The display “70th Anniversary of the Great Victory!” was opened in the Cultural Centre of Ferapontovo on May 1. It is a joint project of the employees of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes and residents of the village of Ferapontovo.
Such exhibitions are staged not for the first time. The museum has been actively cooperating with local people for several years. It resulted in such displays as “Faces of the Village”, “Children of the Village”, “Ferapontovo in the 20th-Century Photos” and others. They were based on the materials of the photo archives presented on certain subjects.
2015 is a special year for our country – we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. It doesn’t matter how many decades have passed, we mustn’t forget about the cities and villages reduced to ashes, the homewfront workers who bore the brunt of the war years, about millions of fallen soldiers, the spavined people who went though the war, the destruction of invaluable cultural monuments. Nobody and nothing can minimize the greatness of the people’s feat and the victory over fascism of world-wide importance.
The exhibition presents portraits of the war veterans who went to the front from Ferapontovo and neighbouring villages in 1941. A.V. Andreev, Hero of the Soviet Union, was also among them. The pictures of the rallies held in different years on May 9 get us to the atmosphere of the holiday: these are veterans near the walls of the Ferapontov Monastery; in this picture, they are laying flowers at the monument to the Unknown Soldier unveiled in the outskirts of the village. These photographs give us a chance to get to the Soviet time, to the post-perestroika period, or to the present day when you cannot meet anybody of those people depicted in the pictures. But our conscience and duty to the people who have died and have gone through the war will not allow us to forget about this tragic page of the chronicle of our country.
