Museum of S.Y. Lemeshev

The Museum of Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (1902-1977), People's Artist of the USSR, soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, in his small homeland in the village of Old Prince of the Kalinin district was founded on July 12, 1986 on a voluntary basis by the singer and historian of musical culture V.D. Vasiliev.

Since 1990, the museum has been housed in a newly rebuilt new building on the old foundation of the parish school, where Lemeshev studied from 1911 to 1914.

About the childhood and youth of the great artist, his family, first educators and teachers tell the materials of the first hall of the exhibition. Here are placed family photos, furniture sets from the house of the Kvashnins, made by students and teachers of the school paintings and wooden utensils.

The exhibits of the second hall tell about the years of study of the great singer at the Moscow Conservatory and Stanislavsky Studio.