Sergiev Posad has seen a great deal in its time. This route introduces you to the main milestones in the town's history. Visit Russia's largest Orthodox monastery, stroll along the tourist streets, look into an unusual toy museum, and much more.
Station Square
🚂 Railway station · 🗿 Monument
Station Square
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N. D. Bartram Toy Museum
🏛️ Museum
Point 15
🏛️ Museum
This is the first toy museum in Europe and one of the first museums in Russia. Nikolai Bartram collected, studied, and made toys. In 1918 he used his collection to open a small museum in his Moscow apartment. Soon the museum was second in popularity only to the Tretyakov Gallery. Children and adults alike were drawn by the interactive exhibits.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Bartram (1873–1931) was the museum's founder. His life's work was collecting, studying, and even making toys. Bartram's goal was to preserve the toys of the past and to convey the importance of folk toys in a child's development. He believed that factory-made products did not shape children's aesthetic sense as they should.
In 1931 it was decided to move the toy museum to Zagorsk (as Sergiev Posad was then called). Bartram died that same year. Here the collection moved more than once before finally dropping anchor in 1980 in a mansion above the Kelarsky Pond. The building dates from the turn of the 20th century and was designed by A. Lotkov; it was originally intended as a boys' municipal school. The two-story brick building is a cultural heritage site.
Point on route “The Main Sights of Sergiev Posad”
Point 15
🏛️ Museum
This is the first toy museum in Europe and one of the first museums in Russia. Nikolai Bartram collected, studied, and made toys. In 1918 he used his collection to open a small museum in his Moscow apartment. Soon the museum was second in popularity only to the Tretyakov Gallery. Children and adults alike were drawn by the interactive exhibits.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Bartram (1873–1931) was the museum's founder. His life's work was collecting, studying, and even making toys. Bartram's goal was to preserve the toys of the past and to convey the importance of folk toys in a child's development. He believed that factory-made products did not shape children's aesthetic sense as they should.
In 1931 it was decided to move the toy museum to Zagorsk (as Sergiev Posad was then called). Bartram died that same year. Here the collection moved more than once before finally dropping anchor in 1980 in a mansion above the Kelarsky Pond. The building dates from the turn of the 20th century and was designed by A. Lotkov; it was originally intended as a boys' municipal school. The two-story brick building is a cultural heritage site.
15 points
4 km
4 hours
