PJSC Severstal supported the joint exhibition "Folk Costume of Northern Provinces" of the State Historical Museum with the Cherepovets Museum Association.
The collection of Russian folk costumes kept in the collection of the State Historical Museum is one of the largest in our country. At the exhibition in Cherepovets, costume complexes and individual items of clothing of the national costume that were used in the northern provinces of Russia, which make up the "heart of the Russian North", are exhibited. The subject range is interesting monuments of the 18th - early 20th centuries: 34 items from the collection of the State Historical Museum (sundresses, shirts, aprons, hats, belts, jewelry), as well as exhibits from the funds of the Cherepovets Museum Association. The exhibition brings together about 100 items. /p>
In the folk costume, every detail had a semantic and symbolic meaning: it was possible to understand where a person came from, what social status he belongs to, what his marital status is. The exhibition is structured in such a way as to show how women's clothes changed as the girl grew older: from white, devoid of decor, children's shirts and sundresses, a bright dress of a girl "for marriage", a richly decorated festive costume of a "young woman" to a pre-dark dress of an elderly woman.
Using the example of folk costume samples, viewers will trace not only age differentiation, but also the ritual function of clothing. So a women's wedding dress, consisting of a shirt, a sundress, ribbons, a necklace, will illustrate a Russian wedding as a complex ritual action in which the bride's girlhood farewell and her dressing took an important place. No less interesting will be the mowing shirts, which were made specifically for haymaking and decorated in a special way.
In general, the exhibition shows folk clothes as one of the monuments of Russian culture, which reflected the features of national originality, centuries-old traditions and skill of needlewomen. p>
“I would like to congratulate everyone on the opening of this exhibition in the Vologda land - the homeland of these costumes and hats. We have been fruitfully cooperating with the State Historical Museum for many years, and I am grateful to its leadership and personal general director Alexei Konstantinovich Levykin for such a gift to the citizens of Cherepov and all of us. Unfortunately, now in museums and art galleries, there are few primordially Russian costumes: we often see a changed cultural tradition. I am glad that the visitors of the exhibition have the opportunity to see these rare exhibits and to be glad about what our ancestors did, "commented Alexey Georgievich Egorov, Deputy General Director for Communications and Government Relations at Severstal /
Residents and guests of the city of Cherepovets will be able to visit the exhibition until January 24, 2021.
