Our Museum launches a new project titled In the Sky of Tsarskoe Selo: Aeronautics at the Imperial Residence.
The project at the Martial Chamber will offer over thirty events including one exhibition, six talks, nine movie shows and nine workshops.
From July to August, Fridays and Saturdays, the Martial Chamber will offer movies and talks about the early days of aeronautics, as well as special guided tours of our WWI Museum and workshops for adults and children. Aeronautics was popular in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, and even Tsar Nicholas II was involved in its development.
The exhibition On Air Flying will tell about Russia's early twentieth century aeronautics and run at the Martial Chamber from 6 July through October.
The project will culminate in the launch of an airship over the Martial Chamber and in a historical reenactment by the Preobrazhensky Regiment Society. The events will be dedicated to the Russian military airship Hawk's world flight altitude record of 1800m set over Tsarskoe Selo on 20 August 1912 and its participation in the Krasnoe Selo field maneuvers in July 1913.
Events for children and parents:
- Above the Clouds, a large programme for designing models of airplanes, airships, rockets and hot-air balloons;
- a balloon model workshop for children and parents;
- Around Russia in 80 days, a series of workshops on making postcards in traditional techniques from different regions of Russia;
- Your Own Plane, a costume-making workshop and a costumed procession.
PLEASE NOTE:
- All the events, except the exhibition and WWI museum tours, have free admission.
- Registration on Timepad is required.
Upcoming Events of the Project:
- Thursday 6 July, Martial Chamber
1st day of Exhibition On Air Flying. Visiting information - Friday 7 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Talk by Elena Timoshenkova, Head of Tsiolkovsky House in Kaluga
8pm: The Airship Destroyer, a 1909 British silent science fiction film directed by Walter R. Booth
The Balloonatic, a 1923 American silent short comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline - Saturday 8 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
2pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 5-7 (with adults only; Timepad registration required)
4pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 8-12 (Timepad registration required)
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum
4pm: Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des ailes), a 2019 French-Norwegian film directed by Nicolas Vanier - Friday 14 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Talk on Film Stories about Aeronauts by film critic Natalia Efendieva
The Red Tent (La tenda rossa), a 1969 Soviet-Italian film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - Saturday 15 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
2pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 5-7 (with adults only; Timepad registration required)
4pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 8-12 (Timepad registration required)
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum
4pm: Soviet and Russian animated films about aeronautics - Friday 21 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Talk by film critic Evgeny Margolit
8pm: The Wings of a Serf, a 1926 Soviet film directed by Yury Tarich - Saturday 22 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
2pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 5-7 (with adults only; Timepad registration required)
4pm: Feet Off the Ground workshop for children of 8-12 (Timepad registration required)
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum - Friday 28 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Silent films with live music
The Airship Destroyer, a 1909 British silent science fiction film directed by Walter R. Booth
The Balloonatic, a 1923 American silent short comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline - Saturday 29 July, Martial Chamber inner yard
2pm: Around Russia in 80 days traditional postcards workshop for children of 5-7 (with adults only; Timepad registration required)
4pm: Around Russia in 80 days traditional postcards workshop for children of 8-12 (Timepad registration required)
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum
6pm: Talk by aeronautics and aviation historian Alexei Belokrys + Tough Nut, a 1967 Soviet comedy war film directed by Theodor Vulfovich - Friday 4 August, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Talk by Tsarskoe Selo research fellow Sergey Man'kov
8pm: Newsreels of the early 20th century - Saturday 5 August, Martial Chamber inner yard
2pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum
2pm: Your Own Plane, a costume-making workshop for children of 8-12 (registration required)
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum
5pm: Nonstop, a workshop for children of 5-12 (registration not required)
5pm: Airship & Balloons Launch, a historical reenactment (weather permitting; registration not required) - Friday 11 August, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Pre-film talk by & with film critic Vasily Stepanov (free registration)
8pm: Screening of On Air Flying in Russia, a 1989 short film by Alexei Balabanov (free registration) - Saturday 12 August, Martial Chamber inner yard
4pm: Special Guided Tour of WWI Museum (tickets online)
- Friday 18 August, Martial Chamber inner yard
7pm: Screening of a film on the history of aeronautics with a pre-film talk by Alexei Guzanov, Pavlovsk Head Curator (free registration)
The project is organised by our Museum together with the Tsarskoe Selo Charitable Foundation and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and supported by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.
You can follow the project on Telegram
