Visit to Republic of Mari El National Museum 2017-07-20 16:15:00 Yoshkar-Ola While on a working trip to Yoshkar-Ola, Vladimir Putin visited the Republic of Mari El Timofei Yevseyev National Museum. The President took in the exhibition on the customs and beliefs of the Mari people – one of the few peoples in Europe to have preserved paganism as their traditional religion. The Timofei Yevseyev National Museum is the republic’s oldest museum and is a leading research, methodological and information centre with a unique collection. It was named after ethnographer, folklore historian and lecturer Timofei Yevseyev. Today, its collection has more than 230,000 items.