P. P. Bazhov House Museum

About museum

The museum is located in the birthplace of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov in the former workers' settlement of Sysert. The museum is a typical house-estate of an industrial worker of the Urals. It was in such an environment that the future writer's childhood took place. In 1870 Bazhov's parents bought an urban estate with numerous outbuildings. These included a six-window house facing the street, a bathhouse, a stable, barns, a carriage house, and an annex. In 1897 the house was lost in a fire, and the family moved into the annex, which in the Urals was known by the local term 'malukha'. In 1906 Bazhov moved his elderly mother to Yekaterinburg and sold the estate. Until 1980 it remained in private ownership. The museum was opened to visitors in 1982. The P. P. Bazhov House Museum in Sysert is a cultural monument of regional significance. The museum's exhibition, created in 1982 under the direction of the museum director L. A. Chesnova, is dedicated to the daily life of Sysert's inhabitants at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. In addition to the house itself, authentic outbuildings, service rooms and a vegetable garden have been recreated. The center of the estate is the annex 'malukha', consisting of a parlor, a kitchen, a pantry and an entryway. The garden adjoining the courtyard buildings is also part of the exhibition.