In Kaluga, restoration work has begun on the Countess Salias House, a landmark cultural heritage site of regional significance built in the last third of the 18th century.

The early classicist-style city estate did not stand out from similar buildings until 1886, when it was acquired by its new owner, writer and countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias-de-Tournemir, sister of the outstanding playwright A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. The countess was always at the center of social life, and her son, Evgeny Andreevich Salias, went down in literary history as the “Russian Alexandre Dumas.”