Teremok Bathhouse in Abramtsevo

A beautiful house in the style of Russian fairy tales was built in the Abramtsevo Estate in 1877, designed by architect Ivan Ropet. When Aksakov owned the estate, there was a bathhouse on this place. Mamontov also decided to build a bathhouse, but the house turned out to be very beautiful and it was called a Teremok Bathhouse. 

The Teremok Bathhouse is made in the pseudo-Russian style, which began to revive in those years. Most of these buildings were made of wood, so they have not survived to this day, but there were also stone ones, for example, the Nizhny Novgorod Fair or the Historical Museum in Moscow.  

Wooden logs and carved decor on the facade and inside the house have been preserved in their original form. For the first years, the Teremok was used as a bathhouse, but then it was reconstructed. As a result, there was made a guest wing, where numerous guests of Savva Mamontov stayed.  

Now there are exhibition halls in the Teremok Bathhouse, where you can see wooden carved objects of the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop. A significant part of them was carved by Elena Polenova, the younger sister of the artist Vasily Polenov. The furnaces in the Teremok Bathhouse, as in other houses of the Abramtsevo estate, are decorated with majolica made by Mikhail Vrubel.