State Museum of Political History of Russia
The museum’s central exhibition, Man and State Power in Russia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, presents a comprehensive interpretation of Russian political history from the time of Catherine II to the present day. The 12 sections of the exhibit reflect the key events in the country’s history: political regime changes and wars, revolutions and reforms, and periods of government liberalization as well as periods of strengthening dictatorship. Exhibits and works of art, eyewitness accounts, and ‘voices from history’ show how the actions of those who held the reins of power, as well as those of the most ordinary people, influenced the course of history.
The new permanent exhibit The Empire on the Way to Modernization is devoted to the most important political, economic, and social changes that took place in the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how these changes influenced people’s lives. The unique items and multimedia tools describe the internal and external factors that pushed the authorities to reform. The heroes of the exhibit include reformers and retrogrades, as well as revolutionaries and defenders of traditional values. Each had their own ideas about the ways in which the country should develop.
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