Mikhailovskoe Slavic Scholars Program
Living Conditions and Work Environment
Program participants will live together in a guest house on the territory of the Mikhailovskoe museum-park complex. The house is located next to the ancestral estate of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and an 18th-century park established by the poet's grandfather O. A. Gannibal. Nearby is the famous Mikhailovskoe field, the site of the annual Pushkin Poetry Festival.
Click here to see pictures of the house - inside and out!
The rooms:
- 1st floor: 3 double-occupancy rooms with facilities*, 1 two-room (4 person) suite with facilities.
- 2nd floor: 2 double-occupancy with facilities, 1 four-person room with facilities, 1 double-occupancy and 1 triple-occupancy room with facilities nearby. Double-occupancy room on 2nd floor. Triple-occupancy room on 2nd floor.
* "facilities" = shower, toilet, television, telephone
Housing Details
- The not-in-room facilities on the 2nd floor consist of 2 showers and 2 toilets next door to the rooms.
- Hot water is not shut off.
- Rooms are equipped with 3-5 electrical outlets, bathrooms with 1.
- Sheets and towels are provided.
- Communal living room and kitchen are located on the first floor. The kitchen is equipped with stovetop, refrigerator, dishes, tea kettle. Click here to see the kitchen.
- An administrator, who will collect and return keys from occupants as they come and go, will be on duty 24 hours a day in the house.
Contact program coordinators Laura Little and Molly Thomasy at pushkin@slavic.wisc.edu
The 2007 Mikhailovskoe Slavic Scholars Program is a partnership between the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies (UW-Madison), and the Piligrim Humanitarian-Cultural Center in St. Petersburg.