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The
Museum
of
Contemporary
History
of
Russia
(until
September
1998,
the
Central
Museum
of
the
USSR
Revolution,
the
Museum
of
the
Revolution)
is
one
of
the
largest
museums
of
contemporary
history
in
the
world.
The
museum
is
located
in
the
center
of
Moscow
(Tverskaya
street,
21),
in
a
building
-
an
architectural
monument
of
Moscow
classicism
of
the
late
18th
century.
From
1831
to
1917,
it
housed
the
Moscow
English
Club.
After
March
8
(21),
1917,
the
director
of
the
Museum
of
the
All-Russian
Union
of
Cities,
the
famous
journalist
V.P.
Kranikhfeld,
turned
to
the
chairman
of
the
Executive
Committee
of
Moscow
public
organizations
N.M.
museums
with
the
aim
of
scientific
and
practical
development
of
the
issue
of
creating
a
Museum
of
the
Revolution
in
Moscow
”,
on
March
22
(April
4),
1917,
a
meeting
was
held
at
which
the
Society
of
the
Museum
of
the
Revolution
was
created.
The
beginning
of
the
museum
exposition
of
the
Museum
of
the
Revolution
was
laid
in
1922,
when
the
exhibition
"Red
Moscow"
was
organized
in
the
building
of
the
former
Moscow
English
Club
on
the
fifth
anniversary
of
the
October
Revolution.
In
February
1924,
the
sub-department
of
the
Exhibition
of
Istpart
merged
with
an
exhibition
in
the
Historical
and
Revolutionary
Museum
of
Moscow
(according
to
the
report
of
E.
Bosch).
Officially,
the
Museum
of
the
Revolution
was
established
by
the
decision
of
the
Central
Executive
Committee
of
May
9,
1924.
Soon
the
institution
was
named
the
State
Museum
of
the
Revolution
of
the
USSR.
The
first
director
of
the
museum
was
S.I.
Mitskevich,
a
professor
at
Moscow
University,
one
of
the
organizers
of
the
Moscow
Workers'
Union.
The
main
task
of
the
museum
was
to
reflect
the
history
of
the
revolutionary
liberation
movement
in
Russia,
from
the
17th
century
to
the
victory
of
the
October
Revolution.
Since
its
opening,
the
museum
has
been
actively
collecting
funds,
opening
exhibitions
dedicated
to
the
peasant
wars
in
Russia,
the
Decembrist
uprising,
the
activities
of
revolutionary
democrats
and
Narodnaya
Volya,
Russian
revolutions
and
the
civil
war.
Famous
artists
donated
their
works
to
him.
So,
IE
Repin
sent
as
a
gift
to
the
museum
his
paintings
"January
9",
"Red
Funeral",
"October
17,
1905",
"The
Tsar's
Gallows",
as
well
as
a
portrait
of
Kerensky.
In
1927,
the
tasks
of
the
museum
were
significantly
expanded:
in
addition
to
the
history
of
the
revolutionary
movement,
the
museum
began
to
show
the
history
of
socialist
construction
and
the
achievements
of
the
new
society.
During
the
reconstruction
of
Tverskaya
Street
in
the
1930s,
half
of
the
side
wings
were
cut
off
from
the
building
occupied
by
the
museum
and
the
fence
was
moved
to
a
new
line.
The
question
of
building
a
new
museum
building
from
the
rear
side
of
the
mansion
was
considered,
but
this
idea
was
soon
abandoned
By
the
beginning
of
World
War
II,
the
museum
occupied
one
of
the
leading
places
among
the
country's
museums
of
a
historical
profile,
had
branches
"Underground
Printing
House
of
the
Central
Committee
of
the
RSDLP"
and
"Historical
and
Revolutionary
Museum"
Krasnaya
Presnya.
”By
1941,
the
museum's
stock
collections
amounted
to
1
million
museum
items.
Since
1939,
the
exposition
has
hosted
an
exhibition
of
gifts
to
IV
Stalin
(the
exhibition
was
closed
after
the
exposure
of
the
personality
cult
at
the
XX
Congress
of
the
CPSU).
With
the
beginning
of
the
war,
the
museum's
exposition
was
closed,
most
of
the
collections
were
evacuated.
Nevertheless,
at
the
beginning
of
July
1941
within
the
walls
of
the
museum
was
opened
the
exhibition
"The
Great
Patriotic
War
of
the
Soviet
people
against
German
fascism";
trophy
weapons
were
installed
in
the
courtyard
of
the
museum:
an
airplane,
cannons,
a
tank,
machine
guns,
mortars.
The
museum
exposition
began
to
be
restored
in
1944.
By
the
decision
of
the
Committee
for
Cultural
and
Educational
Institutions
under
the
Council
of
Ministers
of
the
RSFSR
dated
February
12,
1947.
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