Borovichi Museum

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Borovichi Museum, or formally, The Museum of the history of the city of Borovichi and Borovichi krai is a local history museum in the city of Borovichi, in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the oldest museums in the region. The museum, initially dedicated to the lives and times of Vasily Zhukovsky and Nikolai Gogol, was founded in May 1918 by the board of the Borovichi District Department of Public Education. The museum was closed between 1926 and 1927, but reopened in 1928 due to the efforts of Sergei Nikolayevich Porshnyakov (1889-1992), who became the first director of the museum.

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