The postcard shows a terem-type building, a carved mansion with turrets, which was built in the late 19th century by the Repnikov merchant family. It was located on the corner of Elizavetinskaya Street (Gogol Street since 1909) and Voronezhskaya Street (now Kommunisticheskaya Street), near the station square.
It was home to the widow Yulia Dmitrievna Repnikova, mother of Alexander Alexandrovich Repnikov, a well-known merchant of the first guild, businessman, patron of the arts, hereditary honorary citizen of Tsaritsyn and Dubovka.
Alexander Repnikov was the patron of schools, gymnasiums and orphanages and established a scholarship for honors students. He initiated and funded the Museum of Local History (now the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History), and also the House of Science and Arts (the modern NET, the New Experimental Theater) were created in the city. Alexander Alexandrovich also financed social and health care projects.
Yulia Dmitrievna herself was notable for her hospitality: receptions of distinguished guests were often held at her mansion. For example, in April 1903, Saratov Governor Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, later the Russian Empire’s Minister of Internal Affairs, paid an official visit there.
In May 1903, however, Repnikova was forced to leave the mansion. She was annoyed by the noise from the factory, which had been built close to her house. She even went to court; the proceedings dragged on until the outbreak of the First World War.
A little later, during the Russian Civil War, military institutions started operating in the building. Afterward it housed the offices of the Illich Works and the Red Zastava plant, and even an orphanage. During the Great Patriotic War, many buildings in the city were completely destroyed, and only two buildings on Gogol Street have survived — the former nail plant and the mansion of the merchantess Repnikova.
The building of the former merchant’s mansion now houses the Memorial Historical Museum (formerly the Museum of the Defence of Red Tsaritsyn), the only museum in southern Russia which is dedicated to the events of the 1917 revolution and the Russian Civil War.
It was home to the widow Yulia Dmitrievna Repnikova, mother of Alexander Alexandrovich Repnikov, a well-known merchant of the first guild, businessman, patron of the arts, hereditary honorary citizen of Tsaritsyn and Dubovka.
Alexander Repnikov was the patron of schools, gymnasiums and orphanages and established a scholarship for honors students. He initiated and funded the Museum of Local History (now the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History), and also the House of Science and Arts (the modern NET, the New Experimental Theater) were created in the city. Alexander Alexandrovich also financed social and health care projects.
Yulia Dmitrievna herself was notable for her hospitality: receptions of distinguished guests were often held at her mansion. For example, in April 1903, Saratov Governor Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, later the Russian Empire’s Minister of Internal Affairs, paid an official visit there.
In May 1903, however, Repnikova was forced to leave the mansion. She was annoyed by the noise from the factory, which had been built close to her house. She even went to court; the proceedings dragged on until the outbreak of the First World War.
A little later, during the Russian Civil War, military institutions started operating in the building. Afterward it housed the offices of the Illich Works and the Red Zastava plant, and even an orphanage. During the Great Patriotic War, many buildings in the city were completely destroyed, and only two buildings on Gogol Street have survived — the former nail plant and the mansion of the merchantess Repnikova.
The building of the former merchant’s mansion now houses the Memorial Historical Museum (formerly the Museum of the Defence of Red Tsaritsyn), the only museum in southern Russia which is dedicated to the events of the 1917 revolution and the Russian Civil War.
