Museum sights in Gori
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Stalin Museum
Possibly the most interesting museum in Georgia, the Stalin Museum is an impressive 1957 building that exudes a faintly religious air. The visit includes the tiny wood-and-mud-brick house where Stalin’s parents rented the single room in which they lived for the first four years of his life. This stands in front of the main museum building, perfectly preserved and with its own temple-like protective superstructure. The rest of the poor neighbourhood in which it stood was demolished in the 1930s as Gori was redesigned to glorify its famous son.
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Stalin's train carriage
To one side of the museum (and included in the tour) is Stalin's train carriage, in which he travelled to the Yalta Conference in 1945 (he didn't like flying). Apparently bulletproof, it has an elegant interior that includes a bathtub and a primitive air-conditioning system.
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