Stepanov Family Memorial Homestead

About museum

In a picturesque steppe corner near Timashevsk stands the House-Museum and memorial homestead of the Stepanov family, included in the list of the Seven Pearls of Kuban and granted the status of "Object of Traditional Folk Culture of Krasnodar Krai." In the compound's administrative building there is an exhibition called "Maternal Glory," which presents unique exhibits and commemorates the deeds of mothers. Here visitors can learn about the everyday life of the Stepanov family, as well as trace how the maternal heroism of Epistinia Fyodorovna was promoted. The exhibition features a table, a samovar, a chest, a spinning wheel, a child's cradle, a pendulum clock, a sewing machine, chintz curtains, a woman's costume, and materials about mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan and Chechnya, mothers of large families, participants of the Great Patriotic War, and others.