Visitor of the exhibition takes photo of costume of Kabardian warrior, Moscow, October 14, 2017. Photo by Gore Aleksanyay for the Caucasian Knot.

14 October 2017, 16:48

Moscow exhibition provokes interest in Kabardian culture

Today, the Moscow State Museum of Oriental Art has opened the exhibition "Kabarda: From Antiquity to Our Days", which presents to visitors cold arms, gold embroidery items, and other artefacts from Kabardino-Balkaria.

The exhibition is dedicated to the 460th anniversary of the conclusion of the military-political union between Russia and Kabarda, and it will be open until October 29. In Moscow, the exhibition acquaints visitors with various aspects of the history and culture of the Kabardian people, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by the press service for the State Museum of Oriental Art.

All the exhibits were brought to the exhibition in Moscow from the National Museum of Kabardino-Balkaria, noted its director Felix Nakov.

According to Yuri Kepa, Assistant Professor from the Russian State University of Tourism and Service, who has visited the exhibition, the event is of great interest.

"We have discovered for ourselves the part of Northern Caucasus which we have never heard of. I want to study every subject at the exhibition. For me personally, the costumes of male warriors are of great interest. I have never seen them from close range, and now I am watching them with interest and I am reading information about the exhibits," Yuri Kepa has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Gor Aleksanyan Source: CK correspondent

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