Bread and Wine museum of Arkhipo-Osipovka

The Bread and Wine museum of Arkhipo-Osipovka is located on the area of the Mikhailovsky fortification. First, it is dedicated to bread and wine, but here you can get acquainted with the whole Cossack life and culture that developed in this region during the 19th century.

The Museum displays are located on two floors. On the first floor, you can get acquainted with the stages of the Caucasian war, when the Black Sea coast came under the rule of the Russian Empire. Here you can see the layout of the Mikhailovsky fortification at the time of its assault by the fighters of Caucasian tribes in 1840, when private Arkhip Osipov performed his feat.

The basis of the exhibition dedicated to bread is an old mill. Once an old millstone was found in the river Vulan, it was quite suitable for work. Later, local residents restored the 19th-century mill, but the flour is ground on a hand millstone. In the Museum, you can take a master class on baking bread in the village oven. You will see what the barns looked like; get acquainted with the history of growing grain crops.

A large exhibition is dedicated to wine-making, which has flourished in these parts for centuries. There are widely presented devices for making wine drinks of different strength, as well as bottles used for these drinks storage. There is even a Heracleian amphora found during the excavations of ancient black sea cities.