G.V. Plekhanov House-Museum

About museum

The idea to create a museum dedicated to the prominent figure of the Russian and international labour movement G. V. Plekhanov belongs to Mikhail Pavlovich Trunov — the founder and first director of the Lipetsk Museum of Local Lore. On June 1, 1928 the Plekhanov Historical-Revolutionary Museum was opened. In 1954 the museum was reorganized and all exhibits were transferred to the Lipetsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. The museum's rebirth took place on December 24, 1977. In 2015 a modern exhibition was constructed and was solemnly opened on December 29. It consists of two parts. The first is located in the manor house and is devoted to the history of the family and Georgy's childhood years. The second part tells about G. V. Plekhanov — a revolutionary populist (1876–1880). It presents Plekhanov's early theoretical works, leaflets produced in connection with strikes and workers' unrest, and materials about the split of "Land and Liberty". In the wing the interior of Georgy Valentinovich's study in Geneva has been recreated, where he spent the last few years of his emigration.