Museum "Underground Printing House 1905–1906"

About museum

\r\nOne of Moscow's most unusual museums is located in the historic part of the city, in the former tenement house of Kuzma Kolupayev. During the period of the First Russian Revolution (1905–1907) an illegal printing press operated here, hiding under the cover of the shop "Wholesale Trade of Caucasian Fruits Kalandadze." The museum has existed since 1924 and is devoted to the history of the illegal printing press, recreating details of a long-gone past. The museum displays the interiors of the salesroom, the apartment of the shop manager, and the underground printing press with the "Amerikanka" printing machine. Thematic exhibitions are also held here and feature films dedicated to memorable dates in Russian history. At the museum you can learn about the conditions and surroundings in which the underground activists worked, as well as about the life and everyday existence of Moscow's petty bourgeois and middle-class townspeople of the late 19th – early 20th century.