Pryamukhino (russian: Прямухино) is a Russian village in the
Kuvshinovsky District
Kuvshinovsky District (russian: Кувши́новский райо́н) is an administrative and municipalLaw #4-ZO district ( raion), one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders with V ...
of the
Tver Oblast.
Geography
Pryamukhino is located on the
Osuga River, which flows towards the provincial capital of
Tver.
History
In 1779, the estate of Pryamukhino was acquired by Mikhail Vasilyevich Bakunin, a minor member of the
Russian nobility who had risen through the
Table of Ranks to become a
State Councillor for
Catherine the Great
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. Lacking in any further political ambition, Bakunin retired to Pryamukhino, where he raised three sons and five daughters. In 1803, Mikhail Vasilyevich Bakunin died, leaving the estate under the management of his third son,
Alexander Bakunin
Alexander Mikhailovich Bakunin ( – ) was a Russian diplomat, a prominent member of the Tver nobility, poet and publicist from the Bakunin family. The owner of the Pryamukhino estate, where he was visited by famous figures of Russian culture Vi ...
.
Mikhail Bakunin was born there.
References
Bibliography
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Rural localities in Kuvshinovsky District
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