The Prelate Nikolay Steamship was built by Siberian industrialist A. Sibiryakov. In 1886, it was the highest-speed ship on the Yenisei with two steam engines. It was carrying cargo and passengers from Krasnoyarsk to Yeniseisk and Minusinsk and back.
It is symbolic that at the end of the XIX century, Nicholas II (then still Prince Nikolai Alexandrovich) and Vladimir Lenin (then just a revolutionary exile, Ulyanov) traveled on board the ship. The ship also transported other famous passengers. However, with the development of shipbuilding industry the steamship became less needed: first, it was turned into a barge for oil transportation, and then “was granted a well-deserved rest”. By the early 70-ies of the past century, after the opening of the Museum-Sanctuary Shushenskoye, the steamship, which transported the leader of the world proletariat, Lenin, to his place of exile, was restored and made a museum. Its exhibitions mainly cover Ulyanov-Lenin’s revolutionary activity.