Memorial House of G. S. Batenkov
About museum
In 2006 the house of G. S. Batenkov was transferred to the Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore. More than 30 Decembrists were connected with the history of the Kaluga region. The most notable among them were P. N. Svistunov, E. P. Obolensky, G. S. Batenkov, S. N. Kashkin, M. F. Orlov, K. A. Okhotnikov, A. Ya. Mirkovich. Many of them chose Kaluga after the 1856 amnesty. The house on Dvoryanskaya Street was inhabited by the Decembrist Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov. He was an engineer, architect, mathematician, publicist and writer. Friends and associates of Batenkov often visited the house on Dvoryanskaya Street.