Gorky Street

Malaya Archangelskaya Street, like Bolshaya Archangelskaya, got its name from the Church of Michael the Archangel. On this street lived burghers and poor merchants. Descendants of exiled Poles who lived on Malaya Arkhangelskaya Street represented the families of Kuzikovsky, Shokalsky, Varda and Birzhishko.

In the early years of Soviet power, the street was named after the proletarian writer Maxim Gorky.
Maxim Gorky (real name and surname Alexey Maximovich Peshkov) is the author of "Makar Chudra", "Chelkash", "The Old Woman Izergil", "The Song of the Petrel", "The Song of the Falcon", "Foma Gordeev" (1899), "Three" (1900), "Philistines" (1900), "At the Bottom" (1901), "Summer Residents" (1904), "Barbarians" (1905), "Children of the Sun" (1905). "Enemies" (1906), "Mother" (1906), "Confession" (1908), "The Last" (1908), "Vassa Zheleznova" (1910), "The Town of Okurov" (1909), "The Life of Matvey Kozhemyakin" (1909−11), "Tales of Italy" (1911−13), "Childhood" and "In People" (1913). "My Universities" (1922), "The Artamonov Case" (1925), etc.

Gorky was the creator of new magazines, series of books "The Life of wonderful people", "The History of the Civil War", "The History of factories and factories", "The Poet’s Library". In 1934, he was the organizer and chairman of the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers.

The residential house is typical for the ordinary development of Tobolsk in the early twentieth century. This is a wooden one-storey residential building with a rectangular six-walled log cabin. The house is decorated with sawn carvings. The sawn thread is applied in two or even three layers, forming a kind of fringe that gives lightness to the whole house.

The building is typical for the ordinary development of Tobolsk in the late XIX — early XX century. The wooden two-storey house does not differ in the richness of the decor, but it is cut soundly. The house is decorated with simple platbands with a triangular sandrik motif. In 1911, the Tobolsk philistine Apollon Yakovlevich Vyalykh owned a house at Malaya Arkhangelskaya Street (modern Gorky Street).