Main exhibition of the Historical and Art Museum

About exhibition

The history of the Mytishchi region reaches far back into the centuries; the halls of the permanent exhibition of the Mytishchi Historical and Art Museum introduce it. Within the city limits of Mytishchi lies the village of Tayninskoye (formerly Toninskoye), known since the early 15th century — the hereditary patrimony of the great Moscow princes and Russian sovereigns, which served as their country residence. The museum's exhibition presents materials on the medieval history of the area. Documentary materials tell about the construction of the first Moscow gravity-fed water supply (1779–1804), which provided the capital with drinking water from the famous Mytishchi springs. The "Estates" hall is devoted to places that preserve the memory of notable figures of Russian history and culture of the 18th–20th centuries. Particularly beautiful are the palace-and-park ensemble of the Marfino estate and the Nikolo-Prozorovskoye and Rozhdestveno-Suvorovo manors, which belonged to the family of the outstanding commander A. V. Suvorov. The fabulist I. A. Krylov spent two years in Vinogradovo; the Vitenyevo estate was owned for 15 years by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. L. N. Tolstoy’s stay in Mytishchi is reflected in the novel "War and Peace." The well-known painters V. G. Perov and V. I. Surikov worked on their classic canvases in Mytishchi. The exhibition in the third hall vividly presents the history of Mytishchi at the end of the 19th — the beginning of the 20th century. The historical section concludes with the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) hall. Many materials are connected with the battles on the Lobnya defensive line of Moscow in November–December 1941.