In the valley among picturesque mountains lies the ancient village of Aksakovo, founded in the 1760s by Stepan Mikhailovich Aksakov Bagrov, the grandfather of the famous writer. The Aksakov estate has preserved a manor park with a two-hundred-year-old linden alley, old healing pines, and willows that grow by the round Lake of Love, which has also existed for over two hundred years, as well as the Buguruslan River and a pond with Chelyaevskaya Mountain. These places have witnessed the lives and dreams of four generations of the Aksakov family.

On the estate's territory, there are preserved outbuildings, utility structures, and cellars. On the site of the old foundation, a one-story house of the Aksakovs was restored in 1998, made of thick pine logs, with two grand porches and a gazebo-rotunda facing the park. The house is divided by a corridor into two enfilades, which recreate the life of provincial gentry. Among the exhibits of the house-museum are carefully preserved authentic items of the Aksakov family and objects from that time: furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, dishes from the Gardner and Kuznetsov companies, photographs, documents, and books by S. T. Aksakov from various years.

The exhibition reflects the pages of the writer's life: his childhood, youth, early years of family life, and the birth of children in his grandfather's house, Konstantin, Vera, Olga, and Grigory. Materials about the descendants of S. T. Aksakov are also presented, including Grigory's daughter Olya, to whom her grandfather dedicated the fairy tale "The Scarlet Flower," and his son Sergey Grigoryevich, the only continuation of the lineage.