Spring festival "Easter gift". Spring Festival “Easter Gift” Project “Bell Ringing”

In honor of Easter, from April 12 to April 23, 2017, Moscow will traditionally host a grandiose spring holiday - the Easter Gift festival. The program of events includes: open-air exhibitions, numerous fairs, concerts, literary readings, master classes, excursions and other events!

In 2017, the holiday will be celebrated at the following venues: pl. Revolution, st. Rozhdestvenka, st. Nikolskaya, st. Kuznetsky Most, Kamergersky Lane, Stoleshnikov Lane, Pushkinskaya Square, Novopushkinsky Square, Tverskoy Boulevard, Old and Novy Arbat and Klimentovsky Lane.

In addition, a number of cultural and entertainment events will be held in the capital's churches.

Charitable events "City of Kindness"

During the days of the festival on the territory of Pushkinskaya Square, visitors will find a large-scale charitable project called "The City of Kindness". This location will host numerous theatrical performances and music concerts performed by well-known metropolitan groups, including artists with disabilities.

To inspire guests to change their lives for the better, therapeutic sports and dance therapy classes will be held at the same venue.

Project "Bell Ringing"

As part of the festival, citizens and tourists will be able to see with their own eyes how professional casters create real church bells! Especially for this on Pushkinskaya Square. the Bell Factory location will be equipped, which is an open foundry.

In addition, on the territory of Pushkinskaya Square, Tverskoy Boulevard. and Novopushkinsky Square, visitors will be shown copies of world-famous Moscow bells, made in the form of bright art objects.

On Pushkinskaya sq. visitors are in for another surprise - a mobile belfry will be installed here, where real bell ringers will demonstrate their level of skill. They will also offer everyone who wants to take part in master classes in ringing.

Music concerts

As part of the music program, the capital's audience is waiting for folk, classics, as well as retro compositions in modern processing. Concerts will take place at the following venues:

• Stoleshnikov per. (April 12-23);
• Pushkinskaya sq. (April 16-23);
• Tverskaya sq. and st. New Arbat (April 16, 22 and 23).

Exhibition projects

During all the days of the Easter Gift festival, several exhibitions organized in cooperation with educational centers will operate at the venues in the capital.

Exhibition projects will tell visitors about the famous patrons of the capital and the lost bell towers, show rare antique Easter postcards and photographs, introduce old recipes for cooking Easter dishes, and much more. others

Festive open-air exhibitions will be held at Manezhnaya, Tverskaya and Pushkinskaya squares, pl. Revolution, in Kamergersky per., on the street. Nikolskaya and on the Arbat, in Novopushkinsky Square and Tverskoy Boulevard.

Moscow Easter Festival
April 16 to May 9
at several sites in Moscow

The festival will traditionally be presented by four major programs: symphonic, chamber, choral and bell. During the three weeks of the Festival, concerts by the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, as well as world-famous soloists and musical groups, will be held at central venues in Moscow and in more than 20 regions of Russia. The festival is dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky.

Easter Egg Program
April 16
3 Ribambelle restaurants

It will be possible to celebrate Easter in Moscow restaurants. Ribambelle club chain will host a thematic animation program "In Search of Easter Eggs". 30 chocolate eggs will be hidden in each restaurant: children will find every last one by completing tasks and guessing riddles.

Children's Easter Choir Festival "Singing Rus"
April 18, 21 and 28, May 5 and 9
Museum-Reserve "Kolomenskoye"

Orthodox choral music, works by composers of the 18th-20th centuries, contemporary authors, Russian ritual songs are performed at the concerts. Festival concerts are traditionally held in the Theater Choromina of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Palace. Moscow choirs and vocal ensembles will perform for the guests of the festival.

Easter holiday in the estate of Captain Tarakanov
15, 16, from 19 to 23 April
estate Tarakanovo

At the zemstvo school of the estate, children will be offered to listen to a fairy tale on an Easter theme, take part in an interactive lesson - make an Easter basket and play a traditional Easter game, a Russian pastime loved by great-grandparents - rolling eggs from an Easter hill.

Easter Traditions Program
from 11 to 16, from 18 to 23 April
Moscow Estate of Father Frost

Guests of the estate are waiting for thematic excursion programs "Russian Traditions - Easter", master classes in coloring Easter eggs, as well as tea with fragrant buns. Children will get acquainted with the history of the Easter card, play Easter games, learn about the main traditional symbols of the Day of Great Joy: willow, egg, "Easter" and Easter candle.

Program "Easter at the Court of Russian Emperors"
April 23
Armouries

The program is dedicated to the traditions of the celebration of the Holy Resurrection of Christ at the imperial court. Children will learn how Easter Sunday was celebrated in the family of Alexander III and Nicholas II, what they gave to each other, how Easter was celebrated during visits to Moscow and the Crimea. The lecture is continued with a lesson at the Armory exposition, where visitors will get acquainted with the history of the creation of imperial Easter gifts.

Museum program "Find the Easter Egg!"
from 5 to 16 April
estate Kuskovo

Children and adults will look for multi-colored eggs in the manor park, and at the end of the search they will be able to exchange the found "trophy" for a special blank - a form for the master class, in order to create crafts using the "decoupage" technique.

Easter at Anderson
15 and 16 April
8 Anderson restaurants

Over the weekend, six Andersons will host an Easter photo session with rabbits, where guests will be able to take pictures in the company of fluffy rabbits. On Sunday, Anderson at VDNKh will host the Egg Run celebration, and Anderson in Korolev will host the Finding the Easter Bunny holiday with egg races and competitions for the strongest egg. In addition, throughout the week, various AnderSon cafes will host culinary master classes dedicated to preparing an Easter dinner.

Easter brunch at Turandot Restaurant
15 and 16 April
restaurant "Turandot"

A children's animation program awaits children - everyone will be able to color Easter eggs and take them home as a keepsake.

Easter quest in Neskuchny Garden
April 15
Boring Garden

The Walking with History project invites everyone to an Easter quest in the Neskuchny Garden. Participants will get acquainted with the history of the holiday, the inhabitants and architecture of the Neskuchny Garden. They are waiting for trials, practical jokes, puzzles, riddles, a battle in the favorite game of the French kings and the search for one of the symbols of the holiday - the Easter Bunny.

Easter in 2017 falls on April 16th. From April 16 to May 9, 2017, the XVI Moscow Easter Festival will be held, which will be dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of Igor Stravinsky. The sixteenth Moscow Easter Festival will be held with the support of the Moscow Government, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and with the Blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

As part of the Moscow Easter Festival 2017, about one and a half hundred events will take place in Moscow, Istra, Ramenskoye and even St. Petersburg.

Over the years of its holding, the Moscow Easter Festival has turned from a musical holiday into one of the cultural symbols of national significance. A spiritual symbol - as a dedication to the Bright Resurrection, a patriotic one - as a tribute to the Great Victory, and, finally, for many Russians - it is a symbol of spring, hope, renewal.

The largest music forum in Russia annually gathers tens of thousands of listeners. Open to the widest range of guests, the Festival includes in its programs both classical masterpieces and rare-sounding works performed by the best masters of our time. At the same time, the Easter Forum maintains an affordable pricing policy and a huge number of charity concerts.

Created in 2002 on the initiative of the Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the Easter Festival immediately won the love of the public and critics. The resonance caused by the First Festival, held with the support of the Moscow Government and with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, determined its future fate: it was decided to hold the action annually. In 2003, with the support of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Festival became all-Russian.

From the first days of the existence of the Moscow Easter Festival, its social priorities were determined - charity, education and enlightenment - which are implemented in all four major festival blocks: symphony, chamber, choral programs and bell week.

Tickets for the opening (April 16) and closing (May 9) of the festival, as well as for the concert on May 7, can be bought on the website on this page.

In addition, the Easter Gift 2017 festival will be held in Moscow from 12 to 23 April. Detailed information - on ALLfest at the link.

Program of the XVI Moscow Easter Festival

Symphony program. The grand opening of the XVI Moscow Easter Festival will take place on Easter Day, April 16, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev and Denis Matsuev will perform works by I.F. Stravinsky, P.I. Tchaikovsky, S.V. Rachmaninov and M.I. Glinka. During the three weeks of the Festival, the musicians of the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev will perform in more than 20 regions of Russia: in Moscow, Kazan, Almetyevsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Orenburg, Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Omsk, Perm , Ulyanovsk, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Tula, Kursk, Rostov-on-Don, Vladikavkaz, Stavropol and Voronezh. Traditionally, a special charter train of the Moscow Easter Festival will “help” the musicians to carry out such a large-scale geographical scope and a program rich in the number of concerts.

Vladivostok will also be a city-participant of the symphony program, where on May 2 and 4, a South Korean virtuoso pianist, winner of the gold medal of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, will perform on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. F. Chopin Son Jin Cho. On May 2, he will play a solo concert, and on May 4, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater under the baton of the winner of the Grand Prix, the Audience Award and the Orchestra Prize at the Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors Darrell Ang (Singapore), he will perform works by M. Ravel, L. Beethoven and G. Berlioz.

Symphony program participants include the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, the Stradivarius Ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre, pianists Denis Matsuev, Daniil Trifonov and Sung Jin Cho, violinists Christophe Barati, Pavel Milyukov and Lorenz Nasturica-Gershovichi, conductor Darrell Ang and a lot others.

Choral program. It will open on April 17 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where the Choir of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Andrey Petrenko, the Choir of the Academy of Choral Art. V.S. Popov under the direction of Alexei Petrov, State Academic Moscow Regional Choir. HELL. Kozhevnikov under the direction of Nikolai Azarov and the State Academic Russian Choir. A.V. Sveshnikov under the leadership of Evgeny Volkov. Concerts of the choral program will be held in Moscow, Istra, Tver, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Balashikha, Kaluga, Klimovsk, Yegorievsk, Sergiev Posad, Elektrostal, Mytishchi, Staritsa, Khimki, Murom, Korolev, Veliky Novgorod, Serpukhov, Alexandrov, Zelenogradsk, Dmitrov, Rostov the Great, Kolomna, Zaraysk and Tula. For the first time, the choral program will be widely presented in Vladivostok: the Consolidated Choir of the Primorsky Metropolis under the direction of Lyudmila Makarenko will perform on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater (April 18), the same group will then perform at the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos (April 25), and in the Temple in honor of Port -The Arthurian Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be performed by the Choir of the Temple of the Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God, conducted by Elena Kokhanovskaya (April 26).

This year the choral program is attended by groups from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Vladimir, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, as well as from Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Sweden.

Participants of the choral program: choir of the Mariinsky Theatre, choir of the Academy of Choral Art. V.S.Popova, State Academic Moscow Regional Choir. HELL. Kozhevnikov, State Academic Russian Choir. A.V. Sveshnikov, choir of boys and youths of the choral school named after. A.V. Sveshnikova, male choir "Russian format" (Voronezh), National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Russia. N.P. Osipova, Ensemble of soloists "Russian Rhapsody", Patriarchal choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, female vocal ensemble "Il Canto" (Novosibirsk), choir "Overcoming", Concert Choir of St. ), Choir of the Temple of the Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God (Vladivostok), Vladimir Chapel of Boys and Young Men, Jazz Choir of the State Children's Philharmonic Society (Yekaterinburg), Children's Choir "Harmony" (Preveza, Greece), Byzantine Choir "Moses Petrovich" (Belgrade, Serbia), Byzantine Choir of Chania (Crete, Greece), Chamber Choir "Salutaris" (Minsk, Republic of Belarus), Septet "Hover" (Yerevan, Armenia), Youth Choir "Mdzlevari" (Tbilisi, Georgia), Children's Choir " Rolnichka (Prague, Czech Republic), chamber choir "Seven Saints" (Sofia, Bulgaria), chamber ensemble "Sofia Soloists" (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Vocal Ensemble "St. Jacobs" (Stockholm, Sweden).

For the eighth time, as part of the Moscow Easter Festival, in the Theater and Concert Hall "The Theater Mansion of the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich" of the Kolomenskoye estate, the Children's Easter Choir Festival of Orthodox Music "Singing Rus" will be held, in which young choirs - students of children's music schools take part .

chamber program. Will open on April 16 in the homeland of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov in Tikhvin. Then it will continue in Gatchina, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Togliatti, Plyos, Yaroslavl, Yakutsk, Murmansk, Aldan, Neryungri, Suzdal, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, and also for the first time will be held in the Crimea - in Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol. Soloists of the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theater and artistic director of the Academy Larisa Gergieva will present a program of Russian romances and world opera masterpieces, as well as a series of open rehearsals and master classes. The chamber program will also feature the Symphony Orchestra of the Togliatti Philharmonic under the direction of the young conductor Timur Zangiev, the Symphonica ARTica Symphony Orchestra and the State Concert Orchestra of the Yakutia Philharmonic. G.M. Krivoshapko under the direction of Natalia Bazaleva and the Chamber Ensemble "Sofia Soloists" under the direction of Plamen Dzhurov.

Calling program. Bell concerts will traditionally be held at the most famous belfries of Moscow - Zaryadye, Zamoskvorechye, Taganka, including Red Square and Danilov Monastery, and in park areas - Kolomenskoye, Sokolniki. The belfries of Zvenigorod, Sergiev Posad, Istra, St. Petersburg, Uglich, Noginsk, Veliky Novgorod and Ramenskoye will also join the Moscow program.

From April 12 to 23, the Easter Gift festival will be held in Moscow. Concerts, performances, exhibitions, lectures, master classes and many other exciting activities await visitors at 24 venues in the center of the capital, as well as in 19 city parks.

Venues of the Easter Gift Festival:

1. Revolution Square (transition to Manezhnaya Square)
2. Revolution square
3. Revolution Square (square near the monument to Karl Marx)
4. Rozhdestvenka street, possession 6
5. Nikolskaya street
6. Kuznetsky Most Street, property 7 (square in front of the Central Department Store)
7. Street Kuznetsky Most, possessions 6-3
8. Kamergersky Lane (near the Pedkniga store)
9. Kamergersky lane, property 2
10. Tverskaya Square
11. Stoleshnikov lane, houses 6-8
12. Stoleshnikov lane, houses 10-14
13. Pushkin Square
14. Novopushkinsky Square
15. Tverskoy Boulevard, possession 19 (near the monument to Sergei Yesenin)
16. Tverskoy Boulevard, property 2 (near the monument to Kliment Timiryazev)
17. Tverskoy boulevard
18. Arbat street, possession 6/2
19. Arbat street, possession 19
20. Novy Arbat street, 13
21. Novy Arbat street, 15
22. Novy Arbat street, 19
23. Novy Arbat street, 21
24. Klimentovsky lane, property 8

Charity project "City of Kindness"

During the Easter Gift festival, Pushkinskaya Square will host a series of charitable events under the general name City of Kindness.

From April 16 to April 23, the guests of this venue will enjoy daily concerts and theatrical performances from Moscow creative teams. A variety of artists will participate in them, including people with disabilities.

To inspire everyone who wants to change their lives for the better, open dance therapy classes will also be held here. On April 22 and 23, the inclusive therapeutic sports ground Dream Skiing. Rollers". All children will be able to work out - including children with disabilities.

Easter project "Bells"

At the Easter Gift festival, everyone will have a unique opportunity to watch how master casters create real bells. An open foundry, the Bell Factory, will operate on Pushkinskaya Square.

At the festival venues on Pushkinskaya Square, in Novopushkinsky Square and on Tverskoy Boulevard, visitors will be able to see the world-famous Moscow bells in the form of art objects.

A mobile belfry will be installed at the Easter Gift site on Pushkinskaya Square, and guests will be able to listen to demonstration performances by bell ringers and learn the basics of bell ringing at master classes.

Concerts

This spring's repertoire includes classical, folk and retro compositions in modern arrangements. Concerts will be held every day, from 12 to 23 April - in Stoleshnikov Lane and from 16 to 23 April - on Pushkin Square. And on weekends - on Tverskaya Square and Novy Arbat Street.

Stoleshnikov Lane

On the site in Stoleshnikov Lane, you can listen to modern arrangements of classical works by Russian and foreign composers, as well as musicians of the Moscow Philharmonic.

Daily:

• 11:00-15:00 pianist performance: classical compositions;
• 15:00-19:00 - live music: duet performance with cover versions of classical works;
• 19:00-20:00 — concert of musicians of the Moscow Philharmonic.

Tverskaya Square

On Tverskaya Square on weekends and holidays, Russian folk performed by fashionable and incendiary folk groups will sound from the stage.

Concerts will be held:

• April 16 and 22 - from 17:00 to 21:00;
• April 23 - from 18:00 to 19:00.

New Arbat

On Novy Arbat, concerts will be held on weekends. Here, festival guests can expect performances by trendy club bands performing retro compositions in modern processing, as well as everyone's favorite songs about Moscow and spring.

Concerts will be held:

• April 16, 22 and 23 from 19:00 to 21:00.

On Pushkinskaya Square from 16 to 23 April, Moscow choirs and pop groups will perform for guests every day. And with the help of a special concert program "Era in Music" listeners will get acquainted with the musical traditions of the XVII-XIX centuries.

Exhibitions

Eight exhibitions created in cooperation with Moscow museums and educational centers will run every day at the Easter Gift festival. The history of Moscow patrons, theatrical Moscow, lost bell towers, antique Easter postcards, old recipes for Easter dishes, and even student gradebooks from the distant past.

1. Exhibition "Moscow Historical Quarters"

Venue: transition from Manezhnaya Square to Revolution Square.

Copies of old photographs, posters and other historical documents placed at this exhibition will clearly tell about the traditions of celebrating Easter, as well as about the history of Moscow patrons and their generous deeds for the benefit of our city.

2. Exhibition "Moscow - the center of intellectual culture of the XVIII-XIX centuries"

Venue: Revolution Square, square near the monument to Karl Marx.

By visiting this exhibition, festival guests will learn about the formation and development of Russian education and science and study the history of such educational institutions as the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, Moscow State University, Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities. Among the exhibits, for example, are copies of a page from Karion's primer (the first illustrated Russian alphabet) and a student card from a student of the Higher Women's Courses (the oldest higher educational institution for women in Moscow).

3. Exhibition "Theatrical History of Moscow"

Venue: Kamergersky pereulok, 5/6 (near the Pedagogical Book store).

This exposition is dedicated to the history of the development of theatrical art in Moscow. The authors paid special attention to the stages of the creation and development of the Maly Theatre. At the exhibition stands, visitors will find historical documents telling about the first Moscow enterprises, theatrical street extravaganzas, outstanding performances created by the best playwrights, directors and theater artists.

4. Exhibition "Moscow - the center of crafts and trade"

Venue: Nikolskaya street.

The exhibition is devoted to the history of the formation of Moscow as a center of crafts and trade. You will learn about what settlements made up Moscow, where the largest shopping malls and crowded markets were located, why people came to Moscow and not to St. Petersburg for the best goods, how the first trading networks were created at the end of the 19th century.

5. Exhibition “Moscow traditions of celebrating Easter. The history of Easter gifts»

Venue: Arbat street, 19.

All about how Muscovites celebrated Easter in the distant past. The exposition will tell about the gastronomic traditions of this holiday, as well as about Moscow spring balls and about the most famous historical and literary drawing rooms, which gathered the most brilliant audience.

6. Exhibition "Easter Sunday"

In the Living Room pavilion on Tverskaya Square, a corner of a pre-revolutionary Moscow apartment will be reconstructed with genuine antique furniture, costumes and household items. Costumed characters meeting visitors will tell about the traditions of the holiday and how Easter was celebrated in Moscow of the century before last.

7. Exhibition "Exhibition of Antique Easter Postcards"

Venue: Tverskaya Square.

In the Living Room pavilion you can admire antique postcards. The collection includes unique postcards with photographs of members of the royal family, views of Moscow, Easter cards created according to the sketches of great Russian artists, mercy cards, circulations of which were issued in favor of one or another charitable society or project. Exhibition materials are provided by the All-Russian Society of Philokartists.

8. Exhibition "The Lost Bell Towers of Moscow"

Venue: Pushkinskaya Square, Novopushkinsky Square, Tverskoy Boulevard.

In archival photographs, visitors will see the bell towers of the Bogoyavlensky, Spaso-Andronikov, Simonov, Chudov, Zlatoust monasteries, the bell towers of temples and churches of St. Sergius of Radonezh, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, Basil of Caesarea, Dmitry of Thessalonica and Nicholas the Appeared.

The first street festival of this spring, the Easter Gift, will be held in the capital from 12 to 23 April 2017. A rich program will await visitors at 24 venues in the center of the capital and 19 city parks.

Music and theater

The Easter Music Festival will be held in the capital from 16 to 23 April. On the days of Easter and on Krasnaya Gorka, festive programs will unfold at the sites of temples. Creative workshops for adults and children, performances and musical performances await guests. The festival will open at 12:00 on Strastnoy Boulevard. Competitions, master classes and excursions will be held here, folklore groups will perform, and Easter bells will ring. The festive program will be presented by the Vysoko-Petrovsky stauropegial monastery. At the opening of the festival, there will also be a competition for painting two-meter Easter eggs. 20 teams will take part in it. These will be students of Moscow art studios, colleges, cadet schools, pupils of institutions of additional education, as well as houses of culture and cultural centers. An exhibition of painted eggs will decorate the courtyard of the Moscow City Duma.

Also, 11 temples will become participants of the festival:

• Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Church of the Holy Martyrs Michael and Fyodor of Chernigov;
• Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo;
• Church of St. John the Theologian under the Elm;
• Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains;
• Church of St. Martin the Confessor in Alekseevskaya Novaya Sloboda;
• Church of the Resurrection of the Word on the Assumption Vrazhek;
• Novospassky stauropegial monastery;
• a temple in the name of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO;
• Church of the Prophet Elijah in Cherkizovo;
• Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Animal Spring" in Tsaritsyn;
• Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Ostankino.

On April 16, daily concerts and theatrical performances will start on Pushkinskaya Square, in which people with disabilities will take part. For everyone, dance therapy classes will be held, and on April 22 and 23, an inclusive therapeutic sports ground “Dream skiing. Rollers".

The musical repertoire of the festival promises to be very diverse. At the venue in Stoleshnikov Lane, musicians from the Moscow Conservatory will perform piano compositions and cover versions of classical pieces. And on Tverskaya Square on weekends and holidays, you can listen to Russian folk. Meanwhile, on Novy Arbat, long-familiar and beloved melodies will be played in an original modern arrangement.

Bell workshop

On Easter Sunday and the next six days, collectively referred to as Bright Week, it will be possible to personally observe how real Moscow bells are made. As part of the open workshop “The Bell Factory” on Pushkinskaya Square, three foundry craftsmen from the Danilov Monastery will demonstrate to the townspeople all the stages of making a bell. In addition, mock-ups of the famous Moscow bells that adorn the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin will be installed in Novopushkinsky Square and Tverskoy Boulevard. The history of the big bell of the Danilovsky Monastery and the alarm bell from the Armory will also come to life here.

The program of the Easter Gift festival includes eight exhibitions, five of which will be designed as facades of historical buildings. Looking into the open "windows" of these unusual structures, one can see what the capital was like in the 17th - early 20th centuries.

The Moscow Historical Quarters exposition will open between Manezhnaya Square and Revolution Square. This exhibition, organized with the support of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, will show copies of old photographs, posters and other historical documents dedicated to the activities of patrons and the Easter traditions of Moscow.

The exhibition on Revolution Square will tell about the capital as a center of intellectual culture of past centuries, and in Kamergersky Lane there will be an exhibition-maze "Theatrical Moscow", in which the Museum of the Maly Theater took part. Acquaintance with the exhibits in the exhibition stands will allow you to learn a lot of interesting facts about the first Moscow enterprises, theatrical street extravaganzas and city holidays.

To complete the picture, on Nikolskaya Street, everyone will be offered to get acquainted with the daily life of the capital's merchants and artisans. In addition, the cozy world of a pre-revolutionary Moscow apartment will be recreated in the Living Room pavilion on Tverskaya Square. Surrounded by authentic antique furniture, costumes and household items, you can admire the insertion of old Easter cards.

This is the first time that street exhibitions will receive such an original design. In total, more than 180 models will be used, made according to the sketches of the facades of buildings of the specified historical period. For them, they chose houses built in the classic and Russian-Byzantine styles, as well as in the Art Nouveau style.

The Metropol Hotel, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow University on Mokhovaya Street, GUM and the Historical Museum have been moved from the famous buildings of the city to mock-ups.

Sports activities for Easter

As part of the Easter Gift festival, outdoor sports events will be held.

Table tennis, basketball, kicker, rock climbing - everyone will find something to their liking on numerous sites. Traditionally, the largest number of sports zones will be located on Tverskoy Boulevard. For example, five ping-pong tables with rackets and balls will be installed near the “Armenia” restaurant.

And near the monument to Timiryazev, you can jump on trampolines, play basketball and kicker (table football). You can also go skateboarding there. By the way, this year the festival skatepark will appear in an updated form. It will consist of two ramps - for children's training and for free skating. All the necessary equipment will be given out on the spot, and the classes will be conducted by experienced instructors. In addition, demonstration performances and competitions will be held in the skatepark.

On Novy Arbat, festival guests will have the opportunity to ride a skateboard, roller skates and BMX. For this, a special ramp will appear here. And young visitors will be able to climb to the very peaks and train their agility at the climbing wall, which was loved by Muscovites and guests of the capital at last year's festivals.

On Revolution Square, master classes “Fencing Lessons” will be organized and an interactive lesson “Tales of the Heroes” will be held, prepared by the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The program includes a sword master class and fascinating historical lectures.