The museum "Underground Printing 1905 - 1906 years" is a branch of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. The museum was opened in Moscow in 1924 and is located on the ground floor in the left wing three-storey building. The house was built in the late 19th century and belonged to a merchant Kolupaeva.
Illegally conspired printing house was here during the 1905 revolution. We organized the printing press for the publication of illegal literature, newspapers and leaflets. The initiators were the leaders of the RSDLP - Krasin and Yenukidze. For this purpose, we have found a home on the outskirts of Moscow, near the Georgian settlements. To cover the printing house was opened shop, traded Caucasian fruit and cheese. The printing house was in the room, dug under the warehouse. There was a small printing press, "the American."
Printing was well disguised and successfully operated, although located near the police station and Butyrskiy Butyrsky prison fortress. However, successfully spreading underground newspaper "Business". In 1906, the underground press mothballed. The machine is transported on Christmas boulevard, the new premises.
The museum was opened in 1924 at the suggestion of Sokolov, known under the party name "Miron". The creators of the museum were former members of the underground, who worked in the print shop.
The museum includes: store room, basement store, two living rooms and a kitchen. Furnishing rooms completely restored and is typical of life of Moscow bourgeois class. Well-preserved Russian oven. The decoration used furniture, tableware and household utensils of the time. On the walls of numerous photographs.
The cellar, which was located at the printing house, decorated in the form of stock: boxes of fruit, barrels of crude. At the bottom of stacked illegal leaflets and newspapers. Typography itself is below the level of the basement. It can be seen through a special viewing window in the wall. It is true the printing press. In the museum you can see photocopies of documents and learn detailed description of the history of printing and the activities of the underground.
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