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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 exhibit in the Museum

from 19-02-2025

Emperor Alexander II went down in history as a reformer. He began his reign with a wide range of reforms that gradually affected all spheres of public and economic life in Russia. These complex, sometimes radical, measures became known as the Great Reforms. They also affected all ethnic groups represented in the Russian Empire.
Already in his coronation manifesto on August 26,1856 Emperor Alexander II abolished the institution of cantonists: all Jews under the age of 20 were returned from military service to their parents. That move can be pinpointed as the beginning of military reforms that lasted almost until the end of 1874. Changes in the military department affected not only the functionality of the ministry apparatus but also the system of relationships between military personnel in the active army.
In 1866, a circular was issued prescribing the exemption of Jews from service on important Jewish holidays. The circular was supplied with a holiday calendar for the said year.

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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