In 2001 in Moscow, it was decided to open the National Museum of the Gulag.Its founder was the AV Antonov - public figure, historian and publicist, who himself had to go through all the horrors of Stalin's camps.
Human memory is such that it is able to distort and even completely "rewrite" the available information.What events it reproduces most rapidly?Naturally, the good and the bad tends to quickly "wipe" and will no longer animate them ever.
However, in the past, our people there are events and facts that can never be forgotten, because it is our history.
One of these pages in the sad past of our great country is a gulag.Many of today's young (and, incidentally, and not so young) people badly imagine what the Gulag, some sinister role he played in the history of our nation.And earlier in the USSR was virtually no family who would not have affected the all-powerful and terrible organization.
From the history of the museum
Until 2001, the history of the Gulag existed only in the written, literary works, documents and memoirs.Her material reconstruction was possible only after there was a museum of the Gulag in Moscow.
Its creation came up with is not an ordinary person, and the person skilled, well study the history of the country, the writer-publicist, a fighter for the rights of the repressed, the Gulag prisoner who experienced the horrors of camp life for 13 years.AV Antonov - the son of the legendary officer, revolutionary by conviction, a former nobleman.
How it all began
In 2001, the Moscow mayor's office has allocated space for the museum area of 700 m².It was very run down, it demanded restoration.His only advantage was a great location - in the heart of the capital, not far from the Lubyanka, on Kuznetsky Most.
AV Antonov was approved for the position of director.He remained in office for eleven years.Unfortunately, in 2013, a 94-year life, he was gone.
collection exhibits
first personal belongings of his father to the museum gave Vladimir Antonov.Soon the former prisoners of the terrible camps, their relatives and relatives began to bring a gift priceless artifacts.These were personal belongings, books, photographs, letters and documents.In 2004, the Gulag Museum at Petrovka greeted its first visitors.
first impression
Those who fall into the museum courtyard, flanked by barbed wire, imitating the camp fence and watchtower sees, is not alone.
The exterior windows of the building are inserted twelve portraits of great men who perished in Stalin's camps.
What to see
Gulag Museum in Moscow has a permanent exhibition, which is located on 100 square meters on the second floor of the building.There are stands that inform the families of Bulat Okudzhava, George Zhzhenov and other distinguished people, as well as numerous photographs of the victims.The exhibition presents archival documents, the camp wall newspaper, maps.
Here you can see everyday objects prisoners - teapots, spoons and quilted jackets.Many talented people passed through these camps.Today, the Gulag Museum has a collection of paintings by artists-prisoners.
The museum tells the case when it came to the two older women, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria.They brought a gift store various historical materials: documents, books, letters, ex-prisoners.But of all, of course, important things, workers are most impressed brought tiny children's shoes and stockings.As it turned out, these women for 20 years on particles collected valuable materials and information about the inhabitants of Kabardino-Balkaria, who were repressed, and then at his own expense published a book about them.
One of the women held in jail cell for 3 years, having got there with his mother, when she was only eight months old.His first steps on the girl making the icy cement floor of the chamber.One went to the prison.Having seen the frozen child with bare feet, for some reason, he suddenly took pity and ordered his subordinates to buy it on the market these shoes and stockings.Vidal many museum staff can not hold back the tears, telling such stories.
On the first floor hosts a variety of exhibitions, which change frequently.Their subjects and timetable you can find on the official website of the museum.
Gulag Museum: features work
must be said that all the staff of the museum are very sensitive to the memory of those whom fate has prepared such a terrible ordeal.
The museum runs volunteer center, which consists of enthusiasts, creative people and very friendly.What does this center?Assists the museum staff to conduct meetings with veterans, visiting exhibitions, concerts.Volunteers help elderly and not very healthy people, the victims of Stalinist repression.Everyone can take active part in the work of the center.To do this, fill out a questionnaire, which will in the museum ticket office.
Reviews
All visitors to visit the Museum of the Gulag (photos that you see in our article) noted that experience strong emotions.My heart sank at the sight of the presented documents and exhibits.All visitors agree on one thing - the Museum of the Gulag must visit for everyone.To remember, we and our children and grandchildren, what Stalin's repressions and how they turned to our people.This is a must see, never to prevent a recurrence of the terrible tragedy in their native land.
Ust-Kabyrza museum "Shor Gulag"
administration of Kuzbass in memory of victims of political repression is a museum under the open sky.It is called "Shor Gulag."All its visitors striking contrast that make up the picturesque mountain Shoria, a magnificent tourist complex "Sheregesh" and a copy of the camp, fenced by barbed wire, with barracks and guard towers.
Tashtagol The area was more than 30 major points of delivery and correctional institutions.Until today there is no accurate data on how many people were killed in these walls.We only know that in the Gulag Shor had the highest mortality rate - 25%.Exhausting manual labor, lack of food, clothing, medicines, disease masse to claim lives.
Gulag Museum is located in the village of Ust-Kabyrza.Dilapidated barracks, towers armed guards, fences topped with barbed wire - all it reproduces a picture of the reality of those terrible years.
In these camps were deported Volga Germans.Until now their descendants live in the lands of the Kuzbass.After passing through the checkpoint, visitors find themselves in a realistic environment of the correctional institution.This exhibition presents the entire history of the camps in the Kuzbass region in the period from 1920 to 1950.
Interactive Zone museum gives visitors the opportunity to work hand saw - the main tool of the camp prisoners.
Mountain Shoria can each year to take at least 10,000 visitors from our country and from abroad.
Perhaps the history of any nation has dark spots.Unfortunately, the past is not correct and did not return.Museum Gulag - a "time machine" that takes us back to that terrible period of repression of the Stalinist system, where human life is worth nothing, and were disgracefully ruined thousands of lives.
