Exhibition 'Lefortovo. Milestones of History'

About exhibition

The museum's permanent exhibition is dedicated to the history of the district and its landmarks, as well as the fates of Peter I's closest associates: Franz Lefort, Jacob Bruce, Nicholas Bidloo, Alexander Menshikov and others. The museum displays reproductions of portraits of the emperor and his associates, and houses a unique collection of original historical weapons: a Western European wheellock carbine from the late 16th century, a 6-pounder cannon from the Great Northern War, a hand grenade from the early 18th century, an Arabic matchlock musket, a yataghan (approximately late 18th century), a Russian army flintlock musket of 1814, pistols with flintlock and percussion-cap mechanisms, and much more. Particularly valuable exhibits include the seal of the Bruce family and an authentic women's dress with a Watteau pleat from 1752. The exhibition also contains early 18th-century household items: a jewelry box, a candlestick, a salt cellar, smoking pipes, and a fragment of parquet flooring from the house of the Dutch physician Zacharias Van der Ghulst.