Exhibition "The First World War" opens at the Display Hall of Yelabuga State Museum Reserve
September 3, at 12:30pm, an exhibition "The First World War" opens in the Display Hall of YSMR. This is a joint project of the State Historical Museum (Moscow) and Yelabuzhsky State Museum.
This year, one hundred years turns since the beginning of the First World War 1914 - 1918 period. This war, in which 3 states took part, had led to an unprecedented hitherto casualties, collapse of four empires and emergence of a new world order.
The main purpose of the proposed project is restoring a historical memory of the war, which now in Russia is called as "forgotten."
The exhibition features electronic copies of photos, documents, maps, placards, drawings by contemporaries, cards, autographs of the WWI times.
Exhibits picked up on chronological and thematic principles, covering the period beginning shortly before outbreak of hostilities and ending by year 1918. By means of historical documents, they tell about battles, heroes, heroism, on the front, everyday life, life on the home front, political mood, charity, and other realities of the then Russian actuality.
Among the rare publications , prewar card "What does Germany wants" and "Map of the future of Europe, which Wilhelm " King of Europe " could not expect to see. Of great historical interest, both of these cards indicate serious geopolitical ambitions of Germany and Russia at the beginning of the war.
Besides, the exhibition presents patriotic, charitable and satirical placards, a huge collection of which are stored at the State Historical Museum. They clearly indicate that the wave of military and political propaganda that swept Russia in 1914 and sharply subsided by the beginning of 1915, as well as a broad and diverse charitable activities of various public organizations actively continued all through the war.
The exhibition displays a series of chocolate wrappers "Gallant army" with "popular print " of soldiers of Russia, France, Belgium, Japan, which, along with other packages demonstrate popularity and demand for military themes in those years.
Of great interest are drawings by team of artists working in theater in 1914 -1917 years. Hands of front-line artists created a portrait gallery of famous Knights of St. George, most of which are stored in the State Historical Museum.
Splendid documentary evidence of the era are letters from the front, a letter from the German prisoner of war camps, as well as essays, written by students on subject of war and the February Revolution.
Of particular interest for history amateurs will be autographs by Tsar Nicholas II, general A.A.Brusilov, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, journalist V.A. Gilyarovsky.
Facsimile abdication of the emperor, signed March 2, 1917, at 15 o’clock and 5 minutes, in Pskov, sums up an important milestone of the last war of the Russian Empire.
Final document of the exhibition is a map of the Brest peace, reflecting territorial losses of Russia, followed after its withdrawal from the war, and conclusion of a separate treaty with the military-political bloc of the Central Powers, the press service of YSMR informs.
Press service
Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan