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Presentation of the project of the European House of Music (CEM) took place at the estate of Ivan Turgenev in the French city of Bougival, the Russkiy Ochevidets writes. It is planned that it will turn into a space uniting many generations, different genres and different arts.
According to the initiator of the project, an opera singer from Portugal Jorge Chaminé, it will become a center of music, literature and science. And the best possible way, he is sure, the city located near Paris is suitable for these purposes. In the century before last, the singer recalled, creative life was in full swing there. The great Russian writer lived in la datcha «Les Frênes», the French composer Georges Bizet spent the last months of his short life there. The building, which was bought and put in order by the city authorities, is literally across the road from the Turgenev estate.
Jorge Chaminé believes that the project should combine two cultural and historical monuments.
Russkiy Mir reported that the estate belonged to singer Pauline Viardot. Turgenev acquired it for her. He himself lived in this French city from 1873 until his death. he built a small French house there - la datcha «Les Frênes». The room subsequently became the Turgenev Museum.
Last year, France organized a special national lottery, the funds from which will be used to restore historical monuments. The estate in Bougival was included in this list.
French President Emmanuel Macron also visited the place. He called this historical monument "a symbol of wide Europe, stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals." Two days ago, in Bougival, in the Turgenev estate, a ceremony was held at which the mayor of the city Luc Wattelle announced the beginning of the restoration of the house of Pauline Viardot.
Russkiy Mir
