In April 1900 in a modest house on the outskirts of Pskov, a meeting of people, who seventeen years later abruptly changed the centuries-old history of a huge country, passed unnoticed. Here in the house of Bochkarev Vladimir Lenin and his associates decided on the issue of publishing the party newspaper Iskra in the house of Bochkarev. In 1938 the house-museum of V.I. Lenin was opened in this house.
The house of Bochkarev, named after its owner's name, was a safe house. The exposition tells the story of the V.I. Lenin and the Russian revolutionary movement. Here one can learn the process of creating the first Bolshevik newspaper, about its employees and the main topics, and can see how the newspaper was sent across the border. In one of the rooms the interior of the very living room of the 1900s was restored, in which the historic decision was made to issue Iskra.