Memory of Russia: Exhibition “War and Peace” Tolstoy – Tchaikovsky – Prokofiev” to the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812

The State House-Museum of P. I. Tchaikovsky (Klin, the Moscow region) opened an exhibition "War and Peace" Tolstoy - Tchaikovsky - Prokofiev". This project combines three museums: the State House Museum of Tchaikovsky, which provided for the exhibition of artifacts from their collections - manuscripts, documents, books from the library of Tchaikovsky, his family, photography, the State Pushkin Museum, from the collection of which the exhibition has a collection of prints, published in Paris, Munich and London and performed by European artists and engravers of the first half of the XIX century, witnesses and participants in the events of Napoleon's campaign in Russia, the third member of the project - a museum of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. From its collection there are theatrical costumes, props details of two performances of Prokofiev's opera "War and Peace" in 1959 and 2005, photographs of the play in 2005.

The theme of the exhibition presents works of three Great Russian artists who have created, each with its own art form, the immortal masterpieces depicting the great feat of Russia against Napoleon's invasion and took their place of honor in the global culture of the XIX and XX centuries. This epic novel of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" Festival Overture "1812" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and large-scale opera in 13 canvas paintings of Sergei Prokofiev's "War and Peace" on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Events of 1812 inspired the three Great Russian artists, living in different time periods and epochs, to create works that reflected, above all, the spirit of a great people-winner.