The photo exhibition "Music of Victory" will open in the square of the Moscow metro

On April 30, 2025, the Victory Music photo exhibition will be inaugurated in the Moscow Metro Square. The exposition will tell about the composers and musicians who were contemporaries of the events of the Great Patriotic War, as well as present the most popular and popular musical instrument of that time, the accordion. "Music of Victory" will be part of an exhibition project on the streets of Moscow dedicated to the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory.

The exhibition was prepared by the Moscow Department of Culture, the Moscow Directorate of Mass Events in cooperation with the Russian National Museum of Music and the A.N. Scriabin State Memorial Museum.

The Victory Music photo project tells how music helped soldiers to survive difficult everyday life at the front, and those who remained in the rear to work for the good of the Motherland, believe in Victory and wait for their relatives and friends from the front.

The section "Composers of the Great Patriotic War" will introduce the works of fifteen talented composers who worked in the genres of academic and non-academic music, tell you what kind of music they created and what contribution they made to the future Victory. The soldiers took the drill, marching, lyrical and comic songs, which were created from the first days of the war, with them to the front. They were sung in dugouts and trenches in moments of calm, on the march and at short halts, on improvised concert stages. More than fifty museum exhibits – photographs, scores, prints – were collected especially for the exhibition.

Another part of the exhibition "Harmonica at the front" is dedicated to the instrument accordion on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The accordion sang in dugouts and trenches between battles, they danced to it at halts, soldiers marched into battle with it and joyfully welcomed the Victory. These are the stories of eighteen legendary performers – bayanists, accordionists, as well as composers and conductors who performed on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. More than 50 photographs, supplemented with award lists, certificates and other archival materials, cover the period from 1940 to 1945. These include Lidiya Ruslanova's legendary performance with accordion players at the walls of the Reichstag on May 2, 1945, and rare photographs of soldiers in the trenches who did not lose their fighting spirit thanks to music, reportage footage from hospitals and concerts on the front line., where an accordion was also played in between fights.

On the stands of the photo exhibition, you can also see archival footage of Soviet soldiers listening to music in moments of relaxation, photographs of musicians participating in front-line brigades, whose songs lifted spirits on the battlefields. The section will be supplemented with a QR code leading to a collection of compositions accompanied by accordion, accordion and accordion.

QR codes will be placed on the exhibition stands so that visitors can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of wartime, listening to both majestic compositions dedicated to the Great Patriotic War - "Holy War" by Alexander Alexandrov, "Hymn to the Great City" by Reigold Glier, and life–affirming harmony motifs – "Russian Quadrille", "Flick-Flak", "Bullseye" and others.