In 2020 in Veliky Novgorod opened the first free school for children and teenagers. Almost three million rubles for the project was allocated from the presidential grants. New Novgorod school is created not on an empty place, and on the basis of the Primorsky district of Odessa. Private. Collector Valery Rubtsov was fascinated by the filming of home movies back in the eighties. Of course, on a film camera. Of course, the black-and-white film without sound.
the Era passed, but the interest remained, and ten years ago, film enthusiasts began to acquire on the Internet-auctions of old cameras, filmoscope, cameras, tanks for developing film.
the First exhibits were two of my own cameras and mounting table, and first bought the camera – “Tourist”, – said “RG” Valery Rubtsov. – Today the General collection – more than 1,5 thousand exhibits. And it’s not just film equipment. This year, for example, bought an original script – “the Destiny of man”. Printed it, of course, on a typewriter, with the author’s handwritten edits by Sergei Bondarchuk.
a Large financial investment, as it may seem to the layman, is not required. Open any Internet auction. Lots – from 500 rubles. Often cameras, film, photos, sell the heirs, when they find a suitcase or a chest of rarities. For them, they do not represent any value. Although there are quite unique. For example, the camera of the astronauts to shoot in zero gravity. Sometimes, the exhibits give the beach front. So in Veliky Novgorod got the film, and the first copy of the film “Ordinary miracle” from the personal archive of Alexander Abdulov.
First, Valery collection kept in the house. Took out and showed to friends only, but in 2012 made a first attempt: directly in the wall of the Novgorod Kremlin the exhibition. How was filming documentary footage in the early twentieth century, during the war, worked as cameramen at the front. The room in the wall was not heated, and with the onset of autumn exposition off of.
Only in 2017 was able to negotiate the lease of the old mansion in the centre of Veliky Novgorod – the house of the bourgeois Butusovo of the nineteenth century. It took time to repair, the creation of the exhibition and in the spring of 2018, the Museum opened. It does not bring profit.
– in Primorsky district of Odessa is first and foremost a pleasure for the collector, – said Valeriy Rubtsov. – See a live reaction from guests, and tourists. There is a desire to continue to work to replenish the collection, conduct of a new exhibition. I am a happy person and my happiness here.
The young private Museum in the Novgorod region today is called the collection, which is in the suburbs of Veliky Novgorod from Marevskogo area brought Vladimir Lvov. A former blogger and journalist now prepares its first Museum of millstones.
– In the vicinity of his native village, it was common to find millstones and ancient grinding stones. Literally in size from ten centimeters to meter circles – said in Lviv. – I remember my first stone – it was brought to the site to the house father. A millstone weighed sixty pounds, I guess. I was worn out then, placing it in the yard.
the Total weight of a collection of millstones today – more than 10 tons. In the private Museum more than 120 stones from Poddorye, Marevskogo, Demyansky districts of Novgorod region, there is even a millstone of Ostashkovsky district of the Tver region. Circles of Sandstone and granite can be attributed to the time of Rurik or the period of Ivan the terrible. They could be cut anytime. It is known that in the Novgorod land during the period of formation of Russia sowed rye, and therefore, build mills and grind flour.
– Stone millstone is a manual time machine – I am sure the Museum curator Vladimir Lvov. In the Museum you can not only touch the exhibits, but the main thing is to try to mill the grain. To understand how tricky and difficult. The contemporary Museum is a place of experiences with mandatory interactivity.
Now, all millstones are laid out near the house of Vladimir, but the dream of a novice Museum – covered pavilion, a van for transportation of small exhibits in order to organize exhibitions and master-classes.
the Museum may appear not only from the collection, but also from Hobbies and profession. So in the centre of Velikiy Novgorod in 2015 opened “Novgorod printing house”, where the emphasis is on practical skills workshops.
In the beginning was not the idea of the Museum, but in 2013 in the city of Staraya Russa district printing house passed to scrap the old equipment: the Desk of the typesetter, crucible machine, press, told the graphic artist Nikolay Lokot’kiv. – We managed to agree to pick up the equipment, in fact, already Museum. And it took us two years to repair the premises, the preparation of the exhibition. For example, we made a copy of the printing press of Ivan Fedorov.
while creating printed aspiring Museum workers received three regional grant – almost 450 thousand rubles that were allocated to the purchase and creation of equipment. Added their own funds to clear and repair the basement.
– a Private Museum I would not call a commercial project – it is, rather, an opportunity to be creative and to promote knowledge, – said Nikolay Lokot’kiv. – We help the owners of the building. For electricity and rent we don’t pay, otherwise I would not have survived.
not all of the collection and the dreams turn into museums. In the village of kresttsy collector and former railroad just gave the Museum all that was collected ten years. Now the City has no railway station or railway, but once they were. Stage Valday – Moscow was closed in 2011, the trains stopped coming, and the way, the station building the station�� were simply abandoned.
the First was the electric token ring device, which is pulled out of the scrap metal in the station barn, then the lights, stamps, found something, walking around the stage, – says the collector Vyacheslav Amosov. – Presented to local Museum in the end, more than 180 exhibits.
Sam Vyacheslav was once a machinist and worked for crestcom the stretch. Hence the fascination with the history of the railway in the Novgorod region. By the way, he leads tours of the rare tourists from St. Petersburg in the surrounding forests, which are still preserved fragments of the road and railway bridges.
Novgorod Denis Smirnov collects cigarette cases, cigarette holders, pots with engravings and inlay in the trenches of the great Patriotic war soldiers in free time or was making his way was decorated with personal items. And all that was done in the war, the modern collectors called “trench art.”
His collection of Novgorod Denis Smirnov began to collect in the nineties. In 2015 in Velikiy Novgorod in the city House of culture, he held the first open exhibition “the Soul of a soldier”. To the seventieth anniversary of the victory of the collector then decided to show the townspeople the best exhibits and to tell me that during the war soldiers found time and space for creativity. Showed fantasy masters painted.
the Most common subjects are, of course, cigarette cases and cigarette holders, and generally all that could fit in a soldier Sidor – satchel – told “RG” Denis Smirnov. – All made by hand, well, completed and improved.
Part of his collection Denis found himself on the ground fighting during search expeditions in different years, and some were bought at antique auctions. For example, today a homemade ring 1944 can be bought for 800 rubles, cigarette cases are on average three to ten thousand rubles. But one-off exhibition “the Soul of a soldier” is not turned into a permanent exhibition or a private Museum. While this is only a dream collector.
