Photo: museums and exhibitions, Museum of Kolokolnikov Estate, Tyumen

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Museum of Kolokolnikov estate: look at the life of Russian merchants

Museums and Exhibitions

The Museum of Kolokolnikov Estate is a real merchant house of the XIX century with elements of baroque and neoclassicism, one of the oldest ones in Tyumen. The first floor here is stone, and the second one is wooden. The estate originally belonged to the head of the city Ivan Ikonnikov. In 1837 he hosted the future emperor Alexander II and his mentor poet Vasily Zhukovsky on their way to Tobolsk and back.

In 1888 the estate passed to the merchant and philanthropist Ivan Kolokolnikov, who made a fortune in the tea trade. He widened the building and decorated it with carvings. The rooms got an enfilade layout, they had rich stucco molding. Now there is an exhibition on the second floor of Kolokolnikov estate that introduces visitors to the history of the merchant families who lived here and their way of life. The atmosphere of the times of the Civil War was preserved in the office, when for three months the estate housed the headquarters of the famous Soviet military leader Vasily Blyukher. The interior of a typical retail shop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was reconstructed on the first floor of the museum. In the 1990s the house was restored and supplemented with wax figures of Alexander II, Zhukovsky and Blyukher.

Museum of Kolokolnikov estate: look at the life of Russian merchants

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