The Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg was inaugurated on the eve of Victory Day in 2015. This event was dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the Great Victory of the peoples of the Soviet Union in the most terrible and bloody war (1941-1945). The museum has become a unique national-patriotic art site, which has no analogues in the world.
Organizers
German Vladimirov, a native of St. Petersburg, became the director and founder of the museum. His idea resonated in the hearts of friends and associates, volunteer militias and people who are not indifferent to the tragedy of the people of Donbass. Thanks to their efforts, a unique exposition was assembled, which today has more than a thousand exhibits.
Overview of the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg
This unique site occupies a very modest basement. Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg, whose address is st. Decembrists, 57, has an exposition hall, which is divided into several parts. Its most significant section is the memory stele, which contains many things belonging to people who are no longer alive: they died in the Donbass, protecting the peace and freedom of civilians from the Ukrainian security forces - Alexander Bednov, Pavel Dremov, Alexey Mozgovoy, Arsen Pavlov, Evgeniy Ponomarev and many others.
Stele of Glory
This is another sector that is of interest to visitors. Documents and belongings of the militias who participated in bloody battles and survived are presented here. They transferred this to the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg frontal relics.
Museum exhibits
Here are banknotes of New Russia, which, however, were not destined to become the current regional currency. In the museum you can see the outer clothing of a journalist from Great Britain Graham Phillips, in which he was bombarded by the Ukrainian military.
In the corner of the main hall is the original icon, which is very dear to all the inhabitants of the land scorched by war - the Virgin of Donetsk, the work of the icon painter Maria Zharkova. She was forced to move from her hometown of Snezhnoye to the Northern capital. The list of this icon, which was written in 2015, is today in Donetsk.
Trophy departments
They featured a “Hurricane” of Ukrainian security officials, helmets, helmets, personal items of APU fighters, chevrons and shoulder straps of the Dudayev battalion, and even the flag of ISIS. German Vladimirov believes that this is a corner of the so-called European values that can come to every house if the Donbass is broken. True, he is sure that this will never happen, because his defenders are forged from steel.
The Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg has many interesting exhibits. For example, the license plate on which is written "Banderovets", and on its back you can see the autonomy of one of the countries of Europe. He was brought from Donbass, telling an interesting story about its owner. Living in recent years in Europe, a former citizen of Ukraine became the punisher of the battalion "Carpathians".
On a crossover with a memorable Banderovets number, he tried to break into the territory of Donetsk Airport. SOBR militia, having seen the car, fired two volleys, ordering the driver to stop. He did not respond to demands, and the defenders of Donbass had to shoot on wheels, after which a desperate driver opened fire on SOBR men. He was eliminated.
After approaching the car, the commandos discovered a huge amount of ammunition, which the guest from Europe intended to deliver to the airport. The Museum of New Russia (St. Petersburg), a review of which does not take much time, has recently been replenished with a memory stand for soldiers killed in Syria, as well as a wall of victims of the crash of the TU-154 airliner.
Organizer plans
Does the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg have features? Yes, the museum’s founders plan to significantly expand the military exposition, and not only in Novorossia, but also in Abkhazia and Syria, Yugoslavia and South Ossetia, Chechnya, etc. Since the premises currently occupied have a very modest area (70 square meters) in it even relics from New Russia do not fit. For this reason, many of them are stored in utility rooms. Today, there can be no talk of a detailed exposition, which would be dedicated to the feat of heroes who distinguished themselves in other wars.
The people who created the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg dream of uniting veterans of all wars. To fill the exposition and further expand the museum, agreements were reached on preferential rental of premises in the Vasileostrovsky district of the city on the Neva. Despite the fact that the agreement has already been signed, the deadline for its entry into force has not yet been established. This is due to events that we will talk about later.
In any case, no matter how the situation develops, the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg, more precisely, the main part of its exposition, will remain in its former place, as the leaders say. There are several reasons for this decision: the address of the museum is well known to Petersburgers and guests of the beautiful city, the overhaul of this basement cost almost two million rubles, which are personal funds of German Vladimirov, so it is not advisable to leave it now. In addition, the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg has relics that can hardly be moved to another place, for example, a column with autographs and inscriptions of the legendary militias and commanders, many of whom are no longer alive.
Museum closing
Until recently, many wanted to visit the Museum of New Russia in St. Petersburg. People came here as whole families, talked with eyewitnesses of the events in the Donbass. That is why for many it came as a surprise that the Museum of New Russia was closed temporarily on January 28, 2017 in St. Petersburg.
Law enforcement officers seized computer equipment, telephones and electronic media, dismantled the entrance sign, and sealed the door and sealed it. A criminal case was instituted against one of the volunteers.
Reason for closing
The reason for the assault was a fight between a museum volunteer who came out of it late at night and three young people. During the fight, the volunteer shot into the air from a weapon (registered). The fight was provoked by the attackers. When the walkie-talkie worked, one of the attackers, hearing it, began to threaten and threaten the burning of the museum soon.
The skirmish quite quickly grew into a fight. Help arrived in time for both sides of the conflict, but the attackers were in the majority, so museum staff had to retreat to the premises and barricade themselves. The attackers did not calm down and began to knock doors, shouting threats. It is noteworthy that it was they who informed the police that armed people were in the museum.
Arriving law enforcement officials began to demand that the door be opened immediately, but those who remained inside did not have the opportunity to verify that the request came from the police. In order to protect himself, the guard shot at the door. Armed police officers stormed the premises.
Background to what happened
According to the founder of the museum, Vladimirov, on the eve of May Day 2016, the Molotov cocktail was thrown at the museum. And it was not the first time they stormed it: in the early fall of 2016, FSB officers cut out an iron door, without waiting for the director to arrive, they seized a laptop, phones, hard drives, and movie discs. It is noteworthy that as a result no claims were made to the museum’s activities.
And to date, inspectors have not been able to find anything illegal in the museum. Therefore, everything that happened on the night of January 28 is very reminiscent of a planned provocation.
