V. I. Lenin House-Museum in Samara

About museum

The V. I. Lenin House-Museum in Samara is a branch of the Samara Regional Historical and Local Lore Museum and has federal significance. It is located on the grounds of a former 19th-century urban merchant estate and includes the house, outbuildings and garden. In 1890–1893 the family of V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) lived here, and during this time he prepared for and passed external examinations for the course of the Faculty of Law of the St. Petersburg Imperial University. It was also during this period that Lenin's worldview began to take shape. In 1940 the house was converted into a museum, and in 1970 the memorial domestic interior of the Ulyanov family's apartment was restored on the second floor. The first floor houses a scholarly-documentary exhibition dedicated to Lenin's Samara period. In 1986–1989 the museum services were moved out of the memorial house into a separate building, which was connected to the Rytikov House by an underground passage. Thus, a museum complex convenient for visitors was created.