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Into the New Year with renewed enthusiasm!

from 10-01-2025

The school tournament "Museums. Parks. Manors" continues its work in the new year, 2025! Happy New Year to all participants! We hope that high school students will hurry to answer our difficult questions with renewed vigor!
The age of the tournament participants in our Museum is restricted to 8-9 and 10-11 grades! Visiting days open for participants are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 12-00 to 19-00. Prior booking is required! Additional information is published on the "Museums. Parks. Manors" webpage. Please read it before booking with us or visiting our website. Please also get acquainted with our general rules of visiting and behavior on the museum premises before arrival.

The school tournament is held jointly by the city Departments of Education and Culture. Competition rules and requirements for participation can be found on the event’s webpage https://museum.olimpiada.ru.

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New year's story of the season!

from 13-01-2025

Our Museum is privileged to possess an archive and several work models of the remarkable sculptor Lev Razumovsky (1926-2006). He dedicated a huge part of his work not only to the heroes of World War II and blockade survivors but also to the theme of peace. 
Despite losing his arm at the front, he studied to become a sculptor, which in itself is a personal heroism! Razumovsky carried the memory of the war throughout his life. He was one of the authors of the memorial Book of the Living (2004) and other documentary works about the war. All his post-war creativity was aimed at one thing - to overcome the trauma of the war, to create and glorify the beauty that peace and life give. 
Recently our colleagues from the Museum of Yule tree toys in Klin have reminded us of a little-known fact from Razumovsky’s creative biography. After the war, this incredibly courageous man, with a harsh military school behind him, became a professional creator of children's toys: more than 100 works were made after his models and produced in large numbers. Some of them were actually Yule tree toys…

Illustration: Yule tree toys "Klinskoye Podvorye". «Father Frost». Artist: L.S. Razumovsky. 1950s. "Leniigrushka Factory". Paper pulp. 35 cm.
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Military oath of allegiance for the Jews
1900s Chromolithograph on paper. 23 х 15.
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Case for a Torah scroll
Late 19 – early 20 cent. Wood, velvet, leather, and copper with embossing; freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. Height: 55.7; diameter: 23.
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Tar and kamancha, stringed musical instruments used by the Mountain Jews
First half of 20 cent. Wood. Tar: 86.5 х 15.8 х 16.5. Kamancha: 72.8 х 16 х 17.
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Woman’s holiday khalat – ‘kaltach’
First quarter of 20 cent. Blue satin, adras, and calico. 123 х 71; sleeve length: 51.
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Set of dishes for blessings over wine during the Passover seder
Second half of 19 cent. Embossed silver. Saucer: diameter: 13. Small cups (5 items; shaped as piyalas): Height: 3.5; diameter: 5. Large cup (shaped as piyala): height: 4.5; diameter: 8.5.
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Sketch of the costume of kuni-leml for a production of the theater "Kunst-Vinkl" after the A. Goldfaden's play "The Two Kuni-Lemls"
The mid. 1920's Indian ink and pencil on paper. 36 х 26,3.
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Sketch for the play "Stempenyu" by Sholem Aleichem
1966 Lithography. 75 х 52,5.
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Items for daily use manufactured by Jews in the partisan units of Polesie Belarus. Overshoes
1942 – 1944