Exhibition “Happy New Year, dear comrades!” opens in the History Museum in Moscow on 21 December.
      
      The main exhibits are various New Year toys of the 1900s-1980s, among them are those made of glass, cotton-wool, papier-mache, cardboard, and handmade toys.
      
      Fur-trees with decorations and toys are located in chronological order: fur-trees of the 1930s, of the Great Patriotic War period, and the 1950s-1960s. There are also special thematic Christmas trees: a space fur-tree, a fairy tale fur-tree, etc.
      
      The first official celebration of Christmas took place on the eve of 1991, when the first Christmas fur-tree was decorated in GUM Department Store in Red Square.
      
      The exhibition runs till February, 27.
      
      Source: shm.ru
Author: Vera Ivanova