House Museum Volkova

Volkov House Museum, located in the heart of the Finnish city of Lappeenranta, named after the Russian merchant Ivan Volkov and was opened in 1993. One of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in Lappeenranta was constructed between 1826 and 1905 commissioned by a wealthy merchant Klaudelina. In 1872 it became the owner of Ivan Volkov, a Russian merchant, a former serf, the founder of the famous dynasty of the trade. In 1983, the descendants of Klaudelina gave the building the town, and the local Department of Culture established in it a house-museum Volkov, managing to keep the interior Orthodox tradition.