After filming in Gorki and Kolomna, Kuskovo and Arkhangelsk, we decided not to stop there and go further. Or rather, do not even go, but go, because until the next stop - the museum-reserve V.D. Polenova - from Moscow, as it turned out, a hundred versts of the way. One hundred versts is not a detour when there is such beauty in front: a white house above the river, in the house there is wooden carved furniture, a flower garden under the windows, we decided. And let's go ... We traveled to Polenovo for a reason. We had a goal: to remove an alternative version of the "Elegy of the Russian Manor" - a theme announced this year at the All-Russian Florist Competition. The competition was scheduled in early September, right between September 1 and the Day of the city. We filmed at the end of August, it was logical to reason that the champion is still one of us (there were three contestants in the film crew). It remained to choose this very champion. Elegies failed. The house, built a hundred years ago by the artist Polenov, is very simple and concise, the least associated with elegy: there were no columns, no winged lions, no endless balustrades. There was a patter: grass in the yard, firewood on the grass. Polenovo, in one word. And the champion really was among us. Who - guess?The editors thank the staff of the State Memorial Historical-Art and Natural Museum-Reserve V.D. Polenova for help in shooting
Passing the gallery 
