The Presidential Library’s virtual tour spotlights the move of the Russian capital from Petrograd to Moscow

Why was it decided to move the capital from Petrograd to Moscow in the spring of 1918, and who initiated that? How such a large-scale relocation was carried out and what was exported first? The visitor to the Presidential Library’s portal will find answers to these and other questions thanks to a virtual tour of the exhibition Journey from Petrograd to Moscow. 1918: marking the 100th anniversary of the Soviet government’s relocation and the move of the capital to Moscow, which was shown in the building on Senate Square in 2018.

Unique archival documents feature the circumstances of the relocation of the heads of the new state, the commissariats and other important administrative and political structures, about the many difficulties that the Soviet government faced with; according to them one can find out what Petrograd felt having lost its capital status. Multimedia maps will help you understand where the central government agencies were located in pre-revolutionary Petrograd and where they were located in Moscow. Newsreel and fragments from documentaries revive the historical event.

The exhibition Journey from Petrograd to Moscow. 1918: marking the 100th anniversary of the Soviet government’s relocation and the move of the capital to Moscow is one of the 12 temporary expositions of the Presidential Library, which moved from real space to digital. Today, the institution’s portal provides a remote visit such exhibitions as Materialized Memory: Defence and Siege of Leningrad in museum expositions. Marking the 75th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege Weapons Designer and Assault Rifle: the Path of the Great Master. Marking the centenary of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Monuments of book culture: from Print to Digital , An artist against the Fuhrer: fascism in the caricatures of Boris Yefimov. Marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, The Saving Sword of the Revolution: Chekist in Life, Cinema and Literature and many others.

Among the interactive projects of the Presidential Library are also tours around the legendary cruiser Aurora, the State Memorial Museum of Defence and Siege of Leningrad, Kobona: The Road of Life Museum, And the Muses were not silent... Museum, as well as Yulian Semyonov House-Museum.

Visitors to the Presidential Library’s portal from anywhere in the world can walk through the historical building of the Synod, which today houses is a modern multifunctional cultural and educational center, visit the Constitution Hall, learn about the new materials of the interactive exposition covering revolutionary events in Petrograd.