Bolshoye Boldino

Bolshoye Boldino is a village in the countryside southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, long associated with the Pushkin family. Records of 1585 name the voivode Eustafiy Pushkin as its holder, and the estate remained in the family for generations. In the autumn of 1830 Alexander Pushkin stayed at Boldino during a cholera quarantine. There he completed Eugene Onegin and the Tales of Belkin, among many other works, making his stay one of the most celebrated periods of Russian literary creation.