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Starocherkasskaya Historical and Architectural Reserve Museum about the Life of Don Cossacks

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Stanitsa Starocherkasskaya is the capital of the Don Cossacks and the Russian rebellion. It is imbued with history and legends. One theory is that this is the place where Stepan Razin was born, Kondraty Bulavin was killed and Yemelyan Pugachev happened to be. Many monuments of residential and religious architecture of the past centuries have been preserved in the stanitsa (Cossack village) by the early twentieth century. In 1920, Stepan Razin Museum was opened here, and in 1970, the Starocherkasskaya Historical and Architectural Reserve Museum was created. This happened thanks to the writer Mikhail Sholokhov, who came to the village and was so impressed by the views of Starocherkasskaya that he wrote a letter to the Politburo (Political Bureau) requesting to specify the list of monuments in the village that needed restoration and preservation.

The most important buildings of the village: the Host Resurrection Cathedral, the first stone cathedral on the Don, several smaller churches, the Ataman’s Palace (the Yefremovs’ family estate) and Kondraty Bulavin's House were restored during the first 15 years of existence of the Historical and Architectural Reserve Museum. Total of 23 objects in the museum's structure, dedicated to the life and history of the Don Cossacks, are available to visitors of the Reserve. Thus, you can see a six-tier iconostasis with 150 icons and the chains of Stepan Razin in the Don Нost Cathedral of the Ascension. In addition to the objects associated with the names of outstanding Cossacks, the museum includes real Cossack dwellings of the XIX-XX centuries, the Ataman manor, the monastic plot of land and the remains of the Anninsky Fortress of 1730. The museum’s capital fund contains more than 50 thousand items: documents, photographs, coins, furniture and suits. Some of them are rare, in particular, the patriarch Nikon's book "Conversations of John Chrysostom" published in 1623.

Starocherkasskaya Historical and Architectural Reserve Museum about the Life of Don Cossacks

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