History and culture: The exhibition "Fate of a bygone era. From the family album of General Mikhail Batyanov" in St. Petersburg

The exhibition "The fate of a bygone era. From the family album of General Mikhail Batyanov" is opened on January 12, 2017 at the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition is dedicated to the fate of the battle General M. I. Batyanov (1835-1916) and his family. Mikhail Ivanovich participated in four wars: the Crimean War (1853-1855), the Caucasian war (1817-1864), the Russian-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). For Military Merit he was awarded many orders and medals.

The basis of the exhibition is the collection of photographs of General Batyanov and members of his family. In 2015 they were donated to the Artillery Museum by his granddaughter A. Basalaeva (Kulzhinskaya), along with several family heirlooms.

Thanks to the collection it appeared a unique opportunity to remind the biography of a direct participant in the events of Russian military history in the second half of the XIX century and trace the fate of his descendants after the revolution before the beginning of the XXI century.   

The exhibition presents documents and photos that allow you talking about the service and privacy of Mikhail Batyanov. Here you can see portraits of the general, his wife and children. Many of them are accompanied by detailed annotations.

The exhibition is supplemented by materials from the collection of the Museum of Artillery, formerly belonged to the pre-revolutionary troop museums, as well as books from the curriculum vitae of combat general, previously known, but undeservedly forgotten after the revolution.

The exhibition will run till the end of March 2017.