If you know exactly what comes into direct duties of the executioner and have an idea of what the latter differed from the inquisitor, if you imagine the mechanism of action of the known instruments of torture, if you know what is the fundamental difference between the penalty and torture, then most likely, the Museum of corporal punishment in Moscow, you have already visited.For the uninitiated, it is meant our virtual tour.
about the history of the museum and its creator
Museum of corporal punishment in Moscow began with a pair of ordinary handcuffs.Then they were joined by another one, and another, and then in the collection were the most that neither is a real shackle.These things are just going to Moscow man, historian, Valery Pereverzev.His private collection is enriched, and eventually all of her subjects felt cramped in the same hands.So, at the end of 2011, the number has increased Moscow museums - Valery Pereverzev opened the Old Arbat Street.
The remarkable museum of corporal punishment on the Arbat?
said his exposition - the only one of its kind, it is impossible.Such institutions exist throughout the world, and even in Russia there are several interesting exhibitions on a similar theme.For example, the history of the Gulag Museum in Moscow and the Museum of Torture in St. Petersburg.Yet this very remarkable exhibition of Moscow.
its founder invested his heart and soul into the work.He conducts tours, meeting with guests and prepares exhibits for the exhibition.Valery - a man is truly passionate, apparently, that's why it waited initiative a success.
Museum of corporal punishment in Moscow, lives its special atmosphere.And it helps to create not scream, taped by a handful of actors, not sham body prostrate on dybah.Valery Pereverzev himself on this score has this opinion: carefully chosen decorations, and laid both under the menubar executioner - the best help to feel the atmosphere of medieval cruelty.
Exhibit
exhibits of the museum are shocking.Many of them - authentic torture devices impregnated with energy of suffering and death.Some also made drawings by modern masters of the Middle Ages.But first things first.
In the first room of interested visitors met executioners.No, of course not real, but only their portraits.They look down on tourists from the walls of the museum, and if they see off their heavy looks.It is interesting that all these portraits were written by Valery Pereverzev.This exhibition is probably the most harmless it may seem: it does not plunge into a state of shock, but a wave of gloomy atmosphere of cruelty and suffering great tunes.
second room - a workshop of torture.Here you can see the terrible weapons and equipment, learn more about their intended purpose and boundaries of human cruelty and ingenuity.
Exposure number 3 talks about the corporal punishment.It also provides tools with which once butchers do justice.In addition, the guide will tell about the features of punishment, their forms and methods.
fourth room - a place which collects macabre tools to enforce the death penalty.Comments are superfluous, it is better to listen to a guide in the museum.
fifth exhibition completes familiarization with the program.Here are the items that are used for punishment, torture and executions today.In fact, all these things had their medieval ancestors, with which visitors are already familiar in other halls.Since corporal punishment Museum in Moscow is becoming the place that makes it possible not only to get acquainted with some moments of history, but also to reflect on what we do in the present.
most interesting exhibits
Do you know what a St. Andrew's cross and how it differs from the cross of humility?St. Andrew's cross - is X-shaped device for torture.The victim was fixed on it with the help of ropes pulling her limbs.Hands and feet nailed to the cross, this person did not receive blood flow and eventually died out.The name of this instrument of torture received on the grounds that on such a cross was crucified Andrew.
Cross humility - a device by which the victim was fixed in one position, leaving the possibility of moving her hands.Cross humility is usually used if needed to immobilize the witch.And Andrew's cross, and the cross of humility can be seen at the Museum on the Arbat.
There is also a trap for witch.They are fitted with metal spikes on a long stick.Studded part is intended to cover the neck of a witch holding a woman at a safe distance from her executioner.So it can be deduced, for example, to the gallows, and not be afraid that it will begin to conjure.
Do you know what a "uterine cat"?This device, by which the internal accused of pedophilia or bestiality man extracted through his anus.It does it always in front of the local audience.
If we are talking about cats, not to mention a device that few people indifferent.It kotofon.Externally it is very similar to the piano, but that's when you press injure kittens placed in special compartments kotofona.They emit a terrifying melody of fear, pain and agony.Indeed, for some people in those wild times nothing was sacred.
few words about the alleged immorality and psychopathology, as well as reviews
In some particularly susceptible individuals alone name of the museum makes an indelible impression.Founders, employees and visitors are people anoint the mentally unstable, and a visit to the museum feel terrible sedition.Is this justified?No way.
As recognized himself Valery Pereverzev, Museum of corporal punishment on the Arbat did not think the seat of vice and sodomy.In fact, his visit and scare some should not.Just corporal punishment, torture and the death penalty - as much a part of our history as the exploits of the Union Army in the war against fascism.And disown this unsightly part of the past is still not completely honest.
By the way, tourists usually come out of the museum experience.It is said that the guide is very clearly immersed in the atmosphere of obscurantism that prevailed in the Middle Ages.Well, perhaps it is still better to see with their own eyes.
Where to go?
Thus, important information for those who have firmly decided to visit the Museum of corporal punishment in Moscow.Address - street Arbat, 25. Come, come, look for a tour can be from 12 to 22 hours daily.Find a museum is easy, near the metro station "Arbat".
What to take with the money?
pay attention to those who want to visit the Museum of corporal punishment: the ticket price depends on your gender.Women visiting the museum will cost 300 rubles, and the men - a hundred rubles more.Why is that?It's just a little whim of the creator.
Persons under 18 years of age to enter the museum allowed only when accompanied by adult friends, parents and grandparents.Guided tours.Prices are better to specify by phone.Tickets to the museums of Moscow, you can usually buy in the museums themselves at the entrance.
A camera can bring?
No.This exhibition, as well as many other museums of Moscow, for personal photo archives and dissemination in the network to make prohibits.The fact that some of the exhibits are so shocking that people with weak mentality and children can cause psychological trauma.So come and see the show yourself.Unless, of course, are not afraid.
