RF Black Sea Fleet museum (Sevastopol) | interesting place, 19th century construction, military museum, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), history museum

 interesting place, 19th century construction, military museum, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), history museum

The museum of a Sevastopol' defense was in a central part of city in the Yekaterinenskaya street (nowadays - 11, Lenina str). The initiative of creation of a museum belonged to the participants of a heroic defense of Sevastopol' 1854 — 1855. For organization of a museum the Special committee in St.Petersburg under presidency E. I. Totleben, and in Sevastopol' — Local commission led by the vice-admiral P. I. Kislinsky was created . The tax of the voluntary donations in fund of a museum was organized. For a museum the subjects were handed : personal things, photos, documents, manuscript of memoirs participators of a defense of Sevastopol', collection cold and fire-arms, engraving, picture of the artists I. K. Ayvazovsky, F. A. Rubo, V. E. Makovsky and others. The general E. I. Totleben has given for a museum the house, in which five rooms the exposition was placed (was opposite to a building of a present fleet museum). The opening of a museum of a Sevastopol' defense was held on September 14, 1869. To 25 old of a museum, in 1895, for it the special building under the project of an architect A. M. Kochetov was constructed. In a basis of the architectural decision of a building were fixed inherent to museum structures of that time of the form of antique Greece. The conditions of a relief have defined a composition of a building at two levels. The facades are symmetric. In a court yard of a building the opened exposition of military engineering is located. Nowadays in a building of the Black Sea Fleet museum settles down.