In the room of Khristina Sergeyeva-Tsenskaya, there is a walnut desk on four massive carved legs with two locking drawers. The middle of the tabletop is covered in brown leatherette. The wooden edges of the lid are ornately shaped. The connecting pieces, legs and three beams at the bottom are decorated with carved floral patterns.

This is the desk where Khristina Sergeyeva-Tsenskaya used to work. On the desk, there is a plaster bust of Leo Tolstoy and a marble lamp — a gift from the Leonov family with an engraved inscription, “To our dearest Aunt Khrista on her birthday from Yasha and Marusya 19.02.59.”

Khristina Sergeyeva-Tsenskaya took care of all household chores and interactions with the outside world so that her husband could fully devote himself to writing the epic “Russia’s Transfiguration”, which he considered his life’s work. She always accompanied Sergeyev-Tsensky on his trips around the country, attended business meetings, found the necessary work materials, interacted with the writer’s publishers, managed bank accounts and financial affairs, sorted through the incoming correspondence before giving it to the writer and received guests at their home. Like her husband, she worked very hard, managing the house, the garden and all renovations.

Khristina Sergeyeva-Tsenskaya greatly contributed to the restoration of the house, destroyed during the war, and the landscaping of the estate. After the writer’s death, she made major home improvements and took an active part in converting the house into a museum. She was a patroness of an orphanage in Alushta, just like Sergeyev-Tsensky had been before. There is a present on the desk from the pupils of the orphanage — a vase with the inscription “To our dearest Khristina Mikhaylovna for her daily care and attention.”