EntranceMuseums, exhibitions, WWII expositions. Three exhibitions about the First World War Victory March to Death
The State Historical Museum opens a large-scale international exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.
The main goal of the exhibition is to restore the historical memory of the war, which was forgotten in our country for many years, and was referred to in history textbooks as “imperialist.”
The collection related to the history of the First World War began to be collected in the Historical Museum immediately after the outbreak of hostilities: in August 1914, the Department of the Current War was created in the museum. Subsequently, the museum funds were replenished with materials from trophy commissions, collections of the Military History and Artillery Historical Museums, complexes handed down by the families of war participants, as well as items brought from expeditions from the battlefields. As a result, the Historical Museum has a fairly large collection of monuments on the history of the First World War.
Among the exhibits miraculously preserved in revolutionary times are relics of regimental museums of the Russian army, telling about the participation in military operations of the famous regiments - the Life Guards of Preobrazhensky, Finlyandsky, 4th Rifle of the Imperial Family and a number of other military units and military schools.
The exhibition will feature banners, weapons, military awards, military household items, battle maps, as well as posters, drawings, documents, and photographs.
The museum houses a collection of paintings made by a brigade of front-line artists during the fighting. These are plot scenes and images of St. George's cavaliers - lower ranks, officers and generals, including N. Yudenich, M. Alekseev, G. Khan of Nakhichevan, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Exhibits associated with the names of generals A. Brusilov, S. Vankov, A. Gutor, I. Dovbor-Musnitsky are of great value. For the first time at the exhibition, the uniform of a Marshal of the British Army, which belonged to Emperor Nicholas II, and a set of uniforms of the chief of the 27th Dragoon Regiment of King Edward VII of Great Britain are on display.
The events that took place during the war will be shown using documentary films and photographs. The vast space of the fronts of the First World War will be visually recreated using multimedia tools.
For the exhibition at the Historical Museum, many Russian and foreign museums and archives provided their materials: the Imperial War Museum (London), the Army Museum (Paris), the Bavarian Army Museum (Ingolstadt), the Polytechnic Museum, the Putilov Plant Museum, the archives of the Historical and Documentary Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry , GARF, archive of film and photo documents, Political Archive of the German Foreign Ministry and others.
The organizers express the hope that the exhibition “The First World War. The Last Battle of the Russian Empire" will not only become a significant event in the cultural, social and scientific life of Moscow and Russia, but will also serve as an impetus for the creation of a museum of the First World War in our country.
A collection of scientific research and a catalog have been prepared for the exhibition.
The First World War: about 15 million killed on the battlefields and civilians, countless disabled people, collapsed empires and - as a result - a redrawn map of Europe... How to talk about all this, how to show at an exhibition a war that is called the "ultra-catastrophe" 20th century? The German Historical Museum in Berlin found the optimal solution. The exhibition leads along 14 key points of the First World War. Carefully selected exhibits show the past clearly; history is reconstructed using the example of private destinies.
Victorious march to death
The exhibition begins in the foyer, where the geopolitical situation in Europe on the eve of the great massacre is succinctly outlined: then, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent was in a fever of mutual claims and power ambitions. European capitals were ruled by aristocratic elites, businesses and banks gained enormous power, kings, czars and kaisers were related to each other. Something like one big family, which was torn apart by political and economic strife and among whose members there was a competitive struggle for the redivision of the world.
The German Empire, represented by Kaiser Wilhelm II, starting in 1890, pursued a dangerous policy, laying claim to colonies and building a navy of alarming proportions within a few years. This is clearly presented in the exhibition. The daily life of big cities of that era, their peaceful life, is close and understandable to us today. But the military marches that sounded everywhere seemed alien. Aggression is felt almost physically.
Six weeks after the assassination attempt on the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne and his wife, war began in Sarajevo. The world has gone crazy. At the German Historical Museum, a visitor to an exhibition walks past ruined walls plastered with European newspapers from those weeks and then approaches August von Kaulbach's painting "Germania." A long-haired, blond Valkyrie in armor, with a sword and shield, is ready to meet the enemy.
CONTEXT
“They believed then,” explains Andreas Nix, one of the curators of the exhibition, “that the war was just, defensive.” And they went to the front the way they did in the 19th century, under fluttering standards and marching gait. But this march was met by a fiery tornado of machine gun fire.
New weapons
Between 1914 and 1918, about 12 million people fought on the German side. In total, about 60 million soldiers took part in the First World War. During the Battle of the Marne, one of the key battles of the First World War, she first showed herself in a new dimension. Machine guns and rapid-fire artillery mowed down soldiers in ranks, and the number of casualties in the first weeks of the war was unexpectedly high. The soldiers began to dig trenches and trenches, erect parapets and build dugouts. They soon formed a dense network stretching from the banks of the English Channel to the Swiss border. The front froze, no one was talking about an imminent victory. The white gloves that one of the German soldiers kept in his duffel bag in case of a victorious entry into Paris were never useful to their owner. The First World War dragged on for a long time.
During battles in cramped trenches, archaic medieval clubs were used for mutual extermination, which also became exhibits at the exhibition. On land, in the air and at sea, however, competition was already underway for more modern, more lethal weapons. On April 22, 1915, German troops used chlorine gas, the first chemical weapon in history, during battles in the vicinity of the Belgian town of Ypres. In the “pitch hell” of Verdun, by the end of 1916, 26 million conventional shells and 100 thousand shells filled with poisonous gases were exploded.
At the German Historical Museum, these incredible figures are complemented by installations: illuminated gas masks, for example, hang behind a gauze curtain. When approaching them, the noise of rattles turns on, which in real trench conditions of the First World War warned soldiers about the start of a gas attack.
Total war
The exhibition in Berlin should be organized chronologically. She talks about battles in the East and West, about the war in Africa, about the fronts of the Ottoman Empire and about battles in mountain passes. Skis, toilet paper and board games are displayed as “household” exhibits; “Field checkers,” for example, easily fit into soldiers’ backpacks along with photographs and letters from home. The exhibition also shows “patriotic” toys, in particular, a miniature camp infirmary. Everyday life of a soldier includes cripples immortalized in photographs, hanged prisoners suspected of being spies, diary entries...
In total, about 500 exhibits from 13 countries - weapons, uniforms, everyday items, as well as diaries, letters, drawings, paintings, photographs, films - show in the German Historical Museum how terrible the First World War was, this is the first in the twentieth century a total catastrophe.
The department of art of the RSL on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the First World War. -current. Kar-to-ki from-ra-zha-yut on-li-ti-che-che-skaya and by-the-way of the military conflict: according to the photo- With graphic and drawing images you can get information about the countries that took part in the war , to get to know the text of the ma-ni-fe-sta of the Russian Tsar, to feel the structure of the Russian region -society, to get an idea about the development of the art of graphics and photo-graphy in the early 20th century ka. You are open until September 27th.
On July 20, 1914, in response to the announcement of Germany's war on Russia, the highest ma-ni-fest about the entry of le-nii of Russia in the war. Niko-lai II announced him from the ball of the Winter Palace in front of you-s-s-s-of-people, having taken-s-shi-s-s-to-the-Dvor- central square in St. Petersburg. In the ma-ni-fe-ste, you-ra-zha-lo-same, so that “in this year of terrible experience, internal disputes Would you like the union of the Tsar and the people to be strengthened.” Text of the ma-ni-fe-sta, pictures of the July ma-ni-fe-sta-tions and mo-bi-li-za-tions, de-mon-stri-ru-yu-schi-pat-ri- oh-so-high rise, appeared on the pages of newspapers and on postcards.
Some of them were photo-graphs from West St. Petersburg photo-graphs in the 20th century Karl-la Bulls, which can be seen at the current headquarters in the RSL. Soon, to the photo-graphic open-cameras, there were ri-so-van-nye images, av-to-ra-mi ko -those are the best hu-rains of that time. We can say that the postcards are with the leader of the military conflict throughout its entire length.
At the beginning of the war, eight states of Europe were included in it: Germany and Austria-Hungary against Great Britain. Ko-bri-ta-nii, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia and Chernogo-ria. By the end of the war, most of the countries of the world were already involved in it: four states took part in the war. not av-st-ro-German-sko-go block and 34 on the hundred-ro-not An-tan-you.
Ill-lu-stri-ro-van-nye postcards and other vi-zu-al-nye ma-te-ri-a-ly, especially in the first year of the war , clearly knowing the countries involved, presenting the personalities of kings and rulers, maps of Europe, national flags and anthems, views of the mun-di-ro-va-niya of the soldiers. On postcards you can see an in-ter-res-iso-stat-ti-sti-ku: the number of villages and armies, volume We are bread-for-pas-owls. For example, on one of the check cards for you bet on the number of horses in the villages Zhav: most of all from Russia (33 million heads).
In the beginning of the war, the hu-do-zhe-stven-nuyu in-tel-li-gen-tion for the lash-well-la wave of pat-ri-o-tiz-ma. At the moment of a military threat, make your contribution to help the enemy, convince the combatants of the Che-skoy not-from-future-but-sti pro-is-ho-de-sha-go, all-to-pourconfidence in the future - all these things were done, but they were decided by the worst means -ka-ta.
The idea of “Russian na-tsi-o-nal-no-go” became particularly important in the play-ka-but-ak-tu-al-noy and inspired a lot some well-known living scribes and graphic artists. Among them are Ab-ram Ar-khipov, brothers Vas-not-tso-you, Ser-gey Vi-no-gradov, Kon-stan-tin Ko-ro-vin, Leonid Pa-ster-nak, Ig-na-tiy Ni-vin-sky and others. Many of them work without pay. One of the lanes- a poster was created “To help the victims of the war” by Leo Pa-ster-na, which even caused a personal reaction king This poster in the form of a postcard can also be seen at the exhibition in the RSL - the images were then one-time-but-for-plates and open-tops.
There were quite a few openings in honor and work of good-creative organizations, in number which significantly increased during the war years. Along with the beings of the Russian Red Cross and the Russian Society of the Green Cross, Voz-nik-lo many new ones, deciding local ones for-da-chi. For example, the Ko-mi-tet for providing assistance to the families of persons called up for war, the Ko-mi-tet “The Book is a Soldier” -tu”, Moscow committee for supplying the same equipment to new re-do-zi-tions.
The goodness of creativity has become the cause of not only zemstvos, special committees, communities, but also individuals . It is difficult to re-evaluate the contribution of the committees that acted under the patronage of the members of the Im-pe-ra-tor-sko- go-ma, among whom were the Im-per-three-tsa Alek-sandra Fe-dorov-na and the other king. So, on one of the photo-gra-fi-che-che-cards for-printed-linen a visit to the Im-per-three-tsy and the Great-princes John Olga and Tatyana in the Tsarsko-Selo-sky courtyard la-za-ret.
Along with re-a-li-sti-che-ski-mi and sa-ti-ri-che-ski-mi syu-same-ta-mi in postcards especially for the load -ku carried al-le-go-ri-che-skie and sim-in-li-che-skie images. The entire state symbol - a two-headed eagle, a three-color flag, signs of im-pera-tor power. They are depicted with respect and love on postcards.
In addition, the war was always perceived by the people as a mystical phenomenon - not about -a hundred battles between two hostile states, but the struggle began between Good and Evil. Coming from such a truck, I often came across the enemy - the same thing from the ver-ga, uni-what Everything is alive on its way. To fight against him, we often inhaled the images of Russian gods and holy warriors - Dmitry Don-sko- go, Ge-or-gia Po-be-do-nos-tsa, ris-o-van-nye images of which multiplied on popular ones from -kryt-kah.
In the scenes from the openings of the First World War, there is a significant place from the right-glorious faith. In the conditions of a hundred stra-da-das and the separation of the family's faith in God, it strengthened the spirit, in my opinion. ha-la to-wait-but-to-re-live the war-well. Pro-vo-zhaya on front of relatives, wives and ma-te-ri yes-va-li in-and-for us the images of saints, blah-words-la-li, w-ho-mo- talked about preserving their lives. All this served as a mo-ti-va-mi for opening the doors. “The Lord will not forsake the house of the good,” says one of the cards, depicting a mountain no-tsu with the prayer of the soldier-Danish ma-teryu and entering the window-but-an-ge-la.
Higher powers could help both our relatives and ourselves in the battlefield. So, on the other hand, you can find confirmation of another postcard from the RSL funds. Here is a report from the “Exchange News” dated September 25-Rya 1914: “After our departure, our officer with the whole po-lu-es-cad-ro-nom saw . They just settled down on the bi-woo-a-ke. It was 11 o'clock in the evening. Then a row of people with an astonished face arrives and says: “You’re a so-blah-go-ro-die, go -those". R. walked along and suddenly sees the Mother of God in the sky with Jesus Christ on one hand, and with the other hand decrees -va-yu-shchi to the west. All the lower ranks stand on their knees and pray to the heavenly Po-kro-vi-tel-tse. Then this vision turned into a big cross and disappeared. After this, a big battle broke out in the back-pas-de-de near Av-gu-stovym, which meant a big one be-good."
Yesterday, July 31, the opening of the exhibition “Two wars in the destinies of our fellow countrymen” took place at the city museum of local lore in Kropotkin. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the start of the First World War of 1914-1918. within the framework of the cultural and educational program “If we remember this war, what right do others have to forget”, designed for 2014-2018. This year, as part of this program, the museum has prepared a series of events “Chronicle of a Forgotten War” for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War (1914-1918).
The exhibition presents local history material: photographs of fellow countrymen who took part in the war, memories of eyewitnesses, fragments of bladed weapons from the First World War, a symbolic map of Europe 1914-1915.
For the first time, a sheet from the newspaper “Chronicle of War in Russia” No. 14761 dated April 3, 1915 from the stock collection “Printed Products” is presented.
A special place in the exhibition was occupied by a memorial showcase dedicated to Mikhail Vasilyevich Cherevchin, a holder of two St. George Crosses of the 3rd and 4th degree, a participant in the First World War, the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. The display case contains documents, photographs and archival certificates confirming Mikhail Vasilyevich’s participation in the First World War.
The exhibition section “White Doves”, dedicated to the sisters of mercy during the First World War, presents photographs, postcards (copies) of the sisters of mercy, medical instruments of the early twentieth century: glass syringes and needles, glass jars for storing medicines and a Petri dish.
The exhibition concluded with the section “Achievements of Technology and Weapons during the First World War,” which presented photographs of new weapons and military equipment developed during the war.
As part of the opening of the exhibition, a ceremonial meeting was held with representatives of the Cossack society of the region and the city.
The chairman of the Council of Old Men of the City Cossack Society, Yuri Ivanovich Bezvershenko, and the centurion of the Kropotkin City Cossack Society, Honored Cultural Worker of the Kuban, Vladimir Nikolaevich Fomenko, gave a welcoming speech. A pleasant surprise for museum workers was a gift from Vladimir Nikolaevich - two volumes of the book “Pages of Cossack Glory” about the participation of the Cossacks of the Caucasian department of the Kuban Cossack Army in the First World War of 1914-1917.
From Art. Temizhbekskaya, the ataman of the Cossack organization “Lineets”, captain Nikolai Dmitrievich Sitnikov, and the deputy chieftain, captain Vasily Fedorovich Klimenko, came to the event at the city museum. Nikolai Dmitrievich read poems of his own composition about the Cossacks who took part in the First World War. Vasily Fedorovich handed over to the museum funds a photo report on the installation of a monument to the participants of the First World War on the territory of the Holy Archangel Michael's Church of St. Temizhbekskaya. Among the honored guests of the event were the esul of the city Cossack army Vladimir Adolfovich Kozhukhar, the chairman of the Kropotkin primary organization of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists (ROIA), the director of the Central Library Library Lyubov Mikhailovna Trepilchenko.
The honorary donor of the museum, Vladimir Adolfovich, donated to the museum a machine gun box (cartridge box) for the Maxim machine gun model 1911. and a model of a two-masted sailboat, made by hand. Lyubov Mikhailovna Trepilchenko gave the Kropotkin Museum a selection of the newspaper “Notes of an Archivist” for 2017 and the first half of 2018, and candidate of political sciences, professor, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia Anatoly Vasilyevich Marinchenko - the monograph “Bloody Hard Times”.
Deputy Ataman of the regional Cossack society, Jr., spoke about the participation of Cossacks in the First World War. sergeant Alexander Nikolaevich Ignatov and member of the society of historians and archivists Konstantin Vladimirovich Kataley.
Ataman of the Cossack organization "Lineets" captain Nikolai Dmitrievich Sitnikov and centurion of the Kropotkin city Cossack society, honored cultural worker of the Kuban Vladimir Nikolaevich Fomenko were awarded the "Award of the Cross of St. George" in honor of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War of 1914-1918.
For the students of the “Patriot” club and guests of the event, GKM researcher I.V. Vinnikov. gave a lecture “Residents of the Romanovsky farm on the Caucasian front of the First World War.”
History is always a lesson. Only by mastering it can you confidently step into the future without repeating the mistakes of the past.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War, several exhibitions were opened in Moscow. Everyone talks about the war in their own way. "VD" chose three of them. After visiting each one, you want to return.
The war that ended the world (547345)
“It’s not the calendar century that’s approaching—the real twentieth century,” Akhmatova’s hoarse voice sounds from the speaker at the entrance to the exhibition hall at MAMM on the sixth floor. The lines of “Poem without a Hero,” written by Anna Andreevna about the pre-revolutionary and pre-war years, measuredly read by the author, are like an epigraph to the museum’s exhibition about the First World War, “The War That Ended the Peace.”
This exhibition was one of the first to be opened in Moscow on the 100th anniversary of the start of the war, and remains one of the most interesting, “personal”, and emotional. There are posters, reproductions, audio, video, and documentary evidence. All this helps to see and hear the war as the people who lived in those years and directly participated in it saw and heard it. But the main thing here, of course, is the photographs. Hundreds and hundreds of photographs from private collections and museum collections from all over the world. The photographs trace the events of the First World War from the day of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia, which became the reason for the outbreak of the war, to the results of the catastrophe that claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, maimed even more, reshaped Europe and made the world completely different.
There are some really scary episodes here. For example, photographs and memories of the first ever use of chemical weapons, the spraying of poisonous chlorine at Ypres. “The German government prepared for the operation carefully and secretly,” and now, with a “fair wind,” 180 thousand kilograms of asphyxiating gas are released. "A yellowish-green cloud moved towards the British positions, penetrating trenches and shelters." “Panic gripped the troops”: it was almost impossible to hide from the poison that made it impossible to breathe. Then 15 thousand people were injured, of which five thousand died.
There are photographs (including stereo pairs) from the trenches, from battlefields, from hospitals and prisoner camps, from factories where military equipment was made, and from villages empty after the war. Soldiers bathing horses and soldiers picturesquely positioned on the spreading branches of a tree (“Waiting for Mail”). Officers, with interest, twirling a never-before-seen projectile in their hands. A bear cub hugging a dog (“Bear, mascot of the Royal Navy Armored Car Squadron”). A military man, intently aiming his gun upward, looking like an astronomer observing the stars (“Ensign Khomka. Shooting at an airplane”). “Prisoners of the British Army” - a countless field of heads in helmets and caps. "International Tracing Agency. Missing Persons Department” - a young woman goes through the countless cards in the file cabinet one by one. “Regimental artist”, “regimental actor”, “clown”, inviting the camp “residents” crowded around the camp cafe.
Akhmatova’s voice is heard through the roar of explosions, the neighing of horses, and the crackle of gunfire. There is a video on the wall near the speaker at the entrance, and a mirror opposite. Looking up, you see yourself against the backdrop of successive frames of military chronicles. This is what the entire exhibition is about.
The exhibition “The War that Ended Peace” is on view at the Multimedia Art Museum (Ostozhenka, 16) until October 19. Tickets: 50-400 rubles.
Moscow during the First World War (549935)
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A few minutes walk down Ostozhenka and we’re at the Museum of Moscow. An exhibition in the third building of the museum, which occupies the building of the Provision Warehouses, which still remember the events of those years.
This exhibition opened on August 1 - this very day (according to the new style) is considered the day the war began for Russia. In the current capital 100 years ago, the first days and weeks of the war primarily caused a rise in enthusiasm and desire to help the country and the front - both from the city government and ordinary Muscovites. Then a stream of refugees and wounded poured into the city - and Moscow did everything to take care of them.
“Food is necessary for the wounded on their difficult route. Everything is needed. Donate everything. Who can do what to dress, nourish and comfort the wounded: short fur coats, army jackets, coats, jackets, trousers, boots, felt boots, galoshes, shirts, caps, mittens, warm gloves, as well as any material and stock for clothing and linen for the wounded and families , dry foods: cereals, tea, sugar, tobacco, dishes and books - everything will be accepted with gratitude into our trucks, which will travel throughout Moscow, to every house, to every apartment - everything will be given immediately into grateful hands in hospitals and warehouses "
Exhibition “Moscow during the First World War”. Source: Museum of Moscow
Posters with this text and a drawing by Konstantin Korovin depicting Dmitry Donskoy, a symbol of Russian military glory and victory, were hung throughout Moscow on September 21, 1914. It was noted: “We need help as soon as possible, before the onset of frost.” The “van gathering” lasted five weeks. Muscovites carried “everything that can nourish and comfort the wounded” in tons: in the photographs of those years, the reception and sorting points for accepted donations were literally piled to the ceiling with clothes and books. In a large display case next to the van (these were the “trucks” that accepted gifts from Muscovites) - samples of those donations: shirts, coarse yellowish linen and white cambric ones, books (Leskov, Fet, Saltykov-Shchedrin), tea and chamomile, cotton wool and cookies, scissors , pliers, binoculars, German-Russian dictionary “Blago”.
In the next room there is even more about charity. The mannequins are dressed in costumes of those years and are belted with sashes. “To help the victims of war” (the very first collection, “circle”: they sold flags, postcards with Pasternak’s drawing “Wounded Warrior”; the collection was organized three weeks after the start of the war, August 20-12, 1914, collected 307,822 rubles, 15,000 rubles things). “For tobacco for a soldier” and “For the fight against consumption” (“White Chamomile Day” - April 20 they offered to buy a flower). “Buy a red egg” (one-day collection for Easter to help street children), and so on. Posters opposite on the wall list more and more special charity days: donations for portable baths, one day when all merchants donate 5 percent to the Home for the Invalids, an exhibition of the “Jack of Diamonds” to help the children of soldiers, “Kapustnik” of the Union of Artists of Moscow - the Russian Army and victims of war. Coming out of the exhibition, you see mannequins, female and children, opening it from the other side. On the backs of the white figures there are red spots with splashes, as if from gunshots. The choir sings “God Save the Tsar” without interruption.
The exhibition “Moscow during the First World War” runs at the Museum of Moscow (Zubovsky Blvd., 2) until October 19. Tickets: 50-100 rubles.
Look into the eyes of war. Russia in the First World War in newsreels, photographs, documents (549685)
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The sounds of gunfire literally cut through the right hall of the New Manege from floor to ceiling. The floor here is covered with uneven tin sheets, each step of each visitor gives rise to ringing, echoing “discharges”. At first they make you flinch. From the ceiling to the floor there are large red and white canvases, this is the “War” space. In the hall opposite there are white, translucent canvases, music and songs of those years are playing. This is "The World".
The exhibition, divided into two large parts and containing an incredible amount of information, can hardly be called just an exhibition. It is more of an interactive historical and educational art project. The huge stand that opens the “War”, sequentially, accompanied by “moving picture” cards and brief explanations, tells about the events of the war, from 1914 to 1918. Behind it are photographs (including, again, stereo pairs); “holographic pictures” that look a little magical, depicting military equipment of those years (armored vehicles, airplanes, a Maxim machine gun). A special pride is “a complete electronic copy of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty,” which secured peace. On the walls there are canvases: the Italian futurist Gino Severini and his “Sanitation Train” in flags and crosses, Pavel Filonov with the alarming “German War”, Paul Nash with works brought from London (the heart is especially aching from “Sunrise” with a battlefield devastated by battle) , Petrov-Vodkin and the painting “On the Line of Fire” that makes him freeze for a moment, like a warrior dying from a bullet.
“The World” contains the same detailed reconstruction of the pre-war events that decided the beginning of the war, plus a story about life on the home front. Personal diary of Nicholas II (pages from August 19 and 20: “Germany declared war on us”; “A good day, especially in the sense of lifting spirits! (...) Signed the manifesto declaring war”). Telegrams exchanged between members of the same family, which was then “at the helm” of all of Europe, “master of the Russian land” Nikolai (Nicky), the Englishman Georgie and the German Kaiser Willy, Wilhelm II. There are two exciting films on screens in separate rooms. One is about the relations before the war between the members of the imperial “family” in general and the three mentioned - in detail: the origins of the conflict become quite clear. The second, which looks like a real detective story, is about the day of the murder of Franz Ferdinand by student Gavrilo Princip (after all, this murder might not have happened if Gavrilo had not gone to the coffee shop for a cup of coffee after the first, failed attempt by the “team”). There is also art: “Archangel Michael” by Vasnetsov and Goncharova’s epic cycle “Mystical Images of War”, Aristarkh Lentulov with the sketch “Solemn prayer in the Kremlin in honor of the victory of the Russian army” and the piercingly beautiful “St. George the Victorious” by Filonov. All are originals.
There is a lot of other video evidence, documents and photographs, but the longest time you can stand in front of the interactive information screens. These unique “electronic books” are open in abundance to every “reader” throughout the exhibition space. Different sections in them tell about the heroes of battles and about life in the rear, about women during the war and how it affected children, about what the battles were like - and life on the front line and in the reserve. Captivatingly written, with quotes from eyewitnesses and photographs, these stories are much livelier and more interesting than textbook chapters, and the history of the war is told in such a way that it is truly memorable. Unfortunately, this project is scheduled to close earlier than others - until September 28. But you can still have time to see it (and it’s worth doing).
Exhibition “Look into the eyes of war. Russia in the First World War in newsreels, photographs, documents” runs in the New Manege (Georgievsky Lane, 3, building 3) until September 28. Tickets: 100-250 rubles.