tour through the Tchaikowski-museum
globetrott Says: Take a guided tour through the Tchaikowski-museum, it seems to be the only way to see all the exhibits. Our guide was speaking an excellent german and there will be also guides speaking english and other languages and I had the feeling that in every room there was an extra...
globetrott Says: The yellow house was one of my favorite in Votkinsk, because of that rare extra window on top of the roof. Take a closer look at it and you will see the lovely extra-columns and the great ornaments around of it and around of the windows. My last photographs shows the first...
globetrott Says: Bibliotheka (library) is the inscription on this house and it is a good example for a russian word that is easy to understand, if you are able to read the cyrillic letters, because in german and Latin it is exactely the same word as in Russian. It is a nice wooden house with...
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I came to Votkinsky by a tourbus from Chaykovsky, that was part of the organized tours of our Cruiseship M/S Furmanov. The cruise from Perm to Moscow was called Tchaikovski-cruise, but except of the museum in Votkinsk and the short stay in the city of Chaykovsky, where our cruiseship had docked the 2nd day of our cruise, there was not a single thing that would give me an idea, why that cruise was called Tchaikovski-cruise.
For a cruise of 11 days I payed 2400 euros in the singlecabin, all transfers and flights from Vienna to Perm and home again from Moscow were included in that price. That same cabin is just 1700 euros, when you book in Germany and fly from Berlin.
Updated Aug 7, 2008
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globetrott Says: While in other parts of Russia these taditional wooden houses are mostly not mentioned at all by the local tourist-guides this seems to be a bit different in Votkinsk where they make the perfect surroundings of the Tchaikowsky-museum.
I saw 4 big blocks of ancient houses
globetrott Says: I saw 4 big blocks of ancient houses next to the Tchaikowski-museum and I could walk there easily within the spare-time of 30 minutes that we were given by our tourguide after the visit of the museum. There was a souvenirshop as well, But I prefered to take a closer look at...
globetrott Says: There are some interesting carriges inside a shed that you will pass by ,when leaving the museum about Tchaikosky. These carriages were the only kind of transportation in the time, when the famous composer spent 8 years of his childhood in Votkinsk and such carriages were...
a nice house on the way to the museum
globetrott Says: This is one of the 4 old wooden houses that you will pass by on your way from the large car-park to the Tschaikowsky-museum. It looks interesting because it is painted in different colors and it also has an interesting extra-window of the roof. In this part of Votkinsk you...
lots of lovely houses next to the museum
globetrott Says: Next to the Tschaikowsky-museum you will find lots of lovely houses like the ones on my photographs. All of them are inhabited and maintained in the most perfect way. But once again these buildings would never be a reason for a local tourguide to take us there, instead they...
globetrott Says: This small construction is next to the Tschaikowski-museum in the backpart of the park and also looking over to the backstreet, where I have taken my pics 1 & 3-5.It might have been a covered place for the orchestra when performing works of Tschaikowsky in that park.
globetrott Says: The modern city of Votkinsk is across the lake and unfortunately we did see it just from that large distance from the car-parking-area next to the Tschaikowski-museum.There are a few interesting buildings close to the lake, one of them looks a bit like a greek temple with...
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At the lake of Votkinsk you will be able to do all sorts of watersports, you will be able to rent boats or go swimming in summer. In early May of 2008, when I came to Votkinsk it was still a bit too chilly for swimming, but in July and August this might be a perfect place for watersports.
Equipment: Rent a boat in a distance of just 50 meters from the place, where the tourist-buses will park.
You will NOT find lockers for your clothings, but a lot of space to go swimming at a smooth beach.
Updated Aug 7, 2008
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The birthplace of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk and spent the first 8 years of his life there, before his parents moved first to Moscow and later to St. Petersburg. In an interesting museum you will...
Due to work, I finally had a chance to visit at least a small part of Russia. The Birthplace of the composer Tschaikovsky: Votkinsk. It is in the Republic of Udmurtia, some 600 miles east of Moscow....
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