Sukhanov Family Memorial House-Museum

About museum

In Russia there is the only museum of a tsarist official, which is one of the few 19th-century wooden mansions remaining in Vladivostok. For a quarter of a century the family of Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhanov, Senior Adviser of the Primorsk Regional Administration, lived here. In 1891 he received a portrait and gold monogrammed watches from Tsarevich Nicholas himself as a token of gratitude for the excellent condition of the roads and the order in the district. The museum was opened in 1977 because of one of the Sukhanov children — Konstantin, a well-known revolutionary and the first head of the Vladivostok Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. The museum displays household items, imperial gifts and other objects that allow visitors to learn about the everyday life of a Russian official at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries.