State Historical Museum

There are museums that every self-respecting local resident should visit. This is the State Historical Museum — it is an amazing and vast storehouse of knowledge, the largest national museum in Russia. It is located on the Red Square house 1. Founded almost 150 years ago by the decree of Alexander II, it not only withstood all wars, revolutions and coups, but also managed to collect a rich collection of exhibits during this time. The museum building in the pseudo-Russian terem style perfectly fits into the ensemble of Red Square, it is interesting not only from the outside, but also inside. Its facades and interiors, interior decoration — painted ceilings and walls, mosaic floors and grilles, give a clear idea of the stages of development of Russia. Imagine: there are about 5 million exhibits in the museum's collection alone, and more than 15 million historical documents! Its collection includes archaeological finds and manuscripts, old printed books and ancient icons. Here you can see a wide variety of collections. The museum has a lot of personal belongings of famous people, such as Ivan the Terrible, Peter I, Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin. The story is conditionally divided into two parts. On the first floor — everything related to the pre-Petrine times, on the second-after the autocrat cut a window to Europe. And even if you consider yourself an expert in Russian history, after getting acquainted with the giant collection of the State Historical Museum, you will definitely discover its new pages.