Kologriv Local History Museum

About museum

In 1914 the artist Gennady Alexandrovich Ladyzhensky founded a private museum in Kologriv. In 1918, after the Soviet regime came to power, the museum was reorganized into a state art and history museum. It included paintings, antiquities, a collection of weapons, carpets, porcelain and bronze. In 1919, on the recommendation of F. S. Chumbarov-Luchinsky, a second museum — a local history museum — was opened, based on the collection of local historian V. P. Chistyakov. In 1921 the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) of the RSFSR placed the museum's valuables under protection, and on 18 February the museum was issued a protection certificate and assigned the house of the millionaire Makarov. In 1925 the two museums were merged, and their address became Makarov's house. In the 1930s–1940s the museum continued to operate actively, collecting and exhibiting items characterizing life in pre-revolutionary Russia, as well as fossilized body parts and shells of marine animals of the Jurassic Sea, mammoth bones and cave bear remains found in the Kologriv district.