Exhibition of the V. O. Klyuchevsky Memorial House-Museum

About exhibition

"The House of Russian History" — as the V. O. Klyuchevsky Museum in Penza is often called — was the first in the country dedicated to the scholar-historian. It was opened in 1991 on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841–1911) — a doctor of Russian history, an academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, a professor at Moscow University and the Moscow Theological Academy, and the author of the famous 'Course of Russian History'. The exhibition is housed in two historic buildings on Klyuchevsky Street (formerly Popovka) in the city's historic center. This corner of Penza is one of the few preserved areas of wooden urban architecture from the 19th to the early 20th century. Klyuchevsky himself called the street "a village in the center of the city." The main exhibit is the Klyuchevsky family house itself — a monument of history and culture of federal significance. The pride of the museum collection is a unique set of personal belongings and rare lifetime editions of the great historian's works. For information call: +7 (8412) 54-38-01.