• Выставка достижений народного хозяйства (ВДНХ)
Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh)

🔻VDNKh is a must-see in Moscow! It's a huge park with an amazing history, featuring beautiful architecture, museums, attractions. 

🔻The exhibition was established February 17, 1935 as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition and open to public in 1939.

🔻By 1989 the exhibition had 82 pavilions with an exhibition area of 700,000 square metres.

🔻During Soviet times, each year VDNKh hosted more than 300 national and international exhibitions, meetings of scientists and professionals.

🔻What to see:
☆The Museum of Cosmonautics
☆Moskvarium
☆The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh)
☆Fountain Druzhba Narodov
☆Historical Park Russia - My History
☆Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Statue
☆Ostankino Park with Ostankino Tower
☆Fountain Stone Flower
☆Film Museum
☆Astronautics and Aviation Center
☆Arch of the Main Entrance VDNKH
☆Fountain Zolotoi Kolos

Photos by: Aндрей Мошкаров

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In 1903, the Imperial family hosted a masquerade ball that invited 390 guests.

🔻All attendees were to arrive in costumes from the era of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ("pre-Petrine times"). Court ladies were to wear sarafan dresses and kokoshniks, while gentlemen should wear the clothes of boyars (noblemen) and streltsy (archers).

🔻The nobility of the Russian Empire gathered in the Winter Palace to celebrate the 290th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty's reign.

🔻Masquerade participants adorned themselves in national costumes, lavishly embellished with gemstones, pearls, and diamonds.

🔻These outfits were meticulously crafted beforehand, following designs by the artist Sergei Solomko under the guidance of historical consultants.

🔻The luxurious costumes, richly ornamented with rare furs and precious stones, cost their owners a fortune.

🔻 A few of these outfits have survived and are now housed in the Hermitage Museum collections.

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