Opposite Deribezov's house on Dvoryanskaya Street there was a hotel building built by the merchant and cattle breeder Nikolai Ivanov. He was a passionate admirer of theatrical art, a patron of the arts, so he placed a small but very good stage in the hotel building. Ivanov, according to the memoirs of V.A. Gilyarovsky "People of the Theater" was a tall, well-dressed young man who often came to Tambov either to the theater or to the races, where horses bred at his stud farm and broken in by him participated in the races. Secretly from his rich mother, an Old Believer, he spent huge amounts of money on the theater. He transferred his expenses to accounts related to the payment of expenses for the stud farm. The latter hobby was not forbidden by his mother. One of the accounts shows that only 2,000 rubles out of 12,000 rubles were spent on horses, the rest was given to the artists who were touring in Borisoglebsk at the invitation of N. Ivanov. Here, in the theater, N. Ivanov met the brilliant actress Minskaya. Talented, with an unusually beautiful timbre of voice, slender as a statuette, Minskaya struck N. Ivanov's imagination. True, Ivanov's mother, a woman of the old foundations, did not want to hear anything about her son's union with the actress. For 8 years they could not unite themselves in marriage, but all this time Nikolai followed his beloved and was always ready to share her success or failures. And when he was far from her, she received letters from him full of sincere delight, sympathy and love. Time did not erase their love. And even Ivanov's mother, touched by such deep feelings, eventually gave her consent to their marriage.

source: guideplus.ru/borisoglebsk/organizations/history

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