Exhibitions of the Museum of the History of Fruit Growing of the Middle Urals

About exhibition

In the former living rooms of the two-story mansion — the entrance hall and the parlor — there is a memorial exhibition dedicated to plant breeder and children's author Dmitry Ivanovich Kazantsev. An accountant by profession and a gardener by vocation, he bought this house in 1913. Many of Dmitry Ivanovich's personal belongings and those of his wife and children have been preserved (a writing desk, bookcase, piano), along with household items of the Kazantsev family from the mid-1930s. The open-air exhibit — the orchard — was established by Kazantsev in 1914. He was the first in the Urals to cultivate frost-resistant varieties of apple, pear and plum. Apple trees planted by Dmitry Ivanovich himself in the 1920s–1930s still grow here. Despite their advanced age, the trees bear fruit almost every year. The garden also contains cherry, fig and apricot trees, flowers and even vegetables. The garden is open year-round, but the best time to visit is from April to October.