Aside with the main tourist routes of St. Petersburg, unique and extremely informative objects are often. One of them is the Museum of Sergei Mironovich Kirov at the Petrograd Island, which I highly recommend visiting all fans of national history.
The apartment is located on the fourth floor of the so-called "House of Benoit" the construction of the beginning of the twentieth century at the address Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, d. 26-28. The nearest metro station "Petrogradskaya" is about five minutes walk, while you have to move towards the center, adhering to the right side. Lovers of longer walks can get there from the Petropavlovsk fortress for half an hour, adhering to the left side of the prospectus.
The staircase of an old mansion is decorated with posters and pointers in a revolutionary-constructivist style, and the airship model hangs in its span. The museum works from 11 to 18 hours, day off - Wednesday. The cost of tickets are 150 rubles for adults, 100 for students and pensioners, free of charge for beneficiaries. But I will advise you to take a tour that it will cost a little more expensive, but will pay off by the cognitive story of the guide-enthusiast.
The museum consists of a multi-room apartment itself, which also moved the Kirov Cabinet from Smolny. Here you can observe interiors and household items of the 30s, a huge library, hunting accessories of the owner, and in the kitchen one of the first electrical refrigerators. In adjacent rooms, including on the fifth floor there are exhibitions dedicated to the Leningrad children of the pre-war period, as well as the history of the Leningrad region.
In the museum is not a few. My children and I have been practically the only visitors within an hour. True, it took place on a weekday, albeit in the summer.
