State Historical-Architectural and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve "Izborsk"

In 1996, in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the State Historical-Architectural and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve "Izborsk" with an area of 7,734 hectares was created. On its territory there are 181 monuments of history, archaeology, religious and civil architecture, nature, 12 of them are of federal importance.

The State Museum-Reserve “Izborsk” is a unique historical, cultural and natural complex that has preserved a thousand-year planning and urban planning structure.

In the authentic merchant estates of the late IX – early XX century there are expositions “The Chronicle of the ancient city of Izborsk: from the beginning of Russia to the Poltava Battle”, “Izborsk Land – Holy Places for Russian Culture”, the author’s exposition of the People’s Artist of the USSR Peter Pavlovich Ossovsky “Izborsk Chamber of Russian Literature and Orthodox Faith”, the ethnographic exposition “Russians and Seto”. One land is a common history.”

The museum-reserve “Izborsk” is the only museum-estate of the small Seto people in Russia, which has preserved a unique material and spiritual culture.