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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-201Last update of repository: 22 August 2019Gosudarstvennyi muzei politicheskoi istorii Rossii (GMPIR)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1919 and opened in January 1920 in the Winter Palace, as the first museum in the country devoted to the revolutionary movement. In 1955 it became administratively a branch of the State Museum (after 1968 Central Museum) of Revolution of the USSR in Moscow (now the State Central Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia—see H–4). Since 1957 the museum has occupies the palace which had formerly belonged to the ballerina Matilde Kshesinskaia (a favorite of Emperor Nicholas II), built in 1904–1906 by the architect A.I. Goren. The building had been a meeting place for the Petrograd Bolshevik Party Committee starting in February 1917. The museum also occupies the neighboring building where M.I. Kalinin lived in 1918. Its present name dates from 1991. The museum has a branch “Gorokhovaia, 2” with exhibits on the history of the political police in Russia (H–202). |
