A.V. Suvorov Manor Museum

About museum

Manor of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov in the village of Konchanskoye — the only one of Suvorov's estates that has survived to the present day. In the 18th century Konchanskoye was a Suvorov patrimony.
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\r\nThe manor became well known after it became the place of exile of the disgraced commander in 1797–1799. A.V. Suvorov, who had served Russia for almost half a century with selfless devotion, was dismissed from service by Emperor Paul I and exiled to the remote estate of Konchanskoye because he opposed the Prussification of the Russian army. From here, on 7 February 1799, the commander set off on the famous Italo–Swiss campaign, toward world fame.
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\r\nThe House-Museum of A.V. Suvorov in Konchanskoye was opened on 25 October 1942. Over its 70-year history the museum has been considerably transformed. In 1965 the commander's summer house — the svetlka, which had burned down in 1925 — was reconstructed. On 18 May 1975, in the restored and partially reconstructed building of the former stone Church of St. Alexander Nevsky, the picture-diorama exhibition "A.V. Suvorov's Alpine Campaign", created by battle painters A.I. Intezarov, P.T. Maltsev, and F.P. Usypenko, was opened to visitors.