M.I. Kalinin House-Museum

About museum

On April 1, 1940, a house-museum belonging to the family of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875–1946) — a prominent state and party figure of the Soviet era and a native of the Tver region — was opened in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Kashinsky District. Built in 1916 and partially rebuilt in 1927, the house has a memorial character and has preserved its outbuildings: yard, entrance canopy, cellar, barn, well, and bathhouse (banya). In 1977–1987 the museum expanded with a branch in the People's House. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s it was temporarily conserved. During the Soviet period the museum was presented as historical-revolutionary; today it is memorial and largely ethnographic in character. The museum displays exhibitions in the residential rooms and houses memorial items, personal belongings of M.I. Kalinin, gifts from workers' and peasants' organizations, furniture used by the Kalinin family, and original family photographs.