World museums: The exhibition “The War That Ended Peace” opened

From July 3 to October 19 in the Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow) will be held the exhibition “The War That Ended Peace”.

To the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War the Museum "Moscow House of Photography" has prepared a large-scale international project for the first time joined forces of leading museums, public and private archives, including: the Imperial War Museum (London), the Military History Museum (Vienna), the Polish Museum of Army (Warsaw), the Museum of Nicephore Niepce (Chalon-sur-Saone), the Royal Museum of Army and Military History (Brussels), the Archive of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva/Moscow), the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents (Moscow), the Archive Agency of communication and audiovisual production of the Ministry of Defense of France (Paris), the Archives of Renault (France) and others, presents a project of reconstructing events consistently 1914-1918, shows the war through the eyes of all the warring parties, all parties of the conflict.

The title of the exhibition – “The War That Ended Peace”, uses the title of the book - "The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 2014", of a famous historian, professor of the Oxford University – Margaret MacMillan, great-grandfather of David Lloyd George, prime-minister of Great Britain from 1916 to 1922. 

The exposition tells about the events as they unfolded during the First World War, stopping at every detail and creating a complete historical picture. It starts with a photo from the collection of the Vienna Museum of Military History, which indicates a formal pretext for war, which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophia Gogenberg on June 28, 1914, and ends with the conclusion of the Brest peace, the League of Nations and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles contract.

An important emphasis of the exhibition space will be 13 screens installed in the halls: six of them will show unique newsreels showing the most important events of each year of the war, and seven - videos combined themes: "Marching soldiers from around the world," "Artillery" "Trenches", "Attack", "Air", "Water", "Death".

The First World War was the opening of a new era of propaganda among their own populations, allies and enemies. On the pages of the French magazine "Le Miroir" were released almost daily photo reports from the front, it was echoed similar Russian editions. The exhibition includes unique newspapers and magazines issued in 1914-1915: "Sparks", "Annals of War", "The Sun of Russia". In addition, the exhibition presents cartoons, color and black-and-white lithographs, posters, made ​​by prominent figures of Russian avant-garde: Kazimir Malevich, Aristarchus Lentulov, and Vladimir Mayakovski.