Memorial museum-apartment of Y.P. Spegalsky

About museum

The only museum in Russia dedicated to an architect-restorer — the memorial museum-apartment of Y.P. Spegalsky, whose work is associated with two cities: Pskov and Leningrad.
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\r\nIn 1937−1938 he carried out repair work by rope-access techniques, without scaffolding, on six churches; in the 1950s–1960s he took part in the restoration of St. Isaac's, Peter and Paul, and Smolny Cathedrals, the Alexander Column, and other architectural monuments.
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\r\nIn 1986, through the efforts of Olga Konstantinovna Arshakuni (1908−1991) — the widow of Y.P. Spegalsky — and the Pskov Museum-Reserve, the Memorial Museum-Apartment of Y.P. Spegalsky was opened. He was a researcher of medieval architecture, an architect-restorer, the founder of the Pskov Restoration Workshops (1946), an artist, and a master of decorative and applied arts.
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\r\nHis study contains a library with rare publications on art, history, and local lore. Also kept here is the doctoral dissertation of the American scholar Larry V. Kotren 'Y.P. Spegalsky and the Ancient Stone Architecture of Pskov'.