Description of the attraction
The Museum of Myths and Superstitions of the Russian People is located in Uglich, on 9 January Street. This museum was created by Daria Chuzhaya and Alexander Galunov as a creative workshop. To enter here you need to know the password (comic, of course): "We are from friends and acquaintances." This apartment contains all the "evil spirits" known in Russia. In the fall of 2000, Daria and Alexander, native Petersburgers, moved to live in the outback and opened their workshop here in an old two-story wooden house. The first visitors to the unique exposition found themselves on the doorstep of the workshop-museum on Christmas Eve 2001.
This home museum houses characters that are well known to everyone from fairy tales and legends. Here you can see Babu Yaga, a ghoul, a ghoul, and a demon; various creatures from Russian mythology: the Sirin bird, the field bird, the brownie, the kikimora. Daria Chuzhaya made all of them from wax, and in full size. She herself sewed costumes for dolls, stuffed stuffed birds herself. The appearance of all the characters was recreated according to legends, books, manuscripts, traditions brought from ethnographic expeditions. On the basis of all this, sketches were first created, and then the figures of those characters who inspired fear and respect in our ancient ancestors.
The interiors of the rooms, where the images of the characters of the folk epic are placed, repeat completely the ancient peasant dwelling. Here you can see all those attributes, without which it is impossible to imagine an old Russian hut. In the hallway there are agricultural and working tools, chests, like those in which supplies were kept, cribs, rocker arms, baskets, braids, pots, tuesques, caskets. Here you can find ancient kitchen utensils, charms, talismans, bundles of medicinal herbs, elegant embroidered towels, brooms, mirrors, spinning wheels, furniture and other things reminiscent of bygone times.
The stands of the museum acquaint visitors with archaeological finds. This diverse collection of things long gone from everyday life surprises and delights the guests of the museum.
In the library of the museum you can get acquainted with articles on local history, popular science and scientific works and publications.
In this museum, you can take an unusual excursion into the world of folk rituals and holidays, learn a lot of interesting things about the ancient gods, beliefs, shamans and magicians, get acquainted with ancient esoteric practices, listen to the decoding of fairy tales and epics, discover a lot of new things about amulets and talismans, signs and methods of healing from various ailments in time-tested ways, get acquainted with many popular, as well as rare fortune-telling. For the ancient Slavs, these beliefs were part of their life and provided answers to most of the questions of life.
Modern man often interprets mythology as a fairy tale. But nevertheless, even today we sometimes spit over our left shoulder, knock on wood, we are afraid that a black cat will cross our path. This museum, created by the hands of creative people, helps us understand why our ancestors did all this, where did the conspiracies, sayings, sayings, and stories come from, that is, the museum introduces its guests to the history of superstitions that live in popular memory, ancient Russian culture, customs, way of life life of the Slavs.
