KALUGA REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM

  Members from Kaluga’s Academic Archives Commission created this museum, which first opened to the public in 1897 at the 17th-century Korobov Chambers.
The contemporary museum now occupies four buildings:
  -- Zolotarev Estate -- Built in 1808 in the Russian classicism style, part of the palace buildings of the Moscow school of design in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  -- Korobov Chambers – Built in 1697 and carrying the name of the merchant-class family, the chambers are a monument to civil architecture is a type of wood cabin with a porch. The building is Kaluga’s last example of 17th-century architecture.
  -- Batenkov House – A one-story wood house built in the 19th century, it became a museum in 2006 and houses an exhibition about the 1825 Decembrist revolt in Kaluga against Tsar Nikolai’s assumption to the Throne.
  -- Bilibin House – A three-story townhouse, built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Address: ul. Pushkina 14, Kaluga.

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