Memorable dates of Russia: The exhibition "From the Red Line", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917, in Ulyanovsk

Copies of documents from the State Archives of the Russian Federation, telling about the renaming of Simbirsk to Ulyanovsk, are presented at the exhibition "From the Red Line", which was opened in Ulyanovsk.

The project of the State Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve "Homeland of V. I. Lenin" is included in the program of events "The Simbirsk Fault. People and Fates", as well as in the plan of events of the Ulyanovsk region, connected with the 100th anniversary of the Great Russian Revolution and proposed by the Ulyanovsk branch of the Russian Historical Society. It talks about the life of Simbirsk during revolutionary times.

The name of the exhibition "From the Red Line" is symbolic. The "Red Line" is the first line of the paragraph or the initial line of the text. Indeed, with the beginning of 1917, Russia entered a new period of its history. Creating the exhibition, the authors wanted to draw attention to the anniversary, to give an opportunity to look calmly, impartially at events of a hundred years ago, comprehensively and delicately to comprehend them. Such an objective comprehension will help to learn the lessons of history.

The exhibition reflects the consequences of the revolutionary events of 1917-1922 in Simbirsk, which affected the life and fate of every inhabitant of a provincial city. The documents, slogans, appeals, addresses to citizens, poems, newspapers, letters, photographs are among the exhibits. For the first time, the activities of the committee of members of the Constituent Assembly (Komuch), which established its authority in Simbirsk on July 10/23, 1918, are presented. On the same day, the first issue of the newspaper Vozrozhdenie was published in Simbirsk. 

The exhibition uses slogans, appeals, addresses to townspeople, poems, which were printed in Simbirsk newspapers Izvestia, Proletary, Simbirskaya Pravda, Zarya and Vozrozhdenie. The photos presented in the exhibition vividly demonstrate the struggle against homelessness and the attitude of the Soviets towards children.

Particular attention should be paid to a series of authentic postcards featuring the Emperor Nicholas II and his family members, which were published in Harbin in 1918-1920 by the watchmaker N. I. Klimkin. These rarities were carefully preserved until the last days of life by the zemstvo figure of Simbirsk province, who emigrated to Harbin, Prince A. N. Ukhtomsky, and his descendants passed them along with other family documents to the collections of the museum-reserve.

When creating the exhibition there were used documents, periodicals, exhibits from the funds of the Museum-Reserve "Rodina "V. I. Lenin", the State Archives of the Ulyanovsk region and other meetings.

The exhibition will work in the Scientific and Exhibition Complex "Na Moskovskoy" until December 1, 2017.