The exhibition on the personality formation in the urban environment in the 19th-21st centuries opens in the Museum of Moscow's History on December 7. Photographs from family albums, household articles and costumes from the museum's depositories create an atmosphere of Moscow's everyday life. The materials about the family of the last Russian emperor granted by the State Archives of the Russian Federation are of special interest.
The October revolution, New Economic Policy, the formation of the Soviet Union, repressions of the 1930s, the Great Patriotic War, Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, international festivals and sports competitions and the political crisis of the 1990s are presented as the historic background of destinies of certain Muscovites.
The exposition entitled "Traditions of home education in Russia in the 19th - early 20th century" will open in the Kuzminki museum of the Russian estate culture on December 9.
Applied art works of the 19th century, paintings, and documents about home education of the Golitsyn princes (owners of the Kuzminki estate) will deal with children's education and upbringing in the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries and traditional Russian holidays, Christmas, Shrovetide and Easter.
The exhibition "I Serve My Fatherland!" will open in the Lefortovo History Museum on December 10. It is dedicated to the history of primary military training in Russia in the 17th - early 20th centuries.
Moscow's eastern districts, Preobrazhenskoye, Izmailovo and Lefortovo, are the birthplace of the first Russian regular army where in the end of the 17th century young Peter the Great created his 'fun' regiments. Thus he laid the foundations of military training in Russia.
Showpieces from the Museum of Moscow's History, materials of the state archives and Moscow's military training institutions reflect the history of cadet corps and military schools. The exhibition features engravings, rare books, applied art pieces, armaments, military uniforms and insignia, training articles, photographs and household goods.
Moreover, the exhibition deals with modern institutions of primary military training in Moscow.
