located in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region near the Bakhchivandzhi platform.
The Museum of Military Uniforms was created on the basis of the collection of the Imperial Quartermaster Museum, which existed before the revolution under the patronage of the Russian Emperor. The Highest Decree ordered the collection of both standard samples of military uniforms, as well as experimental, experimental ones, in order to “preserve samples of military uniforms for history.”
2. During the revolution, the commissariat museum was partially looted and partially destroyed. The remains of the collection of the commissariat museum were transferred: partly to the artillery museum, engineering troops and signal troops; partly to theaters and film studios; partly to the quartermaster department of the Red Army, for use as samples of military uniforms.
3. Regular units, and with them a uniform uniform, appeared under Peter I. The soldiers wore a caftan: green in the infantry, and blue in the cavalry, a single red cloth camisole for all, tricorn hats and a sword belt with a sword. Officers also received a scarf and a distinctive badge on their chest. Peter I gave great importance appearance of his warriors, he took care that they looked dignified and at the same time had equipment convenient for battle. 
4. The exhibits presented in the museum tell how the military uniform appeared and changed in Russia, which was proudly worn by many generations of defenders of the Fatherland. 
5. For a long time, the collection existed at the research laboratory of military uniforms of the quartermaster service of the Ministry of Defense and was shown only to specialists. Now the museum is open to anyone interested in military uniforms. 
6. The vast majority of exhibits are historical originals. 
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8. Loops for orders and medals are visible on this uniform. 
9. The uniform of our army changed quite often, largely due to the fascination of statesmen with European outfits 
10. In the early Soviet times, the exhibition was not doing well. Some exhibits were donated to other museums, others were given to theaters and film studios. A lot of things were simply sold out. And what was left was put in boxes and locked in a warehouse. The museum was revived only after the war, when the surviving rarities were returned to the Main Quartermaster Directorate. But only in 1985 the exhibits were housed in a modern heated building, equipped entirely by the rear services. 
11. In these halls you will learn a lot of interesting things about everyday things and names familiar from childhood. For example, foragers for a long time were the only servicemen of the Russian army who had a visor attached to their headdress. But not out of force and not as a sign of distinction, but for purely practical purposes: it was believed that such a hat was very convenient for measuring oats for horses. 
12. For a soldier, a uniform has always been something more than just clothes. It’s not for nothing that upon dismissal from military service the right to wear military uniforms by former military personnel was specifically stipulated. This was given importance as one of the types of encouragement and recognition of merit. 
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20. The history of the appearance of shoulder straps and epaulettes is interesting. Initially, epaulettes - dense metal plates - served as protection against saber strikes, and shoulder straps were convenient in that they protected the upper part of the uniform from rapid wear when the weapon was positioned “on the shoulder.” In addition, they seemed to hold together the remaining parts of the uniform - a sword belt, a sling, and backpack straps. The insignia on them appeared later. 
21. Stuffed horse of Voroshilov named Mauser. 
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Each cavalry regiment had its own cap color, and there were as many as 128 such regiments. 
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25. Standards for the Victory Parade. First option. 
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27. When on June 27, 1945, the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces awarded Stalin the title of generalissimo, the question arose: what uniform would henceforth suit the commander-in-chief? The development of a uniform for the holder of a unique military rank was entrusted to the Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces, General Khrulev. The chief quartermaster presented the sewn uniform Soviet army Drachev. Seeing the “outfit,” Stalin winced. He didn’t like the numerous braids, luxurious gold epaulettes and gold stripes on his trousers. Having put Drachev out, the leader told his subordinates that he did not want to look like a rooster or a doorman from a restaurant. There was no need to explain it twice: a few days later they presented a more modest uniform - a woolen jacket with a turn-down collar. He received the highest approval. Now both versions of the Generalissimo form can be seen in the only place— Museum of Russian, Soviet and foreign uniforms of the Central Clothing Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 
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The museum is located on the territory of a military unit and is a “sensitive” facility, and therefore it is necessary to apply for a visit in advance.
Due to the “fading” of exhibits from camera flashes, the museum has a certain lighting regime and photography is subject to special orders.
Museum of Military Uniforms- was opened in February 2017 and is structural unit Museum military history Russian military historical society (RVIO).
Building
The estate was formed in the middle of the 18th century near the church in the name of the State of the Honorable Faith of the Apostle Paul, built in the 16th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, the estate belonged to Ivan Petrovich Turgenev, a famous freemason, public figure, member of the Novikov Friendly Scientific Society, director of Moscow University, which was occupied by the Turgenev House and became one of the brilliant literary salons in Moscow. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, Vasily Lvovich Pushkin and others often visited here famous personalities. Ivan Petrovich Turgenev died in 1807 and the Moscow house was sold to the “first-ranking merchant of Dorpat” Christian Fe.
In 1812, the estate burned down and was rebuilt only a few years later. On October 12, 1832, it was bought at auction by a Moscow merchant of the 1st guild, one of the pioneers of the tea business in Russia, Moscow merchant and entrepreneur Pyotr Kononovich Botkin.
Pyotr Kononovich had numerous offspring. Vasily Petrovich Botkin, eldest son, was famous writer and a critic. Nikolai Petrovich Botkin spent almost his entire life traveling. In Rome, he met Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, who was a frequent guest in the Botkins’ house. Dmitry Petrovich Botkin is a co-owner of the tea trading company “Peter Botkin’s Sons” together with his brother Pyotr Petrovich. Dmitry Petrovich, in his youth, became interested in collecting paintings, watercolors, sculptures and until the end of his life he was collecting works of art; by the end of his life he became one of the most famous collectors and connoisseurs of art. Sergei Petrovich Botkin is a famous therapist, the founder of a scientific clinic of internal diseases in Russia, the founder of the doctrine of the body as a single whole, subordinate to the human mind, a public figure. Mikhail Petrovich Botkin - artist, the most prominent collector and philanthropist of his time, owned a unique collection of works applied arts: ancient, Byzantine, Old Russian, Gothic and Renaissance. Pyotr Kononovich Botkin also had five daughters. The eldest of the daughters, Ekaterina Petrovna, married a well-known manufacturer in Moscow, the Old Believer Ivan Vasilyevich Shchukin. Maria Petrovna is married to famous poet Afanasy Fet. The husband of Anna’s youngest daughter was a well-known professor in Moscow, doctor of medicine Pavel Lukich Pikulin.
By the end of the 19th century, the owner of the estate was the daughter of Pyotr Petrovich Botkin, Anna, who settled there with her husband, the merchant Andreev, who took the position of director of the tea trade partnership “Peter Botkin’s Sons”. Another daughter of Pyotr Petrovich, Vera, in 1887 married Nikolai Ivanovich Guchkov, the future Moscow mayor and public figure. N.I. Guchkov headed a tea partnership and the house belonged to him.
The last members of the Guchkov-Botkin family left the estate in 1921.
In 1918, it was nationalized, and communal apartments were installed in the house. At the end of the 1920s, a dormitory for the Communist University for national minorities was built on the site of the former property of the Petroverig Church. The residential buildings of the Turgenev-Botkin estate began to be used as a dormitory. After the war, the buildings of the former estate housed kindergarten, nursery, warehouse of the publishing house "Medicine" and other institutions.
In February 2017, the Museum of Military Uniforms opened in the restored estate.
Exhibitions
"Rescued Relics"
On February 2, 2017, the “Rescued Relics” exhibition was opened at the Museum. The exhibition presents unique exhibits of Russian military uniforms XVIII- XIX centuries from the Museum of the History of Military Uniforms, created on the basis of the collection of the Imperial Quartermaster Museum, which existed before the revolution under the patronage of the Russian Emperor. The “sample store,” established by Peter I, received items of military uniform not only Russian army, but also foreign ones, design drawings and sample forms. In 1868, based on the collected items, the Quartermaster Museum was born and by the highest Decree of Alexander II it was ordered to collect both standard samples of military uniforms and experimental, experimental ones in order to “preserve samples of military uniforms for history.”
After historical events The 1917 collection endured many trials and hardships. The life of the museum ceased: the exhibits were put into boxes and sent for storage to the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1932, part of the collection was transferred to the Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineering Troops and Signal Corps, and part went to costume theaters. Most of the exhibits remained in storage rooms, deteriorated, wandered around huge country. Only since 1959 the collection became available to a limited circle of specialists at the development base of the Central Clothing Directorate, organized by the Clothing Supply Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
Thanks to the full support of Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov, Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation, in 2015, a project was carried out to transfer unique items from the storerooms of the Museum of the Russian Ministry of Defense to the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) for restoration and display within the walls of the Museum of Military Uniforms.
Restoration of the priceless collection began in 2016 by specialists from three leading organizations GosNIIR, VKHNRTS im. I.E. Grabar and ROSIZO with the support and active participation of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). A year after the start of restoration work, after a hundred years of oblivion
The exhibition “Saved Relics” is dedicated to the memory of Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov, who died in a plane crash near Sochi on December 25, 2016.
The exhibition is complemented by unique collection author's miniatures by Alexander Voronov, dedicated to the Russian Imperial Guard of 1906–1917, the period when military service was returned to raise the prestige dress uniform clothes.
On December 12, 2019, the Museum of Military Uniforms was opened in the very center of Moscow. This is a unique project of the Russian Military Historical Society, the main goal of which is to preserve and popularize the best traditions of Russian military service.
The museum is located in the classical ensemble of the Vasilchikovs’ city estate on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, built in late XVIII- beginning of the 19th century. The estate has the status of an object cultural heritage federal significance.
Visitors to the Museum are presented with two permanent exhibitions. The basis of the exhibition “Uniform for a Hero” is samples of military uniforms and equipment from the 16th century to the present. Some of the exhibits are real relics - a collection of priceless items of military uniform, carefully preserved by the Imperial Quartermaster Museum until 1917.
Special place The exhibition includes rare experimental samples of Russian army uniforms, presented to the general public for the first time, things that belonged to Russian emperors, various equipment and weapons different eras, authentic exhibits from the 18th and 19th centuries.
It is worth noting that the exhibition includes such exhibits as a reconstruction of the Uniform Dress of Catherine II in the form of the Cavalry Corps (second half of the 18th century), sewn to the exact measurements of the original ( State Museum-Reserve"Tsarskoye Selo"), authentic items of uniform of soldiers and officers of the most eminent regiments of the Russian Imperial Army: Life Guards Hussars, Cuirassiers of His Majesty, Sapper Battalion, Preobrazhensky, Ulansky, Cavalry Guard, Dragoon Military Order, 145th Infantry Novocherkassk and others. A special place is occupied by the rare and well-preserved uniform of the drummer of the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment of 1809.
The exhibition “The Vasilchikov Estate”, located in one of the rooms in the front suite of the Main House, tells the story old manor, where the Museum is located. The exhibition presents a detailed model of the estate complex of buildings that developed after 1870.
The Museum also has temporary exhibitions “Imperial Cavalry”, dedicated to history forms of clothing, equipment and weapons of the main types of Russian cavalry XIX era- the beginning of the 20th century and “Colors of War” - the military chronicle of Russia through the eyes of painters. At the exhibition you can see paintings by Russian artists from the collections of Russian museums.
Distinctive feature The Museum of Military Uniforms is an extensive complex of modern multimedia technologies (touch panels, wide-format screens, projections, binoscopes and much more), which will provide free and effective access to meaningful and visual information on the history of the Russian military uniform of the 16th-21st centuries and create conditions for studying military history of the country.
Operating mode:
- Tuesday-Sunday - from 10:00 to 19:00 (ticket office until 18:30);
- Monday is a day off.
The Museum of Military Uniforms is one of the newest in Moscow; it was opened in 2017 by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). Through a combination of classic museum work and modern technologies The institution is quickly gaining popularity among Muscovites and guests of the capital. Another attractive feature of the museum was its location: the exhibitions are located in the Turgenev-Botkin estate in the center of Moscow - this Historical building, architectural monument.
The key task of the Museum of Military Uniforms is to visualize history national army, tell about the history of Russia and the Russian armed forces through the prism of front-line and ceremonial military clothing. The creators of the museum managed to achieve maximum visibility and immersion in amazing world Russian army.
The museum houses two permanent exhibitions; temporary exhibitions, scientific and historical conferences, and meetings with writers, historians, and reenactors are regularly held here.
Permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Military Uniforms
Rescued relics
“Rescued Relics” is the first exhibition of the Museum of Military Uniforms. During the exhibition, visitors will get acquainted with examples of uniforms of soldiers, officers and senior army ranks of the 18th-19th centuries.
In 2017, the exhibition “Rescued Relics” was given memorial status: in this way the Museum honored the memory of the head of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense A. N. Gubankov, who died in a plane crash near Sochi in December 2016. It was Gubankov who conceived the exhibition “Rescued Relics” and donated 300 to RVIO exhibits from the funds of the Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: these were collections of ancient uniforms from the former Imperial Quartermaster Museum. It was from this collection that the history of the Museum of Military Uniforms began.
The Quartermaster Museum was established by Peter I; samples of domestic and foreign military clothing, prototypes and sewing patterns were sent to it for storage. In 1917 the museum was closed. Until 1932, the exhibits gathered dust and rotted in boxes in Peter and Paul Fortress. Later, part of the collection was distributed among several museums, and some exhibits ended up in theaters. By 1959, the lion's share of unique military costumes was irretrievably lost.
In 2016, A. Gubankov decided to bring together the collections of the former Quartermaster Museum. Specialists of the Russian Military Historical Society conducted colossal work, searching for exhibits across the country. Then large-scale restoration work was carried out.
In 2017, the newly created Museum of Military Uniforms opened an exhibition of the miraculously saved collection, which found itself in almost complete oblivion for 100 years.
Guests of the Museum will see the military uniforms of Peter the Great's regiments, grenadiers, hussars, soldiers of the Napoleonic army, artillerymen, dragoons, privates, etc.
Rescued relics: two centuries of glory
At the end of 2017, the second part of the “Saved Relics” exhibition, “Two Centuries of Glory,” opened. At this exhibition you can see the military uniform of the Imperial Life Guards, the Life Cuirassier regiment of Tsarevich Alexei, the Pavlovsky, Preobrazhensky and Borodino regiments, the Nizhny Novgorod hussars, the grenadiers Winter Palace etc. In addition, the exhibition features collections of bladed weapons and firearms.
A special place in the collection is occupied by the miraculously preserved non-commissioned officer's uniform of the Tengin Infantry Regiment: this is exactly the military uniform worn by M. Lermontov, it can be seen in the portraits of the poet.
Guests will be interested in the collection of miniatures by the artist A. Voronov and the exhibition of historical costumes from the Mosfilm film studio.
In total, the exhibition “Two Centuries of Glory” presents more than 50 exhibits, clearly demonstrating the evolution of Russian military clothing from the times of Peter the Great to recent years Romanov dynasty.
Turgenev-Botkin Estate
The Museum of Military Uniforms is located in an old mansion - the Turgenev-Botkin estate. From 1803 to 1807 The estate was owned by the director of Moscow University, Ivan Petrovich Turgenev. During this period of time, one of the most famous literary salons in the capital was formed in the mansion. N. Karamzin, V. Zhukovsky, uncle of the great Russian poet A.S. visited Turgenev. Pushkin, V. L. Pushkin. Balls were held here social events, children holidays.
Turgenev died in 1807, and until 1832 the estate passed from hand to hand. Finally, it was bought at auction by a tea merchant, a big fan of fine arts Pyotr Kononovich Botkin. The mansion, already covered in literary fame, increased it to incredible heights. At Botkin's evenings different time there were L. Tolstoy, I. Turgenev, N. Ogarev, M. Shchepkin and many others.
IN Soviet time the house was equipped for communal housing; there were also nurseries and offices of government institutions located here.
In the 2000s, a scientific restoration of the Turgenev-Botkin estate was carried out. The facade was returned to its original appearance and the interiors were partially restored. The Moscow authorities handed over the building to the RVIO, which housed it historical exhibitions Museum of military uniforms.