Exhibitions of the F. N. Solodov Mansion

About exhibition

Visitors can see the interiors of the historic merchant mansion of F. N. Solodov, built to a design by city architect N. A. Doroshenko. They have the opportunity to admire the molded plaster decoration of halls styled in various traditions: traditional Russian architecture, Renaissance, and Classicism. The mansion also offers open-storage rooms: "Porcelain and Faience" (items from the 18th and 21st centuries, including an order service from the era of Catherine II and agitational Soviet porcelain of the early 20th century, as well as tableware from the Rostov Trading House of S. I. Velikanov); "Music Parlor" (sound-producing instruments and audio carriers of the 19th–20th centuries, sheet music by A. Vertinsky, music boxes, a mechanical piano, a barrel organ by Nakhichevan master Ivan Sulimenko, and Russian, German, and Armenian folk instruments); and "Household Metal" (Russian copper and brass samovars stamped by famous factories such as V. S. Batashev and others).