V. I. Lenin's Apartment Museum

About museum

The V. I. Lenin Museum is located in the house of merchant P. Chernov at 3 Lenina Street, on the third floor in the apartment of pharmacist K. V. Lurya, where Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov lived in 1900. The museum was opened in 1930, and in 1970, on the 100th anniversary of V. I. Lenin's birth, the apartment layout was restored. It displays household items and genuine belongings of the Ulyanov family, for example, an old traveling chest from the Kremlin. Since 2001 the museum has begun to present life in the Pskov Governorate and the city of Pskov in the 19th–early 20th centuries. It features exhibits, portraits and photographs and even a copy of V. I. Lenin's letter to A. N. Potresov "I Dream of Pskov." The museum provides information about the socio-economic situation of the Pskov Governorate on the eve of V. I. Lenin's arrival, about his stay in exile in Shushenskoye and about his intention after the end of exile to settle in Pskov. The museum displays items that allow visitors to feel the atmosphere of that time.