History of Moscow: The exhibition "Moscow thaw: 1953-1968"

Masterpieces of cinema, literature, music, as well as the phenomenon of urban social life of Moscow era of 1950-1960s, reflected in paintings and sculptures, posters, clothing and furniture - all that visitors will see at an exhibition of the Museum of Moscow "Moscow thaw: 1953-1968" which is opening on December 16, 2016.

The exposition presents paintings and graphic works of Russian classics: Yuri Zlotnikov, Leo Nusberg, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Mikhail Roginsky, Boris Turecky, Mikhail Chernyshov, Alexander Labas, Yuri Pimenov. Guests of the museum will also see architectural designs by Yefim Vulykh, Jacob Belopolsky, Felix Novikov. And yet they will be acquainted with paper architecture projects of the World Expo 1967.

Among the exhibits there are records of famous jazz concerts, as well as film and photographic materials of thaw era.

Part of the exhibition project, devoted to literature, includes the first editions of collections with an original design and autographed by Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Robert Rozhdestvensky Igor Holin, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Heinrich Sapgir. It also presents remastered rehabilitated works of Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, galley (with the author's corrections) of famous 1964 novel "Goodbye, boys!" by Boris Balter.

In the section of Soviet cinema posters are presented Gregory Kozintsev, Mark Donskoy, Mikhail Kalatozov, Marlene Hutsiev and Andrei Tarkovsky. There will also be open a cinema and a documentary chronicle of the time.

From Moscow Museum funds for large-scale exhibition were selected landmark objects that define an era: dresses and hats of late 1950s - early 1960s, Soviet posters on the theme of space exploration, negatives, porcelain, furniture and equipment.