Decembrists Museum is one of the most visited cultural attractions of Irkutsk. As we know from Russian history, after the uprising on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg (and it was in 1825), many participants in the coup d'etat were deported to Siberia. The Decembrist conspirators, along with their families, were sent into exile in remote Irkutsk. So, the rest of my days here have lived Trubetskoy, Volkonsky, Mouravievs, Yushnevsky ... Their estates and objects of everyday life and became the basis of the Irkutsk Museum of the Decembrists.

in the center of the city and includes two manors, which have become memorial. In these houses lived princes Sergei Trubetskoi and Sergei Volkonsky with wives and children. Although houses are located at different addresses (house-museum Volkonsky Volkonsky is in lane 10, and Trubetskoys mansion - on the street Dzerzhinsky, 64.), The distance between them - a stone's throw

The Decembrists Irkutsk museum retains many original things and. interior items of noble families. So, visitors can familiarize themselves with the world's only existing pyramidal piano that belonged to Mary Volkonskaya

Memorial are open to visitors from 10 to 18 hours. In summer the museum of the Decembrists works until eight in the evening. Every Monday the house-museum of Volkonsky is closed for excursions. The Trubetskoy Manor does not work on Tuesdays, and in the winter even on Wednesdays.

Price of the question

Entrance ticket to the museum of the Decembrists in Irkutsk costs 200 rubles, for students - 100 rubles. (students of universities - for free), for pensioners - 70 rubles. and for schoolchildren - 15 rubles. Excursion service will cost 150 rubles. Photo and video shooting in the museum is paid - from 100 to 300 rubles

Address: Irkutsk, per. 10.

Decembrists Museum

House of the Decembrist of Trubetskoy, Museum of the Decembrists

Lampada, Decembrists Museum

Dress for a doll, Decembrists Museum

Six-Candle Chandelier, Decembrists Museum