China plans to open a museum focusing on Mao Zedong’s rise to power on a Tsarist-era country estate near Moscow. The museum commemorating the Sixth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which took place at Staro-Nikol’skoye in 1928, is due to open in July.
The museum will be a branch of Moscow’s Chinese Cultural Center and is supported by Russian authorities keen to increase Chinese tourism. The Chinese Cultural Center is restoring the 18th-century mansion after signing a 49-year lease.
In 2014, Russian tourism and culture officials unveiled a “red route” of sites, relating to Lenin and Soviet Communist history, for Chinese visitors to Moscow, St Petersburg, Ulyanovsk and Kazan.
Sophia Kishkovsky