The Gulag history Museum appeared in Moscow in 2001, near the metro station "Lubyanka". It is on Petrovka, 16, in the old house, where once was the estate Rayevskys, and later, in the 90-ies, housed a beer garden. This building is irrelevant to the Stalinist repressive machine had. Initially, the Museum was planned to open in the former firing home the NKVD on Nikolskaya street, but the organizers didn't like his close proximity to the shopping center "Nautilus" and the Tretyakov passage.
The Founder and first Director of the Museum was A. V. Antonov, the famous historian and public figure. He was the son of a revolutionary, who was executed during the mass Stalinist repression. Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, like other people whose relatives were considered to be enemies of the people, had a chance to go through the GULAG. The Museum was created thanks to the Moscow organization of the repressed, giving him the gift of a large number of things prisoners (among them are those which belonged to Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko).
The Courtyard, where is located the State Museum of Gulag history, swathed in barbed wire, and behind her are portraits of Mandelstam, Tukhachevsky, Bukharin, Meyerhold, Vavilov and other famous people are not spared the meat grinder of repression. Under the Windows of the building is knocked together from wooden planks watch tower, designed for surveillance outside the camp. Inside, visitors enter a recreated office of the NKVD. Behind him you can go to the barracks for prisoners and solitary confinement. To add realism of the rooms with wax figures of investigators and prisoners. The atmosphere of these rooms allows you to experience how horrible the existence of people who are objectionable to the Soviet government.
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The Museum of Gulag history is not only the reconstruction of the individual fragments of the camp. It also has an artistic and historical-documentary exhibition halls. Placed in the first extant works of art of people who passed through the Stalinist camps. Here are exhibited works of modern painters and sculptors devoted to the topic of the Gulag. Exhibits of the second hall are the personal letters and memoirs of prisoners, as well as documents relevant to the government system of correctional labour camps.
Every year in the Museum of Gulag history comes about 1 thousand visitors, the majority of which are tourists. The place is open for visitors from Tuesday to Sunday. Day off is Monday. The operation of the Museum next Tuesday to Wednesday and from Friday to Sunday it is open from 11:00 to 19:00. Thursday from 12:00 to 20:00. The ticket office always closes 1 hour earlier than the exhibition halls. On the last Friday of each month, the Museum serves visitors in connection with a sanitary day. For group tours you must pre-register.
In order to get to the Museum, visitors need to purchase tickets. Their cost varies from 50 to 200 rubles. For children under 7 years of age, orphans, orphanages, University students of stationary form of education, disabled groups I and II, war veterans, victims of repression and some other categories of citizens free admission. The third Sunday of each month, the Museum caters for all its guests completely free of charge. Visitors are allowed to use cameras and video cameras.
People who have visited the Museum say that be it psychologically is not easy. Everything in the exhibition halls tells about the hard life the prisoners are not spared the Communist authorities. Documentary material, the fragments of the situation of the barracks and the detention center could not be better convey the atmosphere in which contained people. Paintings and sculptures complement the atmosphere of the Museum, allow you to delve further into the problem of studying the history of the Gulag.
On the Internet today there is a Virtual Museum of the Gulag. It was created by St. Petersburg Scientific-information center "memorial" in cooperation with CJSC “Alt-Soft”. The website contains many photographs of the Stalin era, are in various Museum collections across the country. In his database there is evidence about the life of the Gulag, which can't be seen in the exhibition halls. Includes images of the camp buildings remaining, polyacrylics and long-lost graves of convicts, monuments and memorial boards dedicated to the memory of victims of totalitarianism. The site was founded with the aim of creating in Russia a single national Museum devoted to the Gulag, which contains all currently existing materials about this terrible period of Russian history.
Not in vain in the capital of the Russian Federation opened a Museumthe history of the Gulag. Moscow was the main city of the USSR. It was here that put the fate of millions of people. Not only the Museum preserves the memory of political repression. It is close to the former KGB building, behind the grey walls of which decisions were made about the penalties for displeasing the Soviet government. Here, the Lubyanka, you can come to the Solovetsky stone and honor the memory of those who became victims of the totalitarian machine.
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