A large exhibition “LENIN” will open at the Historical Museum on Red Square on October 16. This is the first biographical exhibition in three decades that will tell about the key moments in the life of the leader during the October Revolution of 1917 and after it.
from the collection of the State Historical Museum
Vladimir Lenin during a walk through the Kremlin in 1918.
Visitors will be presented with more than 200 unique exhibits from the collections of the country’s leading museums and archives, the collections of the State Historical Museum, the Gorki Leninskie Museum-Reserve, the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the RGASPI. Some of the materials will be presented to the general public for the first time.
At the exhibition you will see the Browning, which was in the hands of Fanny Kaplan at the time of the assassination attempt on Lenin, White Guard posters (their collection was kept in the leader’s special folder) in the Kremlin, an iconic painting by Vladimir Pchelin, where Vladimir Ulyanov is depicted at the height of the fateful events of 1917. This work was almost immediately sent to the museum’s storerooms because of its depiction of “enemies of the people” – Kamenev, Trotsky and others.
Visitors will hear the recorded voice of the Revolution – a unique audio recording of Lenin’s address to the Red Army in 1919, and will also see rare documentary footage.
As the museum said, the purpose of the exhibition is to show the phenomenon of Lenin, to reveal the scale of his personality, to make one think about his role in world history: “The greatness and tragedy of his legacy deserve deep understanding, and the exhibition allows us to explore this phenomenon through the prism of significant historical events and unique artifacts “.
“Comrade Lenin is sweeping rubbish from the face of the Earth.” Caricature published in the newspaper “Bednota”. 1918 Photo: from the collection of the State Historical Museum
Lenin is still one of the most significant figures in Russian history. In six years (that’s how long the post-revolutionary period of the leader’s life lasted), he was able to determine the vector of the country’s development for decades to come.
“The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the Civil War, the creation of the Comintern, the launch of ambitious projects to eliminate illiteracy and the GOELRO plan – all these events not only changed Russia, but also formed the basis of the future Soviet power. It was the Soviet Union that, two decades later, would play a decisive role in the victory over fascism in the Second World War,” explained the Historical Museum.
Source: rodina-history.ru
