Mansions of Kshesinska and Brant: Museum of Political History

Idea

A tour of the Museum of Political History of Russia. We will see artifacts related to the most important events, as well as take a walk through 2 mansions: the palace of Matilda Kshesinska and the Brant mansion.

Route.

1. The meeting will take place in the courtyard-atrium: created in 1957, it connects two luxurious palaces of the early twentieth century.

2. Imperial Hall: significant events that covered the period since the accession of Alexander I and ended with the abdication of Nicholas.

3. “Empire on the Ways of Modernization”: an exhibition that makes it clear why revolution was inevitable.

4. Kshesinska mansion: a luxurious palace where one of the most famous ballerinas “tsared”.

5. Rooms of the 2nd floor where Lenin worked: Let's talk about the events of 1917 and the Civil War

6. Brant mansion: we will see temporary exhibitions and preserved interiors, where there are even stained glass windows based on sketches by Petrov-Vodkin.

Topics

A very rich tour, during which you will not get bored: we will talk about the fact that Matilda Kshesinskaya not only began to spin 32 fouetés, but also turned the head of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, and about the Stalin Empire, about the balcony from which Lenin spoke in April 1917, and about Timofei Kirpichnikov, who became a symbol of the February Revolution.

Let’s remember what the reign of each emperor, starting with Alexander the Liberator, what the Volunteers did, who Gapon is, what the expression “Stolypin ties” means, and how the museum began with the “spoiling” of a fake bill.

Interesting facts

• Find out who Malya Kshesinskaya is: “the decoration of the Russian ballet” or a grasping possessor
• Why Matilda's son Vladimir was first Sergeyevich, and then became Andreevich
• Was Brant a “baron” and did he meet his neighbor, Kshesinskaya?
• Are chandeliers with swans related to Russian ballet?
• Why did Nicholas II abdicate himself and his son, and why did this document have no force?
• Like the shackles of the people's volunteers, a piece of rope on which Perovskaya was hung, a bill forged by Afanasia Schmidt, and other interesting exhibits got into the museum.
• Why is the portrait of the last Russian tsar all cut bayonets?

and much, much more.

• guide

The price does not include:

Entrance tickets: adults - 500 rubles, preferential - 250 rubles. The guide doesn't need a ticket.

Excursion service - 1500 R.

The composition of the group can be expanded. Please specify the cost of payment in correspondence.

The museum is closed on Mondays.