International events: The exhibition “Moscow – Vienna. Ways of Cooperation” opened in Austria as part of the Days of Moscow in Vienne

The exhibition of Russian archives, telling of more than five centuries of relations between Moscow and Vienna, opened at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Vienna (Austria) in the ongoing Moscow Days here in Vienna.

The exhibition, entitled "Moscow - Vienna. Ways of Cooperation", features engraving portraits of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, exchanged the first credentials 525 years ago, and a copy of a letter from the Russian envoy in Vienna abroad XVIII and XIX centuries, the famous patron Prince Andrew Razumovsky of Prince Grigory Potemkin a proposal to organize a visit of Mozart to Russia.

A copy of the note of Joseph Stalin to Austrian Chancellor Karl Renner on May 24, 1945, in which the Generalissimo offers Vienna food aid from the Soviet government to increase the rations in the Austrian capital. Next to it there are photos of the 1950s and 60s, showing the political, economic and cultural ties between the USSR and Austria after the signing of the State Treaty of 1955 about the sovereignty and neutrality of the Republic of Austria.

The materials for the exhibition are provided by the State Archives of the Russian Federation (SARF) and the Foreign Policy Archives of the Russian Federation (AVP RF).