Tula land is famous for its literary talents. Many famous writers were born here. Among them are Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev, Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky, Andrey Timofeevich Bolotov. The creative path of a number of writers is also connected with the Tula land. These are Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.
On the territory of Tula province, in the village of Kropotovo, there was the estate of the great Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. In the very south of the region, in Yefremovsky district, in 1797, the writer's grandfather acquired the estate. Despite the fact that the estate's territory was quite large, it did not generate much income.
In 1811, the estate went to Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, the poet's father. However, Yuri Petrovich permanently settled there only in 1817, after the birth of his son and the death of his wife. Relations with Yuri Petrovich's mother-in-law did not go well immediately, and by agreement with her, he had to leave the rich Tarkhany estate in Kropotovo.
Young Mikhail Yuryevich saw his father very rarely, because his grandmother was against Yuri Petrovich's communication with his son. However, the young poet still visited Kropotovo, with which he had fond memories of his father and walks along poplar alley. They inspired Mikhail Yurievich to create such works as: "To genius", "Tree", "Don't attract me with beauty".
Yuri Petrovich died in 1831, when Mikhail was only 16 years old. Kropotovo was a manor house with a small one-story manor house and relatively wealthy peasant families who remembered the writer's father.: "A kind, even very kind gentleman." The estate was resold several times, after the revolution it remained intact, being already on the territory of the Lipetsk region. However, in 1941 it was barbarously burned by the Germans retreating from Kropotovo. Now there are only ruins on the site of the estate.
