Exhibition of the Lazhechnikov Merchants' Estate

About exhibition

When was the 'golden age' of Kolomna's merchant class? How did wealthy merchants arrange their household life? Who were the Lazhechnikov merchants and how is the first Russian novelist Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov connected to them? The exhibition of the Lazhechnikov merchants' estate — an architectural monument of the 18th–19th centuries located in Kolomna's historic district near the Kremlin — will help answer these and many other questions. This is the only museum in Russia devoted to the writer I. I. Lazhechnikov; his childhood and youth were spent here. You will find authentic objects, documents and books from the 18th–19th centuries that tell about the environment and family in which I. I. Lazhechnikov's talent was formed, and about the writer himself. The display includes the literary works that made him famous across Russia and attracted the personal attention of A. S. Pushkin, Emperor Nicholas I, and the leading literary figures of the first half of the 19th century, as well as awards and editions published during his lifetime.