pushkin grigory alexandrovich married varvara melnikova, then, as you know, they moved to live in the markutyakova and ... at that time the centenary of alexander sergeevich pushkin was approaching, in 1899 at the request of the great prince konstantin konstantinovich, who was the president of the academy of sciences and who headed the commission for the celebration of the centenary of alexander sergeevich pushkin, this was the first such holiday at the state level, the first pushkin anniversary, and so, at his request, grigory alexandrovich agreed to sell. to the treasury of the state, mikhailovskoye , bidding farewell to mikhailovsky, as residents recalled, he knelt down, bowed, kissed the ground, and left with tears in his eyes, but he left, taking with him everything that he it seemed valuable, firstly, those wallpapers that were woven by the peasant women of the village of mikhailovskoye, he... that when he died, and he was buried there in markuch in 1906, his widow , from time to time, came to st. petersburg, brought those things that still remained from pushkin and her letters to the he