Russian regions: The photo exhibition “Images of Moscow in archival photographs. Famous places and protected corners”

February 16, 2016 in the Children's Library № 138 of Moscow is opening the photo exhibition "Images of Moscow in archival photographs. Famous places and protected corners", organized by the Main Archive Department of Moscow jointly with the Moscow City Department of Culture and the Centralized Library System of Southern administrative district of the capital.

The exposition presents archival photographs of Moscow of late XIX - early XX century. Photographs depicted images of the city, everyday life and traditions of the capital. They show the popular and lesser-known, magnificent and protected parts of Moscow, inviting a journey through time and space.

The Grand Kremlin, the Red Square, with rows of cabs, the procession at the walls of the Novodevichy Convent, the Red Gate, which once adorned the city, a white stone wall of China-town, the Chapel of St. Panteleimon at the Nikolsky Gate, the famous Fountain on Lubyanka Square, which supplied water from the Mytishchi water supply system, acquaint with the appearance of "old Moscow".

The author of these images - Peter Petrovich Pavlov, the famous photographer of pre-revolutionary Moscow. His areas of interest, in addition to shooting portraits were part of historic sites and monuments of the capital, as well as major events in the life of the city: the coronation of Nicholas II, the opening of the monument to Alexander II in the Kremlin, folk celebrations, festivals, and more.

The exhibition also features the work of 1940 – 1980 of well-known masters of photography – V. Egorov, M. Redkin, G. Korabelnikov, N. Rakhmanov and others which reflected the image of the new, Soviet period. Even ancient Moscow looks younger in these pictures. The guests are presented chronicle, which depicted the famous Moscow boulevards and squares, halls beauty of the country's main exhibition - Exhibition Center, Moscow's gold-domed cathedrals and monasteries regenerated.

The exhibition runs till March 19, 2016.