Attractions of Donetsk region

The memorial manor-museum of Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko and Mykola Korf in Neskuchne is dedicated to the life and work of these two outstanding personalities of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The museum was opened in 1992 in the estate of Baron Mykola Korf, an outstanding teacher and educator who founded about a hundred schools in the Katerynoslav province. The estate was inherited by his daughter Kateryna, who married director, playwright and writer Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko. It was here that he wrote his best literary works and received permission from Anton Chekhov to stage his play "The Seagull".

The interior of the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated in the building, including the office of Nemyrovych-Danchenko, the rooms of his wife Kateryna and son Mykhaylo, as well as the living room.

The exposition presents personal belongings of the Korf and Nemyrovych-Danchenko families, costumes from the first Moscow Art Theater performance "Tsar Fedir" and others, items of theatrical props, theater posters, photographs and documents. The interior of a classroom at the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated.

The Manor Museum of Volodymyr Nemyrovych-Danchenko and Mykola Korf is a department of the Donetsk Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The estate is located on the territory of the park part of the landscape reserve "Neskuchne forest".

In 2022-2023, the museum was at the epicenter of the fighting during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The village was under constant artillery shelling and airstrikes from the Russian side, and the settlement was mined. The photo, published in the summer of 2023, shows the destroyed roof of the museum, as well as the destroyed two of the four walls. Part of the building was destroyed as a result of a direct hit by an artillery shell. The museum did not have time to evacuate - the communication routes with the village were cut off from the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, and the bridges were blown up.