The exhibition “Old New Year» The Faberge Museum opened an exhibition of toys times of Tsarist Russia. Here you can learn how dressed up a Christmas tree in the 19th century, from which made New Year’s toys and ornaments which were considered the most beautiful and desirable. Some exhibits collection turned more than a hundred years.
Museum visitors are not welcome here the usual toys made of glass or plastic, but will find hares, birds and Santa Claus figurines, made of paper or metal. For example, in the collection, you can find a unique suspension, made of royal rubles in 1859.
All the toys were manufactured before 1917, when people with great trepidation treated to a holiday and its attributes and decorations ordered from Germany. Those toys are made of cardboard, wood wool. The reason is simple: glass ornaments could afford a really wealthy people, and citizens with modest incomes to buy Christmas toys made of cardboard and did not suffer from this
After so many years, these artifacts made from scrap materials, purchased the same. value as well as their counterparts from the window, they are all stored memories of a bygone era.
can also be at the show to see unique Christmas candy boxes, which hid candy, rings and earrings, and observing the European tradition, hung on the tree as an ornament.
WHERE:
Faberge Museum, Fontanka embankment, 21
WHEN:
December 9 – January 31
daily except Friday from 9:30 to 20:45
HOW MUCH: 300 rubles