Exhibition "Nothing Has Been Decided Yet (1810–1824)"

About exhibition

The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the uprising on Senate Square in Saint Petersburg on December 14, 1825. It is a joint exhibition project of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V. I. Dal (Moscow) and the Irkutsk Museum of the Decembrists, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and with the participation of leading Russian museums, the Scientific Library of Irkutsk State University and private collectors. The exhibition is notable for its diverse range of objects. Of more than two hundred exhibits, a significant portion consists of campaign items (chests, boxes for storing documents and money, flasks, snuffboxes, etc.), items of noble household life (clothing, footwear, accessories, smoking pipes, ballroom accoutrements, noble seals), as well as weapons, orders and signs of secret societies. The exhibition features rare editions from the late 18th – early 19th centuries, including the seven volumes of N. M. Karamzin's "History of the Russian State" and the novella "Poor Liza" (1796 edition). An extensive portrait gallery is presented, along with documents, rare engravings and lithographs. Many museum items are being exhibited in Irkutsk for the first time. For information, call: +7 (3952) 20-75-32, +7 (3952) 20-88-18.