In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.
Peter & Paul Church
Eastern Siberia
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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,…
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’…
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This elegant 1803 church is across the square from the superb Martyanov Museum.
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…
28.59 MILES
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.
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1. Shushenskoe Ethnographic Museum
0.07 MILES
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
28.08 MILES
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…
28.26 MILES
Filling three distinct buildings, the countless halls crammed with local taxidermy, Bronze and Iron Age finds, Tuvan and Khakass standing stones,…
28.32 MILES
This elegant 1803 church is across the square from the superb Martyanov Museum.
28.59 MILES
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.