The establishment of the museum in Gorokhovets was supported by a whole group of enthusiasts, which was headed by Anna Stepanovna Zakharova in 1968. She eventually became the first director of the nonprofit museum in this town in Vladimir Oblast.
Anna Zakharova was born on July 5, 1904, in Moscow in the family of a boilermaker at the Gorokhovets Boiler and Shipbuilding Plant. Anna Zakharova began her career at the age of fifteen. Through her efforts, numerous memoirs and eyewitness accounts were obtained about the establishment of Soviet power in the region and fellow countrymen, who participated in the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War.
Anna Zakharova managed to build up a collection of items that belonged to different periods of the Gorokhovets region. She initiated the assembling of collections for the nonprofit museum and the Museum of Semyon Mikhailovich Patolichev at Gorokhovets school No. 4.
While the museum was being prepared for opening, Anna Zakharova researched information about the archaeological excavations in the area of Lysaya Gora, led by Otto Nikolayevich Bader. Later, she maintained correspondence with him on the topic of creating an exposition dedicated to the archaeology of that area.
In Anna Zakharova’s correspondence with Otto Bader, the latter sounded truly enthusiastic about the idea of creating the nonprofit museum and the fact that his work would be presented to the public. The museum opening took place on December 24, 1972, in the building of the Church of John the Baptist of the Annunciation Cathedral complex.
On December 30, 1972, the “Novaya Zhizn” newspaper reported on this event as follows,
Anna Zakharova was born on July 5, 1904, in Moscow in the family of a boilermaker at the Gorokhovets Boiler and Shipbuilding Plant. Anna Zakharova began her career at the age of fifteen. Through her efforts, numerous memoirs and eyewitness accounts were obtained about the establishment of Soviet power in the region and fellow countrymen, who participated in the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War.
Anna Zakharova managed to build up a collection of items that belonged to different periods of the Gorokhovets region. She initiated the assembling of collections for the nonprofit museum and the Museum of Semyon Mikhailovich Patolichev at Gorokhovets school No. 4.
While the museum was being prepared for opening, Anna Zakharova researched information about the archaeological excavations in the area of Lysaya Gora, led by Otto Nikolayevich Bader. Later, she maintained correspondence with him on the topic of creating an exposition dedicated to the archaeology of that area.
In Anna Zakharova’s correspondence with Otto Bader, the latter sounded truly enthusiastic about the idea of creating the nonprofit museum and the fact that his work would be presented to the public. The museum opening took place on December 24, 1972, in the building of the Church of John the Baptist of the Annunciation Cathedral complex.
On December 30, 1972, the “Novaya Zhizn” newspaper reported on this event as follows,
