MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY-DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT. 1880s-90s

7 Bolshoy Kazachy pereulok 191180 St. Petersburg
Open: 11am - 5pm
Closed: Saturdays, Sundays and the last Thursday of every month
Tel. 113-5220
Nearest metro station: Pushkinskaya

The Museum of the Revolutionary-Democratic Movement evolved in 1993 from the former apartment museum of Vladimir Lenin. Lenin lived in one of the rooms of this apartment in 1894-95. Here he wrote What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight Against the Social-Democrats. This room is preserved as the memorial section of the exhibition.

The museum contains a library of Lenin's works published during his lifetime, memoirs, materials on the history of regional sections of the RSDLP, photographs, posters and a collection of Petrograd newspapers from 1918-20.

There is also a display recounting the story of the area in which the museum is located: a number of regiments of the capital's garrison, including the Semenovsky, Moskovsky and Yegersky regiments, had their headquarters around the Semenovsky Regiment's parade ground.