Military history museum of artillery, engineering and communications
The Armed Forces Museum of artillery, engineering and communications engineering ( Russian Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи , Voyenno-istoritscheski musei artillerii, inschenernych woisk i woisk swjasi ) is a military museum in Saint Petersburg and the oldest of its kind in Russia .
history
The museum is housed in the new arsenal, which is located in the crown factory of the Peter and Paul Fortress . The beginning of the institution goes back to the year 1703 when Tsar Peter the Great ordered old cannons to be collected in the armory of Saint Petersburg on Liteiny Prospect and to be kept "forever". This can be called the beginning of the collection. The museum was officially established here in 1756. It remained in the building until 1868. After the new arsenal was made available for these purposes that year, the collection moved there. The current name comes from the year 1965, until then it was only called "Artillery Museum". Several cannons of the artillery caster Andrei Tschochow (1545 to 1629), who was also responsible for the manufacture of the tsar's cannon, are stored here .
Collections
Today more than 850,000 exhibits are on display in 13 halls and on a total area of 17,000 m², including rifles, swords, pioneer equipment, telecommunications equipment, flags, uniforms, armor, pictures and paintings of battles and medals. More than 200 guns, rocket launchers and the like can be seen in the corridors of the museum building. There is also a memorial for the Decembrists who were executed in this place in 1826. Modern missile systems can be found outside. The exhibitions cover the period from the 15th century until today. Since 1918 the museums of 27 regiments of the Russian army have been incorporated here.
Around 215,000 documents, 100,000 military textbooks, 90,000 photo negatives and slide positives are stored in the archives.
The inventory consists of:
- Copies of domestic (Russian and Soviet) production
- Weapons and equipment purchased abroad as part of the armament
- Items brought into the country through aid deliveries ( Lending and Lease Act )
- Gifts from abroad and from collections
- Loot items to a not inconsiderable extent
- possibly purchased items (nothing unusual for a museum of this size)
The Brockhaus-Efron ( Russian Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона ) (Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona) wrote about the museum:
“From a historical point of view, the Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful depots for weapons, equipment and a large number of other artillery objects. The museum's collection is arranged on two floors, one of which shows the history of Russian armaments and artillery from the end of the 14th century to the present day, and the other mainly houses trophies from the wars of the 18th century. Century exhibited. There are also items of history that were brought here by chance, such as the uniforms of Peter I , Peter III. , Katharina II. , Alexander I. , Nikolaus I .; the saddle of Ivan the Terrible , the doublet of Peter the Great; the uniforms and other personal items captured with the baggage of Friedrich II of Prussia ; Suvorov's death mask ; the uniform worn by Mikhail Andreevich Miloradovich when he was assassinated on December 14, 1825; Rasin's chair and stick , etc. "
Web links
- Official website (English and Russian)
- St Petersburg Military Museum
literature
- Birgit Borowski: Baedeker Travel Guide Saint Petersburg, Mair Dumont DE, 2017, Edition 12, ISBN 978-3-8297-9397-1 .
- Erich Haenel: Old weapons, Richard Carl Schmidt & Co, Berlin, 1913 [1]
- E. von Lenz: The weapons collection of Count SD Sheremetew in St. Petersburg, published by Karl E. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1897 [2]
Coordinates: 59 ° 57 ′ 12 ″ N , 30 ° 18 ′ 51 ″ E