"Moscow. 1957 Festival of Friendship "

February 6, 2017, at 15.00, at the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan opens a unique exhibition.

In 1957, Moscow hosted the VI World Festival of Youth and Students - the most massive in the history of the festival movement. It was attended by 34 thousand people from 131  countries. A symbol of  grand forum - Dove of Peace has been specifically designed by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.

This excitement is quite understandable: the foreigners were interested to look behind the "iron curtain", learn how and what the Soviet youth lives. For the latter, also opened a completely different world: a new fashion, lifestyle, music.

The exhibition will feature unique pictures of the journalist and patron of the arts, artists and cultural figures  Leonard Dzhanaddy, a reporter for the newspaper «L'Illustré», and the participant as part of the Swiss delegation. The exhibition will complement complexes of authentic material of  the participants of the youth festival of Tatarstan – K.V. Kalimonov, G.H. Tagirov, V.G. Nikitin. Extensive collections of the National Museum of Tatarstan will allow to represent  an official  and everyday life of the Soviet man  of the 50s. Diversity of exhibition objects from private collections and souvenirs issued to twelve World Festival of Youth and Students in 1947 and 1985.

The exhibition is a significant and symbolic, since this jubilee for the VI World Festival of the year, it returned to Russia. XIX World Youth Festival will be held from  October 4 to 22  in Moscow (a solemn parade of the delegations) and Sochi (the festival itself).

Also,it is  scheduled to meet with members of youth festivals of different years, master classes on sequential shooting and musical evenings, according to PT National Museum exhibition activity department