The historical festival ‘Times & Epochs’ is taking place in Moscow from 10 to 22 of August for the 8th time.
30 locations will be set in various parts of the city, where the Russian and European historical reenactment groups present their epochs, from the Stone Age to the end of the 20th century. The guests of the festival will see theatrical performances, attend lectures, visit historical exhibitions and become medieval university students.
The admission to the festival sites is free, they are open daily from 11 am to 9 pm.
The 20th century life will be presented on Strastnoy Boulevard the way an outstanding Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov saw it and described in his stories and plays. Theatrical performances based on his works will be held on the site, reenactors dressed according to the epoch will recreate the atmosphere of the time.
The Patriotic War of 1812 will be reenacted on Tverskoy Boulevard, with tents of Napoleon’s and Alexander’s the First armies guarded by soldiers and officers in uniforms of the early 19th century. The visitors of the site will have a chance to see a blacksmith’s work in a field forge.
Lectures on the work of the legendary Moscow Criminal Investigations Department (MUR) in 1945-1953 will be held on Strastnoy Boulevard. After the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) numerous gangs flooded the capital, including those organised by teenagers. The guests of the location will learn how the MUR combated crime and what ruses they used.
Kamergersky Lane will host a medieval university, where ‘the students’ will learn the secrets of alchemy and construction of medieval peculiar machines, find out about the discoveries made by Leonardo da Vinci.
A site situated on Profsouznaya street will be devoted to railway stations of the capital, presenting the everyday life of railwaymen: conductors, operators and telegraphists in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.
Guests could spend time like young men from the 1960s in Tverskaya square: relax and chat with each, read poems of the sixties, listen to jazz, dance and organise parties and interactive theatrical performances, visit exhibitions of photography, magazines, posters and placards.
Moreover, the final of the historical projects contest will be held at the festival. The most interesting projects will be presented in Revolution Square, and 9 of them will receive 1 million rubles each to make their dream projects come true. Thus the prize money of the festival is 9 million rubles.
Last year the festival ‘Times & Epochs. The Gathering’ took place in Moscow from 1 to 12 of June, approximately 5 million people visited it. 12 epochs were presented at the festival, from the Iron Age to the beginning of the 20th century. The guests saw a Greek settlement, a Celtic village, Roman and the Imperial Russian Army camps.
Almost ten EXARC members will be present, from the USA, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia.
