Historical Museum presents the first collection of these of test , Russian gingerbread 1876 - 2012. The show is timed to Shrove . As part of the show will be a master class on painting gingerbread .

Gingerbread long and firmly established in the Russian way of life . They were present in a peasant family , and at the king's table. For example, on the occasion of the birth of Peter I « to meet custom" was arranged "homeland table" in the Palace of Facets , where the most prominent place occupied and served as an ornament huge gingerbread gingerbread . One of them was with the emblem of the Moscow state .

Ornamental expressiveness and flavor variety carrot always attracted attention . It is known that white gingerbread Tver printing differed mint flavor and " originality poshiba ." A famous Archangel silhouette gingerbread - " Roe " - decorated with colored sugar glaze. Honorable gingerbread covered with gold leaf and " colored sugars " , recalling the precious enamel than treat. Hence the definition of " Susalny stick" , ie, gilt . Gingerbread fed the poor , gave a sign of love , in the XVIII century was baked gingerbread alphabet . Touching sound warnings on the gingerbread as " Papenko buy " or " buy Mamenko ." Gingerbread -shirts were more expensive . There was a saying: " We the people are not scientists , eat gingerbread unwritten ", ie, without inscriptions .

in XVII - XVIII centuries gingerbread carts were exported to major markets of the country . Several centuries famous for their cakes and Vyaz'ma Ustyug , Vologda and Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver and Gorodets . Gingers were of different sizes and shapes, from small gingerbread with nail ( they were sold by weight) to a huge gingerbread gingerbread meter . Fairs put special ovens for baking large custom gingerbread. So , in Tver drove to the wedding cake on two carts . To make it into the house , removed the door and on the door brought this huge gingerbread loaf on holiday table. Traditional gingerbread stories , these are favorite images of folk art, as lions, fish, birds , towers , double-headed eagles , Braids , riders and horses .

most ancient kind of product is molded gingerbread cake . This is a complex and unique gingerbread production which is based on manual labor and personal view of the author about beauty. These cakes are baked on different occasions over the centuries. Another type of gingerbread products is printed gingerbread . They were baked using patterned gingerbread planks and had ritual significance at solemn festive feasts . Only in the XIX century, they become child's play and delicacy .

In the XIX century there silhouette gingerbread, mostly for children . Silhouette gingerbread produced using tin metal strips bent in the form of the contour horse, bird or ship. On the rolled gingerbread dough superimposed outline , silhouette obtained product was baked , and then another hot cake covered with icing .

Centuries passed , many new gingerbread stories , but still Gingerbread - Traditional Russian delicacy - loved by children and adults .

Source : press Release State Historical Museum