Rimsky-Korsakov Street: the Composer's House Museum and Floodgates

One of the central streets of the town is named in honor of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, an outstanding Russian composer and conductor. He was born and lived till the age of 12 here, on the bank of Tikhvinka River, in house number 12. His wooden one-storey house with a mezzanine, front porch and figured windows was built in the beginning of the XIX century and has survived to our days. It was in it that in 1944 Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum was opened. Thanks to the fact that family relics and objects of everyday life were donated to the museum by the descendants of the conductor, the interiors of the rooms have been very accurately restored here. But the most valuable exhibit is the grand piano of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, playing which he created and performed his music for more than thirty years.

Many dilapidated sluices and dams on Tikhvinka, which are visible from the embankment, remind that in the XIX century the river was part of the Tikhvin water system that connected the Volga with the Baltic Sea. It was used for cargo delivery and passenger transportation. Ships overcame the waterway for about a month. Since 1968 the waterway has been completely abandoned. But now negotiations are underway for its partial restoration. The reconstruction of the wooden sluice, which functions as a bridge across the river, began. It is located not far from the Assumption Monastery.