N. G. Chernyshevsky House-Museum
About museum
In Alexandrovsky Zavod the Memorial House-Museum named after N. G. Chernyshevsky was opened — a monument of republican significance, located on a street bearing the name of the great thinker and democrat, the "rebel of the entire Russian Empire." Nikolai Gavrilovich was sentenced to seven years of penal servitude for attempting to change the order and incite an uprising. Of those seven years he spent five in the prison of Alexandrovsky Zavod. In 1867 Chernyshevsky was fortunate to be allowed to go into "free settlement" after serving half his term for good behavior. He was given the house of the deacon of the local church, built in 1860. Today it houses a local history museum dedicated to the life and work of Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky.