Memorable dates of Russia: “The Time of Glory and Delight!” Exhibition timed to the 200th anniversary of victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 held in Moscow

February 28 to May 31, 2012 the State Pushkin Museum is holding the exhibition "The Time of Glory and Delight!" timed to the 200th anniversary of victory in Patriotic War of 1812.

On the basis of an extensive museum’s material the authors of the exhibition have proposed an original structure - "War and Peace", including installations of certain events (a bivouac of the Russian army, Moscow at fire in 1812, a secular living, fashion shop, etc.).

On display are weapons, awards, articles of military service life, military uniforms of French and Russian soldiers (painstakingly reconstructed by experts). Pantheon of heroes of the 1812 war is represented by a rare collection of prints from the originals by John Doe from the famous "Military Gallery" in Winter Palace.

The exhibition also features essays and memoirs of contemporaries, urgent responses to the military events in periodicals.

A unique collection of costumes, accessories of fine clothes of the aristocracy, characteristic portraits of the first quarter of the 19th century, brought from France especially for this exhibition, adds a striking accent to the thematic collection of the Pushkin Museum, whose holdings include hundreds of paintings, drawings, decorative arts, furniture, rare editions and valuable documentary sources of the 18th – 19th centuries.

Plasma screens installed in the showroom demonstrate newsreel footage of 1912 (nationwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812) and the battle scenes of modern military and historical reconstructions.