More than two hundred years ago in a thick forest by the river Kama, the axes started knocking, a little river Votka was blocked by a dam, and soon one of the Ural iron plants-Kamsko-Votkinsky- was built here. Simultaneously with the plant, the worker’s village Votkinsk was being built too. The plant was famous for its iron, anchors, ships. Also Votkinsk is famous for the fact that on May 7, 1840 in a family of the Kamsko-Votkinsk mountain district’s chief, Ilia Petrovich Tchaikovsky, a boy was born. The boy was destined to become pride and glory of Russian musical culture.

Tchaikovsky spent only eight childhood years in his native town Votkinsk, but the memories of that time were kept alive in composer’s soul forever.

Memorial museum of Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk was opened in spring 1940 to commemorate the composer’s one-hundredth birthday. Thirty years later the Tchaikovskys’ house was restored according to the saved documents. And now, walking along these quiet rooms, looking at the pictures and documents, it is possible to imagine the atmosphere that surrounded the impressionable boy, all that induced his child mind to think, that raised the first happiness and grief in his soul, first tender melancholy and bright child happiness.

It’s a hall - a spacious light room. Here Petr heard the sounds of music for the first time, here it took hold of all his being, and here he touched the keys of grand piano. The old “Virt” grand piano is the most precious relic of the museum.