Exhibition of the Museum of Merchants and Social Classes

About exhibition

The museum exhibition is housed in a typical 19th-century merchant mansion that belonged to the merchant A. N. Zausaylov. The museum building itself is of great historical value as a cultural heritage site of regional significance. The exhibition is located on three floors and spans more than a century — from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Unique artifacts and documents from the museum's collection tell the story of the city's significant events in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as its cultural and economic development. Visitors can step into a merchant's shop and a period pharmacy. The furnishings of each room on the second floor are arranged according to their original residential functions: entrance hall, study, boudoir, hall, dining room, parlor-playroom, nursery, and servant's room. The rooms on the museum's third floor tell about the social estates of pre-revolutionary Yelets. Here you can see a peasant izba, admire the nobility's collections, visit the craft salons of the townspeople, and explore Orthodox sacred relics.