The exhibition “First Motors of Russia” will open on March 3 in VDNKh, and on weekends you can go there with the whole family.
The first “self-propelled carriage” arrived in Russia from abroad in 1894, and at first there were very few of them. However, our country tried to keep up with foreign powers at the pace of the introduction of cars, and at the beginning of the 20th century there were already 12,000 units in the fleet of Imperial Russia.
In Russia, not only cars of all brands known at that time were imported, but also produced their own brands. The car companies of Yakovlev, Lessner, Leitner, Duks and others were engaged in this. The Russian-Baltic coachwork plant produced the famous Russo-Balts, and the Russian car plant of Ivan Puzyrev produced cars under the founder’s name.
All this can be seen in pavilion No. 54 of the Special Purpose Garage Museum of the FSO of Russia. The historic interiors feature unique exhibits from the storage rooms of the Polytechnic Museum.
The center of gravity of the exhibition will be the domestic “Russo-Balt” – the only remaining passenger car of this brand in the world.
Here you can also see bizarre vehicles with a century of history – the three-wheeled German Phenomobile, the French De Dion-Bouton, in which passengers sat in front of the driver and looked at him. There will also be a British City and Suburban electric car, specially made for the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna.
The exhibition runs until October 28, 2023.
Source, photo: Special Purpose Garage Museum