The Museums of the History of House

The Museum is located in the mansion that witnessed important events in the Tyumen’s history. This wooden mansion built in 1804 was initially owned by the merchant family of Ikonnikovs. Its architecture presented an original mix of baroque and classicism elements alongside with traditional Tyumen wood-carving. The house is by right considered ‘a pearl’ of the wooden architecture in Tyumen. In 1837 Prince Alexander, future Russian emperor Alexander II, stayed in the house in the company of his tutor, the poet Vassili Zhukovski. High-ranking guests were welcomed by the host I. Ikonnikov, at that time Head of the town.

At the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth centuries the house belonged to the merchant Kolokolnikovs family, who left a noticeable trace in the town’s history.

During the Civil War an Aid Committee for wounded soldiers of the White Army was located in the house. In 1919 it was turned into a headquarter of the Commander of the 51st infantry division Vassili Blucher, who later became one of the first marshals of the Soviet Union.

Expositions of the museum provide an ample opportunity to re-construct, on the example of this house alone, many vivid pictures out of the history of Tyumen, and of the country.