The Yasnaya Polyana Gallery is hosting the exhibition New Year on Old Streets. The display features photographs taken from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, capturing the city of Tula and its residents.
“New Year is almost always an expectation of a miracle, magical transformations, and amazing changes. The holiday gives hope, but at the same time it is associated with nostalgic feelings. We recall not only the departing year, but many previous ones as well. Adults remember their childhood and how their parents celebrated New Year. The photographs presented at the exhibition fully correspond to this mood,” says Maria Arshakyan, Head of the Exhibition Department of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate.
The photographs in the exhibition New Year on Old Streets show how Tula changed over several decades—a city whose history is inseparably linked with the name of Leo Tolstoy. The Yasnaya Polyana Gallery presents landscapes, genre scenes, and everyday photographs. Old transport, developing neighborhoods, shops, crowded streets: the images show how New Year was celebrated in Soviet-era Tula, and introduce visitors to the leisure activities and daily life of the city’s residents in the second half of the 20th century, as well as views of the armor capital of those years.
All the photographs in the exhibition come from the collection of Mikhail Tentser—a native of Tula, publisher, local historian, author of the project Tula of the Past Century, and collector of historical Tula postcards and photographs. The images were taken by four photographers: professional photojournalists Vladimir Beltov, Nikolai Melnikov, and Andrey Lyzhenkov, as well as amateur photographer Vladimir Polyubin.
The exhibition also features numerous publications dedicated to the history of Tula.
“New Year is almost always an expectation of a miracle, magical transformations, and amazing changes. The holiday gives hope, but at the same time it is associated with nostalgic feelings. We recall not only the departing year, but many previous ones as well. Adults remember their childhood and how their parents celebrated New Year. The photographs presented at the exhibition fully correspond to this mood,” says Maria Arshakyan, Head of the Exhibition Department of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate.
The photographs in the exhibition New Year on Old Streets show how Tula changed over several decades—a city whose history is inseparably linked with the name of Leo Tolstoy. The Yasnaya Polyana Gallery presents landscapes, genre scenes, and everyday photographs. Old transport, developing neighborhoods, shops, crowded streets: the images show how New Year was celebrated in Soviet-era Tula, and introduce visitors to the leisure activities and daily life of the city’s residents in the second half of the 20th century, as well as views of the armor capital of those years.
All the photographs in the exhibition come from the collection of Mikhail Tentser—a native of Tula, publisher, local historian, author of the project Tula of the Past Century, and collector of historical Tula postcards and photographs. The images were taken by four photographers: professional photojournalists Vladimir Beltov, Nikolai Melnikov, and Andrey Lyzhenkov, as well as amateur photographer Vladimir Polyubin.
The exhibition also features numerous publications dedicated to the history of Tula.