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Tallinn has long been a point of contact between Estonian and Russian cultures. Goods and new trends from the capitals reached the city first, many high-ranking officials of the Russian Empire were from these places. The museum acquaints with the Russian culture of Estonia and the life of Russian residents of Tallinn.
The Tallinn Russian Museum is located in a medieval building at the address Pikk 29 a. For the first time in written sources, the house is mentioned in the 15th century, when its owner was the well-to-do merchant Arent Stafenberg. All subsequent owners of the house were united by one thing: their high status in society and wealth. From the second half of the 19th century until 1939, the house was owned by the Nottebek family. It was at this time that the house was radically rebuilt. In the history of Estonian culture the building entered as the first location of the school-studio Antsa Laikmaa (1904).
Since February 2017 the exhibition "Russian printed word in Tallinn: from the 19th century to 1940" has been opened.
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