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The museum was created in 1918 on the initiative of the local cooperative organization "Credit Union". During this period, a beginning was made to assemble a valuable collection of shoes and materials on the history of shoe production. In 1926, the first reorganization took place, the museum received a new name “Cooperative Handicraft-Industrial and Agricultural Museum of the Kimry Selpromsoyuz”. In 1939, he received at his disposal a building on the street. Uritskogo, 8, where it is located to this day.
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Exhibition of graphics by Anastasia Bashkova10.10.19 EXHIBITION OF GRAPHICS BY ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH IVANOV 07/19/19 An exhibition of graphics by Alexander Nikolaevich Ivanov (Kharkov, creative pseudonym Alexander Ivanov-Nikolsky), full member of the Academy of Russian Literature and Fine Arts named after. G.R. Derzhavin, member of the International Art Foundation. In the 70s, Alexander Nikolaevich studied graphics and pointillism with the Hungarian graphic artist Sándor Legrady and the cartoonist István Orosz. Took painting lessons from artists: Ivan ... Read more “EXHIBITION OF GRAPHICS BY ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH IVANOV” EXHIBITION “WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST”06/19/19Drawings by People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Zhukov. The exhibition runs from May 8. The Great Patriotic War found the artist in the ranks of the Red Army. At the end of 1941 N.N. Zhukov worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Pravda on the Kalinin Front. The main thing for the artist was the ability to convey directly and truthfully combat episodes, front-line everyday life, and soldier’s life. Man in war has become the main thing... Read more “EXHIBITION “WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST”” EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ARTISTS OF THE ART STUDIO “PEACE AND BEAUTY” 04/30/19 EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ARTISTS OF THE ART STUDIO “PEACE AND BEAUTY” I LOVE YOU LIFE The age of participants is from 10 to 90 years. The exhibition runs from April 21. This exhibition of works (easel painting, oil) is unique for a number of reasons. The authors of the paintings are aged 10-80 years. Young artists, some as early as 8 years old, began to paint in oils (Anastasia Melnikova, Ekaterina Kruglova, ... Read more “EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ARTISTS OF THE “PEACE AND BEAUTY” ART STUDIO” EXHIBITION “GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL TVERSKY AND HIS TIME” 02/18/19 From February 8 to March 31, the Kimry Museum of Local Lore is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the feat of Mikhail Yaroslavich Tverskoy. The name of Mikhail Tverskoy symbolizes the heyday and historical glory of the Tver Principality. The holy noble prince Michael is considered the heavenly intercessor and patron of the Tver land. Under him, the Tver Principality at the end of the 13th century became the political and cultural center of North-Eastern Rus': here it was revived... Read more “EXHIBITION “GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL OF TVERSKY AND HIS TIME””
Kimry
The Dutch say: “He who sits within four walls experiences the most difficult part of his journey.” Life in search of joyful experiences is much easier than you think. Here, one of my last joyful events is a trip to the Kimry fairy tale. So, let's open the door...
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The fair meets the traveler at the entrance to the exhibition!
Kimry Local Lore Museum. The largest museum of shoes of the 18th - 20th centuries in Russia, the real “shoe kingdom” welcomes us with a fun fair in patchwork style!
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And this is Kimry! Do you recognize?
Do you know what birds are found in the witchcraft forests of the Tver region? They can be found here. And different animals...
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Guess who it is...
This strange place, where the history and life of the Kimry district is revealed in all its colors, is located in the very center of the city of Kimry, on the very banks of the Mother Volga.
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The Kimry Museum of Local Lore demonstrates the life of the Tver region and the glorious city of Kimry, its inhabitants since the time of Tsar Gorokh. The exhibition halls are decorated skillfully and lively, and the staff here are friendly and helpful.
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Forest animals of the Tver region
In the hall dedicated to archeology and the ancient world, I unexpectedly learned that mammoths lived in these places after the onset of the glacier 10 thousand years ago. Like these ones!
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And these colossi once walked along the snow-covered steppes of the Kimry region
Kimry local historian A. Sukhanov, who made a colossal contribution to the process of studying the history of this region, believed that in ancient years in Rostov-Suzdal Rus' the place of Kimry was already called a town, as it was mentioned in the historical chronicles of 1096.
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The archaeological exhibitions are impressive!
Although the important documents that have reached us indicate the settlement of Kimry from the middle of the 16th century, I understand that the territory of the current city and its surroundings were inhabited much earlier. And this is evidenced by the skeletons of small people found in the vicinity of Bely Gorod. This is exactly what the human beings who survived on Earth after the onset of the glaciers were like.
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The mounds of the village of Pleshkovo, Kimry district, speak of the antiquity of these places...
The archaeological halls of the museum display the remains of ancient people excavated in mound groups near the village of Pleshkovo, Kimry district.
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Skeletons found in graves near ancient settlements
Shoe production has developed on a remarkable scale in Kimry. Although people were previously engaged in many trades on these banks of the Volga, the need of fishermen, barge haulers, and barge builders to protect their feet from dampness did its job.
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It was with these boots that the life of the “shoe kingdom-state” began for the Volga residents
By the middle of the 17th century, the shoe craft was gaining momentum, thanks to the needs of not only local Volga residents, but also the capital’s residents of the harsh northern climate. Oddly enough, it was in Moscow that good shoemakers were hard to find during the day, but in Kimry there was an abundance of them. And the Kimryaks played on this. They made the capital's nobility their first buyers. Kimry craftsmen began to gain strength in the newly created craft artels of the capital city, and Kitay-Gorod was not ignored. This is confirmed by Moscow letters from 1666-1676: “At the Nikitsky Gate, near the widow of the priest Matryona, the peasants of the palace village of Kimry lived: Boriska Ivanov, Ganka Emelyanov... and from Kimry, the townsman Stepka Fedorov.”
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The glorious village of Kimry
In another document we read: “Yes, under the church in a tent, the peasants of the Kashinsky district of the courtyard volost of Kimry live, Ivanko Frolov, ... Styopka Vasiliev has been making boots for ten years.”
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The work of the Kimryak shoemakers brought glory and prosperity to these places
By the end of the 19th century, more and more peasants were leaving their native villages and mastering the difficult but noble business of shoemaking. By that time, more than half of the inhabitants of Kimry were engaged in the production of shoes. In terms of the number of jobs employed and the cost of goods, shoemaking has become a leader among handicraft industries in the Tver province.
The leather industry initially took on a very crumbly, pointy appearance. Large factories did not appear immediately. Only the plant near the village of Abramovo could boast a huge steam boiler and employees of as many as 133 people.
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THEM. Abalyaev reflected the real life of shoemakers in his tiny sculptures
In the fourth hall of the museum, I marveled at the original reproduction of the development of Kimry at the beginning of the 20th century.
The shoemaking art of a unique village is revealed here in the unique works of sculptor I.M. Abalyaeva. His works reflect the life of that era and add a picturesque flavor to the museum’s exhibition. THEM. Abalyaev was born in 1901 in the village of Nutroma (now the territory of the Kimry district of the Tver region) in the family of an ordinary shoemaker. From an early age he was familiar with the painfully hard life of a shoemaker, simple life, joys and sorrows. And the sculptor reflected all this in tiny wooden figures so convincingly!
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The interiors of the residents of Kimry are impressive
The museum presents interiors from different eras and representatives of different segments of the population, mainly from the 2nd half of the 19th century. And they say that the people lived here richly and joyfully.
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Color and craftsmanship of the Kimri kingdom
Shoes, dishes, clothes and photographs from the early twentieth century give us an idea of the life of the Kimryaks.
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Antique banknotes in exchange for the best Russian shoes of past centuries
Here you can even see very impressive banknotes, for which you could buy high-quality Kimry shoes, which were already famous throughout Russia at that time.
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This is a living shoemaker, frozen in the memory of his descendants
The exhibition also includes actually recreated paintings of shoemakers at work!
Well, the memorial hall of the outstanding Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev, who was born in the Kimry district, is beyond praise... But it’s better to see it with your own eyes.
Come, friends, to the wonderful local history museum of the city of Kimry, open new pages of Russian history with me!
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