Peter & Paul Church


In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.


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1. Shushenskoe Ethnographic Museum

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For the 1970 centenary of Lenin’s birth, a two-block area of the village centre was reconstructed to look as it had in 1870. These well-kept ‘old’…

2. Krzyzanovsky & Starkov Flat Museum

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Lenin's friend Gleb Krzyzanovski moved into this flat as an exiled revolutionary in 1898. It was here that he started developing an interest in electric…

3. Martyanov Museum

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Filling three distinct buildings, the countless halls crammed with local taxidermy, Bronze and Iron Age finds, Tuvan and Khakass standing stones,…

5. Decembrist Museum

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Earlier exiles are the theme of the Decembrist Museum in a hard-to-find location one block west from the church and three blocks north along ul Oborony.