I rarely visit museums, but here the windows of the hotel overlooked the house of the Lenin Museum and it was a sin not to go there.
The museum is housed in a two-storey wooden wing in the back of the courtyard - a typical manor house of the second half of the 19th century. It is surrounded by a small landscape gardening area with a flower garden and a large statue of Ilyich.
The opening of the museum in 1937 was timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
His brother and sisters took an active part in the creation of the museum and the restoration of the apartment of the Ulyanov family.
In the lobby we are greeted by another statue of the leader and a souvenir shop.
In the first hall there are still a couple of statues of Ilyich - from a small one - "When Lenin was small, with a curly head", to a schoolboy against the background of the village of Kokushkino.
The museum exposition includes photographs, books, interactive whiteboards showing, for example, the family tree of Ulyanov-Lenin and his relatives.
Right there we see the Order of Ulyanov the Elder, the books of Grandfather Blank.
The family of a hereditary nobleman lived well. Each family member had his own small room, a nanny lived under the stairs, and there was a good hall on the second floor.
In general, the museum is not bad, it gives an idea of the life of the urban intelligentsia of Kazan at the end of the 19th century.