Penates Estate

The Penates estate in the Repino settlement on Primorskoye Highway, 411 is a museum of the artist Ilya Repin and a branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Repin lived here for 30 years, died in 1930, and was buried on the estate grounds, which he purchased in 1899 in the name of his second wife, Natalia Nordman. The park contains the "Homer's Square" clearing, decorated with granite boulders and tree roots, as well as the "Poseidon" well, the water from which the artist considered healing. After the destruction of 1944, when only the foundations and stove frames remained of the buildings, the restoration was carried out according to old photographs.