The house-museum of A.I. Kocheshev is a museum located in the city of Kurgan . Dedicated to photographer Aleksey Ivanovich Kocheshev (March 3, 1865 - after 1933), who opened his own shop on September 19, 1891 .
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| Address | 640000, Kurgan , st. Soviet , 92. |
Thanks to his work, today we can see the Barrow as it was in the late XIX - early XX centuries. The creative life of Alexei Kocheshev began when he received the permission of the Tobolsk governor to produce photographic works in Kurgan. At the first Kurgan Agricultural Handicraft and Industrial Exhibition of 1895, Kocheshev provided about four hundred photographs with views of the Kurgan and the surrounding area. For this he was awarded a silver medal, and a year later, received a meritorious review after participating in the Moscow Photographic Exhibition. At the beginning of the 20th century, Kocheshev moved to another house. He was two-story, and the photographer took the first floor to the studio. In the same building, he opened a stationery and photographic supplies store. Kocheshev loved photographing railroad workers. For them, the photographer made discounts in price.
Kocheshev was carried away by the turbulent events of 1905. The “Manifesto of Freedom” was published in his printing house. Suppressing the open revolutionary action of the Kurgan workers, the city police arrested the entire strike committee. Kocheshev, using his authority, managed to break into the prison yard and take a group photo of those arrested - 14 people. But the police soon confiscated the negative. Nevertheless, one print remained (it is now stored in the museum). In 1907, Kocheshev shot the May Day demonstrations, and in 1917 he witnessed the revolution.
After the revolution, Alexei Kocheshev lost his photo studio and left for Omsk with his family. Until 1933 he worked as a foreman in the repair of pavilion equipment in Novosibirsk [1] . Numerous archives were lost, and only a few hundred yellowed photographs are carefully stored in local museums and family albums of indigenous citizens. 521 photographs of the famous master, transmitting the history of the Trans-Urals up to 1917, have reached our days.
During the revolutionary events, there was a newspaper printing house in Kocheshev’s house. On March 15, 1917, the Kurgan "Narodnaya Gazeta", owned by the Union of Siberian Butter Artels, published a message about the first issue of the newspaper Izvestia Kurgan Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies. Until September 1917, the leadership in this newspaper belonged to the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks. From September to December 1917, the publication of the newspaper Izvestia was discontinued. However, since January 1918, the newspaper began to appear again. Its editor was the Bolshevik Ya. Ya. Purits . The last issue was published on June 1, 1918. However, the printed part of the print run was destroyed by the white-covers, and the editor was arrested. September 15, Y. Ya. Purits was shot along with other Kurgan commissars. In the post-revolutionary period, the house was rebuilt. The glazed wall of the shop with top-side lighting was eliminated, the corner entrance and the entrance from Sovetskaya Street were laid. Massive figured gates and a corner balcony, as well as a tented roof with a spire, were removed. In the mid-sixties, the house was overhauled: central heating and cold water were carried out. On May 27, 1983, the Kurgan Regional Executive Committee adopted decision No. 369 "On measures to further improve the work of museums in the region," in which it recommended that the Kurgan City Executive Committee transfer this historical monument to the regional museum of local lore for placement in it of the department of the history of Soviet society and the depository.
The house-museum is open on a voluntary basis, a permanent exhibition is being prepared, material is being collected on the legacy of Kocheshev. The house museum is located in the Kocheshev photo studio at the intersection of Komsomolskaya and Sovetskaya Streets (in those years Dumsky Lane and Dvoryanskaya Street).