In 1852, thanks to the efforts of the Decembrists, a non-class female parish school was opened in Tobolsk. The founders of the school were the Decembrists Pyotr Nikolaevich Svistunov and Alexander Mikhailovich Muravyov. Girls of any class could enter the school. Young students were taught Church Slavonic and Russian, cosmography and geometry.

In 1910, on the site of the old building, a new red brick school building was laid. The Mariinsky School was declared the Mariinsky Women’s Seven-Year Gymnasium. The gymnasium opened on September 1, 1913. In that year, 297 female students studied there.

After the revolution on April 21, 1918, the first citywide meeting of the Tobolsk party organization took place in this house. From April 1918, the first organs of Soviet power were located.
In 1920, the Tobolsk artist Panteleimon Petrovich Chukomin opened the Museum of Fine Arts in this building. Nowadays it is secondary school No. 1.

Address: Tobolsk, . Lenin st., 26