Photo: museums and exhibitions, Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore, Kaluga

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Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore, Makarov`s House and Kamenny Bridge

Museums and Exhibitions

It is worth to stroll about the center of Kaluga to picture what the city looked like in the XVIII century. Your first assistant in this matter is certainly the Regional Museum of Local Lore created by the Kaluga scientific archival commission in the late XIX century. Back then it occupied the Chambers of merchants Korobovs, a house of the XVII century, and its exposition consisted of coins, archeological finds and household items.

Later, the Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore moved to the former estate of merchant Zolotarev, a richly decorated mansion with bas-reliefs, high reliefs, wall paintings and inlaid floors. The interiors of the estate are even singled out into a separate exposition, which can be viewed with a theatricalized excursion: visitors are introduced to the mansion by merchants Zolotaryovs. The museum collection includes more than 100 thousand exhibits. The “Exotic Animals” exhibition will “tell” you about the flora and fauna of the Kaluga Region, as well as show you the stuffed animals and birds, corals, skeletons of fish from across the globe: all these showpieces were collected by Kaluga researchers! The historical department presents the development of the region since ancient times by close of the XIX century.The Baroque Chambers of Makarov will also "tell" about the history of the city. They come under notice by asymmetrical multicolored facades. The chambers, built by a schismatic Makarov in 1728, are still used as a residential space. They stand on the edge of the Berezuisky Ravine which is arched by a stone bridge, the only one in Russia built like a Roman aqueduct. Constructed in 1780, it relies on 15 arches. Its length is 112 meters and the height is 23 meters. Legend has it that this bridge is mentioned by Nikolai Gogol in the "Dead Souls". One of his heroes dreamed of a stone bridge with trade stalls, and they really existed here until the mid-XIX century.

Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore, Makarov`s House and Kamenny Bridge

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