F.M. Reshetnikov Museum

About museum

The museum recreates the postal homestead: the coachman’s room, where visitors can have a coachman-style meal; the stable with the famous horse Senya; the carriage shed with an authentic tarantas and elegant showy sledges; and a smithy with an anvil and forge — anyone may forge a nail or a horseshoe as a souvenir. Every summer the museum’s postal yard is transformed into an open-air theatre, with performances by O.S.T. and other theatre groups staged in natural scenery. Every winter the museum is filled with the special festive light of European and Russian Christmas, when Saint Nicholas arrives by reindeer and Frost (Moroz) with carolers comes on the famous Russian troika. The museum’s exhibition programme supports events in three main directions: literary themes; activities related to the history of the 19th-century postal service; and ethnographic festivities. The F.M. Reshetnikov Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ural writer F.M. Reshetnikov and the only museum in the Urals where the atmosphere of a mid-to-late 19th-century postal yard has been recreated.