The house-museum of the history of political exile in Yakutsk - is one of the famous cultural attractions. The house was built in 1880 by a wealthy local resident FP Romanov and was placed on the street Portovskoy (later street Yaroslavl). In this house in 1902 he lived the most famous photographer in the capital - politssylny B. shelters. In 1904, in the area there was an armed protest politssylnyh, which went down in history as "Romanovsky protest."

In February 1951, the house was opened historical and revolutionary museum "The Bolsheviks in the Yakut link." The main initiator of the foundation of the museum became a senior fellow at the department of Soviet history, the famous historian and ethnographer AD Syrovatsky. The museum exposition acquaints visitors with the life and revolutionary activities of the Bolsheviks.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1980s. institution had special significance for the ideological work. On the museum it was entrusted with a very important role.
  Lighting revolutionary events was used mainly for political purposes. The museum exhibition showing the life and work of the Bolsheviks, located in seven halls of the museum. In one of them in detail recreated the event in 1902 - armed protest of political exiles, with fragments of the fence, interior room politssylnyh that time.

In the museum kept summer and winter tent, designed specifically for the residence of exiled people. In addition, the museum housed several buildings, miraculously preserved from destruction. One of these buildings is the chapel Innokentievskaya, previously located in the village of Walby.

Today the house-museum of the history of political exile in Yakutsk is considered one of the city's most famous museums.