V. V. Veresaev House Museum in Tula
The house on Upper-Dvoryanskaya Street, now known as Gogolevskaya Street, belonged to the family of the famous Tula doctor Vikenty Ignatievich Smidovich and was well-known in Tula in the 19th century. It was here that Vi…
Seraphim of Sarov Church in Tula
The church was built in 1905 with funds from merchants brothers Alexander, Nikolai, and Sergey Stefanovich Yermolaev-Zverev and was consecrated on February 5, 1906. Later, they also financed the construction of a shelter…
Museum of Tula Antiquities in Tula
The "Museum of Tula Antiquities" was founded in 1993 in a early 20th-century estate complex by the decision of the Tula City Council of People's Deputies. It was established as a municipal historical and archaeological m…
Beloborodov Museum in Tula
On March 25, 1995, the Memorial Museum of N. I. Beloborodov opened at 16 Lenin Avenue in the city center. This talented inventor created a new design of the keyboard chromatic harmonica and organized the world's first or…
Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in Rzhavets, Tula
In the 17th century, the Georgievskaya church was built in Nikolskaya sloboda, near the Rzhavets River. Later, a temple was constructed in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, which for a long time continued …
Saints Peter and Paul Church in Tula
The Catholic community in the Tula region has existed since the 19th century. In the 1840s, the chaplain of the Moscow railway took care of the Tula Catholics. After the suppression of the 1863 uprising, many Catholics f…
St. John of Kronstadt Church in Tula
The church is located on the grounds of the oldest city medical institution, the D. Ya. Vanykin Emergency Medical Hospital, known for its Tula merchant and philanthropist. He bequeathed his entire fortune to charity, sup…
All Saints Cathedral in Tula
After Catherine II's decree prohibiting burials within the city limits, the Tula authorities allocated a site in the south of Tula for a new cemetery. Initially, the cemetery church was wooden. In March 1773, at the requ…
Belfry of the All Saints Cathedral in Tula
In 1803, merchant V. Kurbatov, the elder of the All Saints Church, was given a book to raise funds for the construction of the belfry. However, the money came in slowly, and construction only began in 1833. For 25 years,…
Church of Archangel Michael at Tula State University
The church was built at the initiative of the head of the theology department of Tula State University, Archpriest Lev Pavlovich Makhno, and with the blessing of the Bishop of Tula and Belev, Kirill Nakonechny. This was …
