Museums: Crimea preserves the historical past of the country

The peninsula is a harmonious combination of the sea, lush nature, mass tourism and memorable for life sights. There are 17 only state museums with 26 branches. Museums Crimea opens at enterprises and institutions, and private collections are increasingly gaining the status of panopticians.

The Crimean palaces

To study the architecture and history of buildings built in the past is quite an interesting activity. Palaces of the peninsula can not be better suited for this. They harmoniously complement the museums of the Crimea. The photo with the description in the album of reproductions is good, but to visit and see with my own eyes, judging by the reviews of tourists, it is much more interesting.

The most exotic palace and park complex of the peninsula, the Vorontsov Palace, is wedged between the coast and the mountain Ai-Petri, not far from Yalta. His architecture was commissioned by the local governor, Count Mikhail Vorontsov, English architects. The construction of a bizarre combination of a Scottish castle, repeating the outlines of the overhanging mountains, with the Arab-Asian seraglio and six lions opening the way to the sea, took 18 years (1828-1846). In the reviews of tourists mentioned paintings, interior, dining and winter garden, made in the English style.

Massandra Palace was built As hunting House for the royal family. It is made in an artsy style, and the turrets resemble French castles. Construction took a long time and was completed only in 1889 by Emperor Alexander III. The newly renovated palace interior acquaints visitors with paintings by famous masters and antique furniture of the XIX century. The palace is surrounded by an even more refined park with water lilies blooming on the pond. According to the reviews of tourists who have visited Massandra, it is necessary to include such museums as those that are required. Crimea does not less cherishes the history of personalities. This can be traced through the memorial houses of famous people who lived on the peninsula or visited it.

Memorial houses and cottages

Peninsula regularly visited by many outstanding personalities. There were politicians and actors, poets and artists. Thus, Feodosia preserves the memory of the best marine painter of the world, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. Born by the sea and immensely in love with his indomitable element, the master managed to convey all the colors and movements of the Black Sea.

Poets Alexander Pushkin and Maximilian Voloshin also left their mark on the peninsula. Memory of them is preserved by the museums of Yalta and Koktebel.

Left their mark in the Crimea, Tsvetaeva's sister, the author of "Scarlet Sails" Alexander Green and Konstantin Paustovsky. Their museums are in Feodosia and the Old Crimea.

Severely ill with incurable in those years consumptive lived on the south coast of his days the famous Russian writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. According to the reviews of the tourists who visited the museum, the memorial house in Yalta, dedicated to his memory, embodied the "Cherry Orchard". Here and at his dacha, the writer created The Three Sisters. Photos, letters, books, personal belongings and memoirs of contemporaries carefully save these museums. Crimea many times became the arena of military operations. The history of military campaigns and military exploits is preserved in many collection funds of the peninsula.

Glory to the military past

Almost every museum in the peninsula has at least 1 hall devoted to the story of the military exploits of Russia and the Crimeans. Being a tasty morsel for invaders, the territory of the peninsula many times and at different times was subjected to the conquests of Greeks, Turks, Germans, French, English and other invaders. Local lore museums tell about it. Crimea offers to get acquainted with their expositions in Simferopol, Kerch, Feodosia, Evpatoria and other equally glorious cities.

However, the largest number of memoirs accumulated on its territory, the hero city, the outpost of Russian glory and seamen-Black Sea - Sevastopol. Reading reviews of tourists, one can come to the conclusion that the central place in this galaxy is occupied by the memorial complex "35th battery". She became a witness, and a direct participant in epoch-making events, the last frontier of the city's defense in 1941-1942. The times of the Second World War are also remembered by the Malakhov Mound and Sapun Mountain.

An earlier history of military feats was preserved in the famous Sevastopol panorama on the top of the Historical Boulevard, in the Mikhailovsky Battery and the Museum of the Black Sea Fleet.

Museums in Crimea for children

Many similar sites on the peninsula set as their goal to arouse the interest not only of adult visitors. Small tourists with pleasure will visit the "Glade of Fairy Tales" near Yalta, visit the zoological museum in Simferopol, as well as an aquarium in Sevastopol or Evpatoria.

• "Glade of Fairy Tales" is more than 300 figures of wonderful heroes, placed at the foot of the mountain in the open air. They were made of wood and stone by folk masters from different countries of the CIS and Europe. Kids will receive incomparable pleasure when on a walk they meet with their favorite characters.
• Memories of a hike in aquariums, inhabited by rare inhabitants of cold and warm seas, according to tourists, stay in memory for a long time.
• Zoological Museum introduces the fauna of the peninsula. Here, various species of birds and fish, reptiles and mammals are painstakingly collected and systematized.

On the peninsula you can visit palaces, medieval fortresses, mosques, temples, caves, monuments of the Great Patriotic War battles. A lot of interesting and mysterious conceal the museums of the Crimea. Photo and video, according to tourists, are allowed in them almost everywhere.