Just a few decades ago, email was the most popular means of communication. In handwritten or printed letters, people told each other news, confessed his love, asked about living relatives, and sometimes thanked their idols. Today, these letters from the past are a source of knowledge about the lives of people and the whole country.
Some interesting letters from the collections of Moscow museums, and the history of their writing — in joint material mos.ru and the Agency “Moscow”.
In the 1970s, Vladimir Vysotsky was one of the most famous people of the Soviet Union. In the Taganka Theater, in which he served, I received letters from fans from all over the country. They Vysotsky thanked for songs and poems, shared her impressions of the films and performances with its participation. Someone appealed to the poet and actor respectful — Vladimir Semenovich, and someone who familiarly called him Volodya. Among the hundreds of messages which are now stored in the collections of the State Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky, there is a letter from the representatives of the hippie movement.
“you salute Hippie, hippies idolize you. Hippie is me. Hippy is us. Our God is Vysotsky. But whether he has the attitude of a hippie?” — says the inhabitant of Simferopol Tanya Garbuzova, calling itself the “Chepelenko”. Fan with idol do not stand on ceremony: asks Vladimir Semenovich autograph, and in return offers him her along the way explains to uncle Fede, that “the teeth are inserted, but still lame.” The cheerful tone of the letter underlines the PostScript: “Hey Soviet cosmonauts in flight! Hurrah-Ah-Ah!!”
Unknown, Lee said the poet to the letter and if he read it at all, but after a few years, the issue of hippies was reflected in his work.
In 1975, the Soviet Union released film “Escape of Mr. McKinley”. In it Vladimir Vysotsky played the role of a street singer bill Sigger. Songs, which were performed by his hero, he wrote specifically for the film. One of them was called “the Mystery of the hippies”. Later on, Mr Sobyanin recalled:
Already at the premiere Vysotsky learned that most of his songs (including “Mystery hippie”) on the installation were cut.
This and other letters that Vysotsky has received from fans, you can look in detail at the online exhibition “Mr mayor, colleagues…”, open the site of the Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky.
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the Second half of the 1930s- one of the worst periods in the history of the USSR. Mass repressions have touched the lives of millions. Trying to learn the fate of relatives, wrote to representatives of the investigative bodies of the letters, which were seldom received satisfactory answers.
October 29, 1937, was arrestIAOD Ephraim I. Lipsky, chief metallurgical engineer of the 1st main Directorate of the people’s Commissariat of defense industry of the USSR. He was accused of participating in a counterrevolutionary terrorist organization. The freedom Lipsky is survived by his wife and two daughters, who for some time did not know what happened to him. One of the daughters of Ephraim Lenin, the second grade Lena, decided to write a letter to someone who, in her opinion, could help the Pope and to eliminate injustice, to Joseph Stalin.
“Just recently, mom found out that he was convicted and sent to one of the camps of the NKVD. But we do know that it was a mistake and that’s why we want dobica of peresmotra case,” — wrote the girl (spelling and punctuation preserved). To send a message to the leader of the country, Lena went to the Kremlin and there asked the guard soldiers deliver it to Stalin. She went from one entrance to another, but everywhere was refused. It was not until the evening, until the girl went home, clutching the letter, proved useless.
a few months after his arrest, on February 18, 1938, her father was found guilty and sentenced to the Supreme penalty — death. In 1955, Lipsky was fully rehabilitated.
Descendants of Lena Lipsky many years kept her letter, and in 2018 gave this relic to the Museum of Gulag history.
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Interesting stories sometimes keep not only the big letters, but little notes. One such note today is in the collection of Museum space.
In 1931, was one of the most important Dating in the life of Friedrich Zander, he met Sergei Korolev, who, together with him and other scientists of the group studying jet propulsion (gird), began work on the first Soviet liquid-propellant missile. The theme of space exploration Zander became interested in high school — one of the lessons the teacher read to the class excerpts from an article by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky “Investigation of outer space rocket appliances.” By the way, many years later your children the scientist and his wife gave space names: a daughter named Astra and two sons mercury and mercury Jr.
Friedrich Zander was not only an inventor but also a popularizer of science, in their spare time, he lectures on space exploration. In 1924-1925, he has performed in Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, Leningrad, Saratov, and Kharkov. Each of the lectures was a success — listen to Zander had filled the room. One of these nights the grateful listener handed him a note:
launch the rocket gird-X was working on Zander with his friends, took place on 25 November 1933, but Friedrich Autorovih did not see its flight. Shortly before the field tests, he became ill with typhoid and went for treatment in Kislovodsk. There 28 March 1933, the great scientist died.
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One of the main writers of the Soviet Union, Maxim Gorky is very believed in the power of human thought. He was one of the originators of the all-Union Institute of experimental medicine. Using his authority of the Soviet power, the writer has to convince the country’s leaders of the need for this project. The scientists of the Institute there were many important tasks to improve human life. The most ambitious project was a radical increase in life expectancy — the achievement of immortality.
Gorky was acquainted with many famous scientists of the Soviet Union, with some of them led a long correspondence. In the Epistles he thanked them for their work, they asked about new research and share observations and hypotheses. Frequent addressee of his letters was a zoopsychology, the wife of the founder of the Darwin Museum Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kots.
In one of the emails stored in the collections of the Darwin Museum, Gorky asked Nadezhda Nikolaevna: “the book You lovingly sent me, I read a quote from Ellen Keller. Let me ask You: do You know any deaf and dumb and blind at the Kharkov Institute Professor Ivan Afanasevich Sokolyanskiy, and his work with this deaf, dumb and blind?”
Ellen Keller referred to a Bitter, aged one year and seven months had been ill with scarlet fever, and then completely lost his sight and hearing. However, with the help of special methods and years of efforts of her teacher, Keller was able not only to adapt to society, but also to the degree of bachelor of arts. The writer was interested in this practice of Soviet scientists.
Professor sokolyanskiy, which is also stated in the letter, was one of the leading specialists in the USSR in the field of defectology. He worked with children in Uman, Moscow, Kharkov. More than 20 years after the scientist’s death in 1981, his service to the country was recognized at the highest level — he was awarded the USSR State prize for “the creation of a scientific system of teaching deaf-blind children.”
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In the beginning of 1911, the composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin traveled with concerts in Germany. The tour included several major German cities. House in Moscow, had children and a wife Tatiana, who really missed her husband.
the First city in the journey, became Dresden, where he arrived on 2 February (old style) was then Leipzig and Berlin. In the capital of Germany Skryabin met several times with Michael Gnesinym observed for Alexander Nikolayevich longing for home and family. Mikhail Fabianovich recalled: “He came to Berlin alone, without Tatiana Feodorovna, and somehow needed the attention.” Two and a half weeks of separation Alexander wife wrote several letters after every concert sent a telegram to Moscow.
Tatiana is also often wrote to her husband. In the collections of the Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin kept her letter of 4 Feb. After just a few days after the departure of her husband, she writes: “As I rush you! If I had a little more money, no doctor in the world couldn’t keep me now in Moscow.” In the text she calls Alexander’s “sweet dusík”, “katawazai”, “marvelous light God” and “delicate, magical little flower”.
the Last recital of Scriabin in the framework of the German tour took place in Berlin on 14 February, after which it after a few days returned to Moscow to Tatyana Fedorovna and children. You can imagine how happy was this meeting.
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