Museum of the Tula cake. Tula: attractions

The city of samovars, gunsmiths, harmonies and gingerbread, the native land of left-handed people - the Russian land of masters. All this is the city of Tula, museums and attractions which are located in its historical center. The city is extremely convenient for travelers: it is three hours drive from the capital and stands on the railway and motor roads of the southern direction of Russia.

How to start learning

By today's standards, Mr. Tula is large enough. Nevertheless, its main attractions can be viewed in just one day. It is better to start acquaintance with the city from the Tula Kremlin. After that, you can stroll through the ancient streets, which have weapons names. And of course, you must definitely see the three most unique attractions: the museum of the Tula gingerbread, samovars and weapons.

For fans of history and literature in the city there are many interesting places. Local history museum Veresaeva and other state museums of Tula, and simply old buildings of the XVIII-XIX centuries - merchant and profitable houses, official buildings and aristocratic estates will attract the attention of visitors.

Tourists will certainly walk along the "wooden" Tula, along the old streets, living out their last days. Despite the fact that many of the houses were not kept very well, among them you can see the real masterpieces of the carving masters.

The Tula Kremlin

It is somewhat different from other similar Russian buildings. The Kremlin is not behind the river, but in front of it. It's hard to say that his architecture is amazing. However, being part of the fortification system of the city, it was one of the most powerful Russian fortresses. In the history of its existence, the Tula Kremlin has not been taken by enemies even once. Even in the years of the rebellion Bolotnikov, only flooded it, managed to drive out the rebels from the city.

The form of the Kremlin is quite simple. It is built in the form of a quadrangle. The foundation with the lower part is lined with white stone, and the top is made of bricks. The length of the walls is a little over one kilometer, and the height is ten meters. The Kremlin stands on a foundation assembled from oak piles. They have a foundation laid eight meters deep. Today, all nine towers of the fortress have been preserved, of which four are round, and the remaining ones are square.

Weapons museum

In 1989, in the building of the former local cathedral, it was decided to place a collection, for which the Tula Arms Factory had been exhibiting for many years. It is interesting that Peter the First ordered this, even issuing a decree on this. Today, thanks to this wise decision, tourists have the opportunity to see the most interesting samples created by weapons masters, from Peter's times to our days.

It is believed that it is in Tula that the most complete collection in our country is on display for everyone. In the museum you can trace the evolution of Russian weapons.

However, here are not only samples of Tula masters. The museum also has firearms, which was created in England, Japan, France, Iran, Turkey, Belgium, Germany and other countries. Particularly admirable are the exhibits from the collection "Tsar's guns".

A huge success among visitors uses a microscope. Everyone can look into it to see the flea that the famous Tula master has fashioned. A ticket to the museum costs 80 rubles for adults, 100 rubles - with permission to take photos.

Assumption Cathedral

It was erected in the center of the Kremlin made of stone. Its foundation dates back to 1628-1629. Initially, the Assumption Cathedral was built as a summer temple. At present, this building is of interest not only from the point of view of architecture, but also its artistic value. Among the paintings here you can see rare paintings on which the Ecumenical Councils are depicted . In 2012, the restoration of the bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral was started. It was decided to completely restore the belfry, which once rose up to seventy meters. And twenty twenty bells adorned it.

Epiphany Cathedral

If in the Assumption Cathedral only in the summer time served, then in this temple they were performed all year round. It was built much later - in 1865 in memory of the soldiers who died in the Patriotic War. In 1892, it was considered unique, because it was carried out water heating, which for Russia in those years was a rarity. But then, in the Soviet years, the Epiphany Cathedral was placed at the disposal of the flying club, and afterwards - to the athletes.

Tula gingerbread

In Tula, this delicacy is extremely popular. Who refuses to drink a cup of tea with honey gingerbread? For many centuries the Tula gingerbread has been pleased with its amazing taste and quality. And more recently, he also acquired his own museum, in which every visitor can admire a variety of "delicious" exhibits. And it all began very long ago ...

How to prepare the Tula cake

No one can say who did it and when it was first made. The first mention of the Tula gingerbread is kept in the museum scribe book of 1685. Until now, special boards have been preserved, according to which contemporaries can judge the variety of carpets. They were cut out of birch or pear. The age of the tree must be at least thirty years old. For the gingerbread board, only the lower part of the trunk was used, which was cut into pieces about five centimeters in thickness and dried for almost twenty years. The edges of the board for the strength of the master were greased with wax or resin. After the tree was ready, the carver-artist began to paint. Such boards, in their essence, were the form on which baked Tula gingerbread.

Description

The first gingerbread in Russia was called "honey bread". They were brought to the ground by Russian Varangians. It happened in the IX century. It was then in Russia that they also learned what yeast pancakes and dried fruit dried fruits are. At that time, the gingerbread was a dough made from rye flour, mixed with berry juice and honey, the last ingredient being almost half the volume.

Later, honey roots were added to the roots and forest grasses. And already in the 12th-13th centuries, when Russian exotic spices were brought to the Russian land from the Middle East and India, the carrot, having received its present name, was almost completely formed into that amazing treat that everyone knows today.

The taste variety depended on the dough, its composition, the way of preparation and baking. Spirits and additives played a significant role, which in olden times were called "dry perfume". Among the most popular were lemon, black pepper, mint, Italian dill, vanilla, orange peel, as well as ginger, cumin, anise, nutmeg and cloves.

By the end of the XVIII century, Tula gingerbread was already known in Perm and Arkhangelsk, in Kursk and Kharkov, in Kaluga, Novgorod, etc. Gradually, they began to establish their own delicious gingerbread production. Tver gingerbread had stores in Paris, Berlin and London.

Creating a museum

The idea of opening the exhibition was born in 1994. And two years later, on October 10, 1996, the Tula Gingerbread Museum (address: Oktyabrskaya Street, 45a) was inaugurated. It is located in the district, quite far from the historical center. Under the museum of Tula gingerbread, a complex of the XIX century was singled out. These were the former outbuildings of the Lyalin brothers, gunsmiths and samovars. In the immediate vicinity, there is also a shop where biscuits are baked, as well as a company store in which tourists can purchase fresh and delicious treats and various souvenirs.

Excursion around the museum

Visitors can see gingerbreads of the most incredible sizes and shapes, ranging from tiny, having a value of a penny, and to a pood. All of them were made in connection with some special case. In the collection of the gingerbread museum there are historical gingerbread, honorary, congratulatory, personal and many others.

Those, who are lucky, can become participants of an interesting event, tea-drinking with carpets, which is organized by the Tula Gingerbread Museum. The prices for the excursion start from 100 rubles for ten minutes, and delicious treats with different flavors will pleasantly surprise the visitors. But the gingerbreads themselves, baked in the next shop, are served with a heat-hot and have an amazing and unique aroma of honey and butter. This procedure is very popular with visitors. Maybe that's why the museum of the Tula gingerbread for an unexpectedly short period has become very popular. It turns out that in order to get into it and pass through the halls accompanied by a guide, it is necessary to record almost a month.

Exhibits

"History of the Russian State" - under this name there is an exposition belonging to the local confectionery factory "Staraya Tula". This enterprise has a centuries-old history and experience of making traditional printed gingerbreads in an ancient grandfather way, namely manually and using only wooden forms.

The most interesting exhibit of the museum and this exposition is a huge carpet in the size of a meter per meter. On it the wish of health, successes and happiness from KF "Old Tula" is written. And literally there is also the smallest carrot, which weighs only fifty grams.

The museum of the Tula gingerbread is one of the youngest in the city of Tula. For almost two decades of work, it has gained popularity not only in Tula, but also in Kaluga, Chekhov and even in Moscow. Here is the history of the truly Russian ancient delicacy, which has come down to us from the depths of centuries. The production of the carrot was going through its ups and downs: there were losses and revival.

Visitors will be told about all the ancient rituals and traditions associated with the unique rug. They can see and compare how it is created in modern conditions and how those samples that were made on old forms look like.

Here are presented as the smallest, the size of a little more than an ordinary fifty kopecks, the gingerbread, and the largest - poody, which is the only one in our entire country.