St. Petersburg - the city is not only a beautiful architecture, but also a heavy fate.Since its inception, North Venice constantly anyway are drawn into any military conflict.This is due primarily to the fact that the city was the capital of the Russian Empire, but after the deprivation of the status of its historical significance to provoke the enemies of our country and try to destroy besiege Leningrad.On this basis, it is not surprising that among the 200 museums of St. Petersburg a lot of it is dedicated to the military past of the Russian state.About the biggest collections telling about the glorious past of Russia, who can not visit, and we will tell you.From the article, you will learn the history of the old museums and some interesting facts about their fate.
Tribute fleet
"Russia has two other real - Army and Navy," - said the Emperor Alexander III.And if ground troops were in the country since its first mention in the annals, the fleet we owe to Peter the Great.He not only founded St. Petersburg, but also opened the very first public museum, but in fact, also established a naval.Last exists today.The history of the Central Military Museum Navy counts since 1709, when it was called "Camera model" and performed purely practical function.Peter the Great ordered shipbuilders to create a half-hearted model manufactured each ship and take it to the Admiralty, where, in fact, this very institution and based.It was necessary for the exchange of experiences between artists: the ships were works of art that existed in every single copy.In addition, the model served by some peers drawings helped in the construction, at the time was drawing poorly developed.Everything changed in 1805, when the production of naval units become almost conveyor, and in engineering there was such a thing as a drawing.Model-camera due to loss of relevance by Alexander the First renamed the Maritime Museum, and it was just a collection of historical and technical curiosities.
The world's largest
central exhibition of the museum in its history changed addresses three times.Originally it was located in the main building of the Admiralty, in the 40 years of the twentieth century, moved into the house Stock Exchange on Vasilyevsky Island.At the beginning of two thousandth, on the 300th anniversary, the institution made a gift, announcing his next move.Now the Central Naval Museum lodges in Kryukov Marine Barracks, near the area of Labor.
Affiliates TSVMM
All the exhibits were not able to fit into the main building.In this regard, it was opened several new branches.It is well-known military museum of St. Petersburg - the cruiser "Aurora", the submarine "Narodovolets" on Vasilyevsky Island, and Kronstadt Fortress and the "Road of Life" in the village Osinovets.After visiting the exhibition, it is possible to trace the development of our fleet during the whole existence for three centuries.The jewel of the collection are 80 models of ships, created more by the order of Peter the Great, as well as the famous Boat of the emperor.Besides carefully reconstructed and refurbished models, and both exist in reality courts, and only the remaining projects, the exhibition TSVMM and its affiliates can see paintings, weapons used in naval battles, documents of different epochs associated with the fleet.Here you can see drawings and photos of old ships, as well as awards that received the sailors.
Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps
This is a year younger than the storage bunker, but its collection is also one of the largest in the world.It was also based on the orders of Peter the Great.Weapons were so many that soon the wooden building of the Hall of memorable objects Main Artillery Directorate (as originally called VIMAIViVS) had to rebuild.New house Artillery Historical Museum, so named collection of military and historical subjects received only in 1903, was already a brick.Today, the store gathered artillery and other major museums of St. Petersburg.In particular, in 1963, it was transferred funds engineering stories.Two years later, after the entire collection went to the Military Museum of Communications.Combining three titles available collections and the institution received its present name.Now it is the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Communication Troops.
17 thousand square meters of technology and not only
Today the museum of artillery, so we call it for short, is located in the Kronverk fortress.The 13 rooms exposed to about 900 thousand different items, by the way, since 2002 part of the exhibition is under the open sky.Basically this technology.Among the collections in VIMAIViVS - exposure and personal belongings of Russian emperors and generals of the defeated and their foreign counterparts.The museum boasts a presence in his personal weapon of Napoleon.Visitors can witness the uniforms, banners and awards different eras, paintings known battle painters, documents showing the growth and success of the army of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Russia.By the way, the museum has a little-known branch.It is dedicated to the history of Kadetstvo and is in the Maltese Chapel of Vorontsov Palace.
Military Medical Museum
St. Petersburg - a city of military glory.Oddly enough, but the battles are, in fact, mass murder, at all times, provides enhanced therapeutic activity allowed in peacetime to prolong the lives of people.Therefore, we strongly recommend a visit to explore the history of our state of combat Military Medical Museum.He is the youngest we offer - its official chronology is from 1942, when it was founded in Moscow.In the northern capital exposure it moved three years after the discovery, in 1945.Military Medical Museum presents the collection, which includes the exposition of the institution, founded by the first Emperor of Russia - Artisan hut.Museum of St. Petersburg VIMAIViVS and TIM today - it's a collection of several collections of both the Russian Empire and the USSR.
Exhibit
Military Medical Museum is located near the park and Vvedensky Vitebsk Station, in the former barracks of the Life Guards Semenov regiment.He is not only the exposition, which tells about the formation of national healing and its role in the international community and actions during the battle, but also scientific and educational center.At its base is constantly under investigation and even discoveries are made.Military Medical Museum gathered under one roof in the main doctors, not historians.A special place in the exposition is given World War II and the work of doctors in it, is also well lit nursing movement of Russia.Visiting Military Medical Museum, you will see firsthand how the treatment of various diseases over time, will be able to witness a huge collection of documents and books, as well as paintings by the great masters of painting, one way or another connected with the practice of medicine.
And that's not all ...
In order to describe all the museums in St. Petersburg, you will need quite a volume edition.We touched only the largest exposures associated with military business.St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and then St. Petersburg in its history experienced many days of fighting.During the uprising, revolutions and wars, the city was and is the capital of some of the troops of the Russian army.
