The house-Museum of the history of political exile in Yakutsk is one of the famous cultural attractions of the city. The house was built in 1880 to a wealthy local resident F. P. Romanov and was located on the street Portovskoy (later Yaroslavskaya street). In this house in 1902, he lived the most famous photographer in the capital - politically V. Shelters. In 1904, on this territory there was an armed protest politically, who went down in history as the "Romanovsky protest".

In February 1951, the house hosted the opening of the historical-revolutionary Museum "the Bolsheviks in the Yakut link. The main initiator of Foundation of the Museum became a senior researcher of the Department of Soviet history, renowned historian and ethnographer A. D. syrovatskii. The Museum exposition acquaints visitors with the life and revolutionary activities of the Bolsheviks.

Since the 1950s and by the 1980s the facility was of particular importance to ideological work. The Museum was entrusted with a very important role.
The light of the revolutionary events was used mainly for political purposes. Museum exhibition presenting the life and activities of the Bolsheviks, were located in seven halls of the Museum. In one of them recreated in detail the events of 1902 - armed protest political exiles, with fragments of barricades, the interiors of the rooms politically of the time.

In the house Museum has survived the winter and summer yurts, designed specifically for the residence of exiled people. In addition, the Museum has placed several buildings, miraculously spared from destruction. One such attraction is the same chapel, formerly in the village of Walba.

Today the House-Museum of the history of political exile in Yakutsk is considered one of the most famous city museums.