One of houses of Decembrist exiles was one of the focal points of the Decembrists' social life in the mid-19th Century. Renovated in the late 1980s, the house is now a museum telling the story of the family's exile in Irkutsk.
Emotionally charged items on show include Maria's pyramidal piano, a browsable book of images collected by fellow Decembrist wife Ekaterina Trubetskaya of the various places the Decembrists were imprisoned, and Maria's music box sent from Italy by her sister-in-law.
