Museum and Local Lore Center "House of Tsyplakovs"

Kozel Museum of Local Lore was founded on the initiative of Kozel residents in 1957 and is one of the oldest museums in the region. Since 1969 it has become a branch of the Kaluga Regional Museum of Local History. The first head was N. N. Anisimov, a history teacher, local historian. Continued his case V.N. Sorokin, journalist and local historian. Anisimov and Sorokin are honorary citizens of Kozelsk, the authors of the book “Kozelsk”, which tells about the history of the city since its foundation. In 1969, through the efforts of V.N. Sorokin, the literary and historical department of the Kozel Museum of Local History was opened in the hermitage of Optina of the Desert, which included several buildings in which expositions dedicated to visiting Optina L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky and N.V. Gogol were placed. During the restoration of monastic life in Optina, this department was closed.

Until 2006, the Kozel Museum of Local History was located in Kozelsk, in the former House of Pioneers, on Mira Street, 36, then moved to the house No. 75 on Bolshaya Sovietskaya Street, in the XIX century owned by merchants Tsyplakov. In 2016, the Kozel Museum of Local Lore was renamed into the “Museum and Local Lore Center “Tsyplakov House”. Information about the building: an architectural monument of the early XIX century. Since 1868 belonged to the merchants Tsyplakov. In 1901, the Tsyplakovs gave the house to the Kozel City Society. Since the same year, the Kozel three-year city school was opened in the donated building, and in the Soviet years a general education school was located in it. In 1994, the house No75 on B. Sovetskaya Street was transferred to the local history museum, then it was restored and in 2006 the opening of the diorama “Defense of Kozelsk in 1238” took place in it, which was later supplemented by other expositions.

“Ethnography of the Kozelsky district” (female peasant costumes of the XIX century, ornamented towels, peasant utensils are presented); “Optina deserts” (books of the XVII – XIX centuries from the Optina library – including handwritten, icons, monastic household items, souvenirs of the XIX century from the Optina desert and from the Shamordinsky monastery, a portrait of D.M. Bolotov – a famous portraitist and icon painter of the XIX century, furniture and dishes – from the Optina library of the XIX century, “Priginary of the Slavic artifacter, from the Slavic war, from the “Priginary of the Slavic artifacteries, from the Soviet lands” (theirozhenka, “Prigins of the Slavic artifacts of the Soviet lands), “Prigins from the Soviet lands of the 12th century”, “Prigins of the Slavic gardens of the Russian artifacts of the Russian land”, “ Funds: at the beginning of 2016, 4782 items of the main fund, 3268 items of the scientific and auxiliary fund; there are many books in the museum funds, including those from the Optina Desert library (books of the XVII – XIX centuries).

The museum is open daily from 9.30 to 18.00 hours, without lunch. Monday is a day off, the last Wednesday of each month is a sanitary day.