Decembrists' Church Museum: history stored in wooden walls
The Decembrists’ Church Museum is one of the few wooden structures well preserved in Chita. Its history began in 1776 when it was built on the donations of residents on the site of the former prison. Now a small temple is surrounded on all sides by residential buildings.
This church is unique as it was visited by the Decembrists - members of the opposition movement in Russia at the beginning of the XIX century, who organized an uprising in the Senate Square in St. Petersburg in December 1825. In 1827 many of the participants in that uprising arrived in Chita in exile. All of them together with their wives became parishioners of an ancient wooden church. It is known that it was in this temple that the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov married a French fashion designer Pauline Gueble whom he met in summer of 1825. Paulina, who did not know Russian, traveled to Chita for three months, having previously received permission from Emperor Nicholas I to follow her future husband to Siberia. Now a museum is opened in the church, where one can learn about how the Decembrists lived in Chita, what they did and how they spent their time. In fact, the exposition is devoted to how the Decembrists brought education and culture to this region and thereby gave it a chance to further development. After the revolution of 1917 the church was abandoned for a long time. It was restored only in 1985 by the 160th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising.
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