Exhibition "Horse Riding" Automatic translate

On May 22, the exhibition “Horse Riding” opens at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art.

The game of chess is one of the amazing inventions of human civilization. The history of chess is shrouded in a veil of secrecy. Currently, most scientists believe that the game appeared in India as a result of a long evolutionary path. Its original form - chaturanga - was a game for four. On the board were placed figures representing the four branches of the armies of the ancient Indian army - war chariots, elephants, cavalry and foot soldiers. Bones were thrown to determine the course.

Chessmen. S. A. Kushov, 1920s G. Vyatka. Wood, carving, turning, tinting

Around the 5th century AD e. chaturanga is transformed into a game for two: the rules and philosophical meaning of the battle on the board are changing, the outcome of which began to depend on the player’s mind, will and intuition. From the VI century begins a fairly rapid spread of chess in countries and continents. In the Islamic world, the use of images of people and animals was prohibited, and chess pieces acquire a new, abstract look.

At different times, in different countries, chess became an element of national culture. The subjects of figurative figures are infinitely diverse: mythology and ancient legends, images that tell about the life and life of various peoples, this is also a peculiar chronicle of historical events. Often participants in a chess battle become representatives of the animal world or fantastic creatures.

Chess appeared in Russia in the 9th – 10th centuries, as evidenced by epic legends and numerous archaeological finds. The real chess cult, created at the court of Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584), continued during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich (1645–1677). Chess for the Tsar’s court was made by skilled craftsmen of the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin. At the beginning of the XVIII century. Peter did much to spread the chess game. Catherine II also loved the game. According to her instructions, tables with chess were set up in Tsarskoye Selo and Pokrovsky Palace near Moscow. In the XIX century. A new stage in the history of chess in Russia begins. Clubs are organized, tournaments are held, the activities of the outstanding Russian chess players A. Petrov (1794–1867) and M. Chigorin (1850–1908) contribute to the emergence of the world-famous Russian chess school.

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art and the Museum of the Central House of Chess Player named after M. M. Botvinnik present at the exhibition chess of Russia, the countries of Europe and Asia, Latin America and Africa, made of a wide variety of materials.

The exhibition presents a number of unique works that have received recognition at international exhibitions. Among them, for example, Chess "Peoples of the Caucasus" from the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, chess of the 1920s Vyatka carver S. A. Kushov, the characters of which are workers, Red Army men and the "bourgeois" opposing them, an excellent porcelain set "Red and white ”, created according to the models of the sculptor N. Ya. Danko.

Chess pieces of the Uelen master Vukvol, depicting touching and majestic animals of the Far North, sets of stone and wood of Tuvan masters, T. Ammosov chess, made based on the national Yakut epic Olonkho, appear as masterpieces of original folk art.

Chess is not only a unique game, but also an unusually interesting area of ​​plastic art, which provides unlimited opportunities for creativity.

Visitors will have the opportunity to play chess on specially set tables in the exhibition space. And also watch the film “Chess fever”, filmed by directors Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky in 1925, in which the then world chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca played himself. The Knight Riding project not only shows the history of chess in a historical, cultural, artistic context, it is also an interactive project, an exhibition-game, which involves the active participation and involvement of the audience on a journey through the world of chess.