"The museum is a must for the Russians to visit. Negative memories tend to dissappear quickly in that the human being has the complex neural system. It is the mechanism designed by nature to protect us. Anyway, history is science; thus, we had better remember even dark pages in our history so as to avoid making the same mistakes."

Alexander Potapov

"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."

WA Gayan C Chandrasena

"Nicely renovated. Very little english. Maybe the app would help. Just a collection of stuff. No clear message or history for me. Negative parts (except if concerns others) skipped. Some exhibits seemed to make fun of the Russian state doctrine. Not the best in Moscow. But if you read Russian and have the time. Why not. 300 rub."

Hans Kuepper