History and People

Outstanding people who played a great role in Tobolsk development are presented widely in memorial expositions of the museum.

The initial insight into the history of Siberian development can be obtained at the Ermak’s exposition. Every exhibit seems to personify almost physically the presence of the legendary ottoman and his warriors. The exposition presents guns and arquebuses, hauberks and bludgeons of that time. Presented are also some portraits of Ermak pained by unknown artists of XVIII-XIX centuries. Surely, his real appearance can not be known for certain, so these portraits were created as a collective image created by the posterity.

There exists an exposition dedicated to the famous fairy teller Piotr Ershov, which contains his personal belongings. The other exposition presents family relics of the Decembrist Fonvisin. Among them are the portraits of the Fonvizin’s sons Dmitri and Michail, who were left by their mother in care of their relatives, so that she could follow her husband to Siberia.