Peredelkino

Peredelkino (Russian: Переде́лкино, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈdʲelkʲɪnə]) is a dacha complex situated just to the southwest of Moscow, Russia.

House-museum of Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino

History

The settlement originated as the estate of Peredeltsy, owned by the Leontievs (maternal relatives of Peter the Great), then by Princes Dolgorukov and by the Samarins. After a railway passed through the village in the 19th century, it was renamed Peredelkino. In 1934, Maxim Gorky suggested handing over the area to the Union of Soviet Writers. Within several years, about fifty wooden cottages were constructed in Peredelkino by writers to German designs.

The arrest of author and playwright Isaak Babel, one of the most notorious events of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, took place in Peredelkino on May 15, 1939.[1] Babel was then taken by automobile to the Lubyanka Prison, tortured, and shot by the NKVD.

Peredelkino is presumably the source for the name of Mikhail Bulgakov's Perelygino. But, Bulgakov places his Perelygino on the Klyazma, Bolshevo, which is where another writers' colony was.[2]

See also

References
  1. Antonina Pirozhkova, At His Side; The Last Years of Isaac Babel, page 115.
  2. "Master: Peredelkino". Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. Middlebury College. Retrieved 2009-04-06.

Further reading
  • Lev Lobov and Kira Vasilyeva. Peredelkino. A Tale of the Writers' Village. Moscow, 2011. - 580 pp.; 380 images. ISBN 978-5-91187-139-0
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