Chebots, “Angel” and 6 rubles beef: What should you pay attention to in the new exhibition of the Moscow Museum.

Male Chebots

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Chebots are low leather boots and the oldest shoes that come to us. They didn’t have heels and a hard back, so they wear out quickly in the heel. The Chebots dates back to the second half of Xi, the beginning of the XII century. Archaeologists found one of them during the excavations of the mound in the Matveevsky Village (current Ochakovo-Matveevskoye region). It is assumed that the master who produced it is not only a shoemaker but also a tanner: The second Chebot was also found in a mound tomb – only on the Klyazma River in the Solnechnogorsk region.

The temporal rings of the first Slavs

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The temporal rings, another exhibition of the first Slavs period, are one of the most characteristic female jewels of that time. In the exhibition, they can be seen on a specially created white bust. Annalist northern people and the grandchildren of the radias, five or seven long beams in the form of a crescent by sea -type rings.

Novo-Jerusalem Monastery Bell from Voskresensky Cathedral

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This bell weighing 70 kg was specially poured for the Voskresensky Cathedral of the Novo-Jerusalem Monastery. The date of celebration, the names of the customers (Patriarch Nikon, Tsarinai Mikhailovich, Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna, Tsarevichi Alexy, Theodore and Simeon), Founding (Monk Sergius), the author of the text (Monk Sergius) and Manastir (Archimandrite Levonide).

Angel’s sculpture

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The figure of the angel is a real treasure of the Moscow Museum, a rare example of the wooden temple statue in the early XIX century in the early XIX centuries. Such angel figures are sometimes placed on the hills of the iconostasis next to the cross. In 1997, Melek fell into the collection of the Moscow Museum, and that this unique outpatient statue could decorate the upper part of the iconostasis of the John-Baptist monastery in Ivanovo Gorka in Moscow. The statue was abandoned: a wooden base and chalk soil – Levkas – needed urgent restoration. The glue, usually holding the leaf gold, was practically lost and gilding was only preserved in clothing folds. The sculpture is an academician, ie in the study with the Russian Wood Statue of Russia’s All-Russian Artistic Scientific and Restore Center. Grabar. They managed to protect a layer of soil, bond and stop the destruction of the monument.

Poster of a charity activity

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Since the beginning of the 20th century, Russian aid organizations usually carried out “flowers”. For example, on the Day of White Daisy, on the Blue Flower Day – they gathered funds to combat tuberculosis for sick and poor children. In exchange for donations, the townspeople took an artificial flower that could be fixed to clothes and thus show their participation. This poster was taken to an event on May 5-6, 1916 in favor of a summer school colonies circle (a child camp for children from families in need of benevolent support).

XIX Century Prices

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For the fair, the Moscow Museum team developed unique new maps, infographics and drawings about the development of urban toponi, treasures, balls and theaters about the development of industry and charity. One of these infographics can be found on the wall in the peasants of the 19th century. POOD (16.3 kg) of the first class beef (16.3 kg), a pound (0.45 kg) sour cream cost 25 cents and cottage cheese at the cheapest – 6 kolecks per pound.

Movement of the Savvinsky compound

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In the second half of the 1930s, the movement of the buildings became one of the distinguishing features of Moscow’s reconstruction. Some structures did not correspond to the new Gorky Street (Tverskaya) community, so they were pushed into the depths of neighborhoods for new houses with the help of specially built rails. The museum collection has the layout of a residential building number 24 in Gorky Street (former Savvinsky Farmstead).