Pavlik Morozov Museum

About museum

In 1939 the first museum exhibition was arranged in the Morozov family home, reflecting the events of 1932 that took place in the village of Gerasimovka, Tavdinsky District — the murder of the Morozov brothers. Since then the museum has been in continuous operation. In 1948 the exhibition was moved to a two-story wooden building constructed in 1910, the former 1930s school where Pavlik Morozov, his brothers and their peers studied. Today the museum's exhibition is displayed in four halls. Visitors learn about the settlement of the region during the Stolypin reforms by peasant settlers from Belarus at the beginning of the 20th century, and about the participation of residents of the Gerasimovka village council in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). Exhibitions have been organized: one of them, "Royal Children, Peasant Children," tells of two tragedies that occurred in the country in 1918 and in 1932. The second exhibition, "Guilty Without Guilt," reflects a difficult period for the peasantry — the repressions during collectivization. The interior of the classroom from the former school in this building has been preserved.