Exhibition "Easter Gift" Automatic translate

Kolomenskoye shows in the museum-reserve "Alexandrovskaya Sloboda" a chamber exhibition "Easter Gift". The items presented in the space of the exposition "The World of a Provincial Estate" introduce the traditions of giving Easter gifts to relatives and friends.

Easter is one of the main Orthodox holidays, which in Russia has always been celebrated on a grand scale. One of the main rituals of the Easter holidays - Christening - a special greeting: when they met, acquaintances kissed each other three times, exclaiming "Christ is Risen!" - "Truly Risen!", and exchanged Easter eggs.

The most common gift for Easter was and remains an egg. In the folk tradition, painted natural eggs were called "krashenki", and painted with hot wax and paints - "pisanki". Until modern times, wooden painted eggs were the most expensive option. Over time, the Easter egg, as one of the attributes of the culture of celebrating the Resurrection of Christ, found new incarnations and became a true work of art: wooden chiseled eggs, eggs made of porcelain, glass, precious metals appeared, decorated table or hanging cases were made for painted eggs.

Porcelain Easter eggs appeared in Russia in the 18th century. The exhibition presents a small collection of porcelain Easter eggs from the collection of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, made in the 1860s-1880s at the leading Petersburg factories: the Imperial Porcelain Factory and the factory of the Kornilov brothers. The exhibition is complemented by painted and painted wooden eggs, chiseled egg cases and Russian and European Easter postcards from the early 20th century. The geography of the exhibits is not limited to the Russian Empire, some of the exhibits come from Western European countries, which will allow a broader look at the topic of Easter gifts.