Trubetskoy House-Museum Exhibition

About exhibition

The Trubetskoy House-Museum features a permanent exhibition that tells the story of the Siberian fate of Decembrist S. P. Trubetskoy and his family. The life of this man reflects, as in a drop of water, the fate of an entire generation of Decembrists. A Russian prince, a Life Guards colonel, and a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns, he became one of the leaders of secret societies and the leader of the uprising on Senate Square; he was convicted and spent 30 years in Siberia (11 of them in Irkutsk). A loving husband and father, during this period he buried three of his young children and his beloved wife; he gave his three daughters an excellent upbringing and education and saw them married. The exhibition is located on the basement (cellar) and the first (residential) floor of the house-museum. The rooms on the residential floor are arranged enfilade. Here the typical interiors of a mid-19th-century noble house are recreated, and memorial items of the Trubetskoy family and other Decembrists are displayed. The historical exhibition in the semi-basement (cellar) tells of the thirteen years of penal servitude and the Decembrists' subsequent settlement in Siberia. An admission ticket to the museum's exhibition also grants access to temporary exhibitions. Inquiries: ticket office phone +7 (3952) 29-26-63.