In 1871, the Ulyanov family moved to the house of D.F. Zharkova, located on Streletskaya Street. This was their third rental apartment in the city of Simbirsk. Here, Vladimir spent his early childhood, and Anna and Alexander were preparing for admission to the gymnasium. Dmitry was born in this house in August 1874.
Two months before Dmitry’s birth, Ilya Nikolaevich was appointed to the newly established position of director of public schools in the Simbirsk province. His workplace in the apartment — a small office — became inconvenient. Anna Ilyinichna spoke about the inconvenience of the office, “Such a high-sounding word. It was a small room that served as a bedroom for my father, with a desk where my brother Sasha did his homework.” At the end of the summer of 1875, the Ulyanovsk family moved to Moskovskaya Street.
The museum in the house of D.F. Zharkova was opened in April 1970 to mark the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin). Today, the Apartment-Museum of the Ulyanov Family is located here. The memorial exhibition of the museum is located on the second floor. Here visitors will see the office of the inspector (since 1874 — the director) of the schools of the Simbirsk province Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov, the family living room with an original piano, the children’s room where Volodya Ulyanov once played, and the kitchen with an unusual Russian oven.
Furniture, books, household
items of the 19th century, authentic items belonging to the Ulyanovs, allow the
visitor to go back almost a century and a half ago, feel the atmosphere of
those years, get acquainted with the family and childhood of the founder of the
Soviet state Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), and learn about the life of the
democratic intellectuals of Simbirsk in the 1870s–1880s.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
