Museum of the History of Russia's First Resort 'Marcial Waters'

About museum

The history of Marcial Waters is inextricably linked with the name of Peter I. In 1714, Ivan Reboev, a worker at the Konchezersky factory, discovered a spring whose waters brought him healing. Peter built a palace near the spring and personally visited the first Russian resort. After Peter's death the resort was forgotten, and only the Church of the Apostle Peter has survived to the present day. On March 22, 1946, the Council of People's Commissars of the Karelian-Finnish SSR adopted a decree organizing the Petrov Museum in the village of Dvortsy, Petrovsky District. On July 25, 1948, the museum was opened to the public. In 1955 the museum-reserve became part of the State Local History Museum of the Karelian ASSR. Today the Museum of the History of Russia's First Resort 'Marcial Waters' comprises: the house-museum, a pavilion over the former medicinal spring, a pavilion over the ore extraction site, the Church of the Apostle Peter, and the 'Petrovskie Vody' park. All of this recalls Peter I, who wished to have in Russia his own resort comparable to those in Europe.