Exhibition "Dreams and Tangerines" Automatic translate

On December 24 at the Gilyarovsky Center, a branch of the Museum of Moscow, the New Year’s exhibition "Dreams and Tangerines" will open. Visitors will be able to see carnival masks of the past, Soviet postcards, posters of New Year’s performances and rare wartime photographs, as well as learn how tangerines became one of the symbols of the main family holiday. On the opening day, December 24, admission to the exhibition is free by registration, on other days - by tickets.

They began to celebrate the New Year on the night of December 31 to January 1 in 1700 under Peter I. Each house was then decorated with coniferous branches and trees, and throughout Moscow, festive fire continued for a whole week, frightening ignorant citizens. In the same 18th century, "Chinese apples" - oranges and tangerines - were brought to the country, which eventually became a traditional attribute of winter holidays. Muscovites were especially fond of tangerines: they were hung on coniferous branches along with nuts, sweets and paraffin candles.

After the revolution, the celebration of Christmas was banned: it was celebrated secretly, illegally cutting down trees and decorating them with old toys. In 1935, the tree returned - already like a New Year’s, not a Christmas tree.

In wartime, of course, one could only dream of tangerines, but Muscovites still celebrated the New Year: they arranged Christmas trees in bomb shelters, where amateur groups, theater and pop artists performed. How the New Year celebrations looked like in the city during wartime can be seen in the rare photographs presented in the exhibition from the album “Hermitage Garden”, the winter season of 1944–45. ".

The tangerines also returned to the holiday with Victory. For the first post-war celebrations, 110 wagons with fruits from Transcaucasia arrived in the city. But tangerines became a real symbol of the New Year in the 1960s: then a Soviet delegation visiting this country in northern Africa agreed on the supply of delicacies from Morocco.