Chukhlomsky Local History Museum named after A.F. Pisemsky

About museum

In the town of Chukhloma, located on the shore of Lake Chukhlomskoye in Kostroma Oblast, 172 km from Kostroma, a museum was founded in 1919. It is associated with the Decembrist poet P. A. Katenin, whose family owned several estates here. In 1945 the museum was named after A. F. Pisemsky by decision of the city and district Soviets of Working People's Deputies. It is housed in a two-story brick building built in 1916 and was founded by a group of local historians with funds from the Uyezd Department of Public Education. The museum's displays include a collection of portraits of the former owners of the Kluseevo estate, household utensils, furniture, traditional women's headdresses, 19th-century peasant women's clothing, and ethnographic items of rural household life.