In 2009, the Astrakhan Art Gallery, which branches the museum and cultural center “House of Merchant Grigory Tetyushinov”, launched a campaign “Giving Good” and asked the city’s residents to donate antique items to the museum.
This campaign resonated so widely that the exhibits that were brought to the museum had to undergo a thorough selection process. After establishing the authorship, time and place of origin and, in some cases, restoration, some of the items became part of the museum collection of the late 19th — early 20th century. Today the exhibits are displayed in the exhibitions “Merchant’s Study”, “Daughter’s Room”, “Library” and “Merchant’s Sitting Room”.
A significant part of the exhibition was made up of items donated to the museum by Irina Mikhailovna Oberemko, whose great-grandmother was the sister of the merchant Grigory Vasilyevich Tetyushinov. They include a kidskin glove, a corset, a hat box, an Easter cheese mold and a brochure “Women’s Needlework. ABC for Linen Marking” by the merchant’s grandniece Cleopatra Petrovna Lugakovskaya, as well as other memorabilia.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
