The two-year-old great-great-grandson of the national hero of the Civil War, Evgeny Chapaev, came to Cheboksary with his parents for the 50th anniversary of the VI Chapaev Museum, the press service of the authorities of the Chuvash Republic reports. on May 11.
On May 9, the VI Chapaev Museum turned 50 years old. It opened on May 9, 1974 and immediately became a major tourist destination on the map of Cheboksary and the entire Soviet Union.
On the eve of the anniversary, employees of the Chuvash National Museum, representatives of the museum community of the republic and veterans of the Chapaevites gathered to celebrate the anniversary of their beloved museum. The honored guests of the holiday were the Minister of Culture of Chuvashia Svetlana Kalikova and the great-great-grandson of the national hero Alexander Chapaev and his family.
Despite the change in society’s attitude to the events of the early 20th century over time, Vasily Chapaev for Russians is a true folk hero, whose interest does not diminish, and his museum in Cheboksary is one of the most visited . Last year more than 25 thousand people visited here.
Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev – participant in the First World War and the Civil War, head of a division of the Red Army. One of the most famous historical figures from the time of the Russian Civil War. He immortalized in the book “Chapaev” by Dmitry Furmanov and in the eponymous film by the Vasiliev brothers, as well as in numerous jokes.
He was born in the village of Budaika, Cheboksary district (now within the city of Cheboksary) into a peasant family.
With the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the army and received training at non-commissioned officer school. He recipient of three St. George Crosses and the St. George Medal, Sergeant Major.
In the summer of 1917 he joined the Bolshevik Party and at the Congress of Soldiers’ Deputies in Kazan he was appointed commander of its reserve regiment. After the October Revolution, he became an organizer of Red Guard detachments in the Nikolaevsky district, regiment, brigade and division commander of the Red Army. He fought with the Ural Cossacks and Czech legionnaires who opposed Soviet power.
He distinguished himself during the capture of Ufa. Knight of the Order of the Red Banner. He died on September 5, 1919 as a result of a raid by the Ural Cossacks on the headquarters of the 25th division in the city of Lbischensk.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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