Today at the State Historical Museum opens large-scale international exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the First world war

GIM, August 21, 2014
Moscow, Red square, 1

State historical Museum opens a large-scale international exhibition dedicated to the 100-летию outbreak of the First world voyny@

Main task of the exhibition — to restore the historical memory of the war, which for many years was in our country is forgotten, and in the history books was referred to as "imperialist".

the Collection associated with the history of the First world war, in the Historical Museum began to collect immediately after the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, the Museum was created by the Division of the current war. Subsequently, the Museum collections were enriched by trophy commissions Military collections-исторического Artillery and historical museums, complexes passed down by the families of war veterans, as well as items brought from expeditions from the battlefield. As a result of the Historical Museum has developed quite a large collection of monuments on the history of the First world voyny@

Among the miraculously preserved in revolutionary times exhibits — relics of the regimental museums of the Russian army, about participation in combat operations illustrious regiments — Leib-гвардии Transfiguration, Finland, 4-го Rifle Imperial family and several other military units and military utilis@

the exhibition presents the banners, weapons, military awards, military life, maps of the battles, as well as posters, drawings, documents, fotografie@

the Museum houses a collection of paintings made during the fighting brigade of frontline artists. This narrative scenes, and images of knights of St. George — lower ranks, officers and generals, including N. Yudenich, M. Alexeev, G. Khan of Nakhichevan, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich@

of great value are exhibits connected with the names of generals A. Brusilov, S. Bankova, A. GUTOR, I. Dowbor-Мусницкого. For the first time the exhibition presents the uniform of a Marshal of the British army, which belonged to Emperor Nicholas II and the uniforms chef 27-го Dragoons of the king of great Britain Edward VII.

using documentary film- and photographs will be shown of the events that took place during the war. Multimedia equipment will be visually recreated the huge fronts of the First world voyny@

For exhibition in the Historical Museum of the materials provided by many Russian and foreign museums and archives: Imperial war Museum (London), the Army Museum (Paris), the Bavarian army Museum (Ingolstadt), the Polytechnic Museum, the Museum of the Putilov factory, the Historical archives-документального Department of the MFA of the Russian Federation, Russian Federation state archive, archive of cinema and photo documents, the Political archive of the German Foreign Ministry and drugie@

the Organizers hoped that the exhibition "the First world. The last battle of the Russian Empire" will become not only a significant event in cultural, social and scientific life of Moscow and Russia, but will also provide impetus to the creation of the Museum of the First world war in our country. The exhibition is accompanied by a collection of scientific research and catalog@

Source: shm.ru