Steamer St. Nicholas in Krasnoyarsk

The steamer St. Nicholas is moored on the Krasnoyarsk embankment near the Krasnoyarsk Museum center, which was one of the largest Lenin museums in Russia in Soviet time. On this ship, Lenin sailed into exile from Krasnoyarsk to Minusinsk, and then went to the village of Shushenskoe. 

The cargo and passenger wheeled steamer St. Nicholas was built in 1886 in Tyumen, commissioned by the industrialist Sibiryakov. It operated passenger flights on the Yeniseisk-Krasnoyarsk-Minusinsk route on the Yenisei river. At the same time, it could take on Board up to 200 passengers. In 1891, the ship sailed Tsarevich Nicholas, who was returning from a trip to the East. 

Vladimir Lenin was arrested in 1895 for revolutionary activities and threatening the state system. After the trial, he was sentenced to serve in exile in Shushenskoye under police supervision. However, Lenin`s mother arranged for him to travel from St. Petersburg to Shushenskoye not as a prisoner, but at his own expense. 

At the same time, Nadezhda Krupskaya was also arrested and sentenced to exile in Ufa, but she asked to be exiled together with Lenin to Shushenskoye, where they promised to get married immediately. Krupskaya`s mother also went into exile with them. 
In may 1896, Vladimir Lenin, boarded the steamer St. Nicholas in Krasnoyarsk and arrived in Minusinsk a few days later. 

Nadezhda Krupskaya and her mother arrived to Shushenskoe later. Thanks to this trip, St. Nicholas was not sawn for scrap, but for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was restored and became one of the museums dedicated to the Revolution and Vladimir Lenin. A Museum exhibition dedicated to Lenin`s stay in Krasnoyarsk and Shushenskoye was created inside the ship.