Governor's Mansion (Tobolsk, Russia)

[1] The house was built by merchant Ivan Kuklin in the 1790s, after the disastrous fire of 1788 which destroyed a major part of Podgora.

In 1800, the playwright August von Kotzebue, who was required to report to the Governor's Mansion while exiled to Siberia , noted that it still "appeared partly in ruins" on account of the fire.

31 July] 1917, the former Russian Emperor Nicholas II, who lost power when he abdicated in response to the February Revolution of 1917, and his wife, five children and forty-five retainers, including Pierre Gilliard, Alexandra Tegleva, Elizaveta Ersberg, Ilya Tatischev, Vasily Dolgorukov, Sydney Gibbes, Anastasia Hendrikova, Catherine Schneider, Sophie Buxhoeveden, Ivan Sednev, and Leonid Sednev, were imprisoned in the mansion.

The mansion is built in the style of classicism and is highly regarded as an architectural monument.

[5] Following a complete restoration of the building, which included demolition of an art deco portico and its replacement by one in the original design, it was reopened in 2018 to house The Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II.