#Exhibit of the Month

This is a challenge cup, which used to be awarded to the winners in sports competitions between the teams-members of the Dynamo Voluntary Sports Society, organized by the City Committee responsible for physical culture and sports in Chișinău.

The voluntary sports organizations (DSO: Dobrovol'noe sportivnoe obshhestvo) were created in the mid-30s of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union and over the years had spread in the socialist states. They brought together groups of amateur athletes from district, regional and republican enterprises and educational institutions based on the territorial principle. They were engaged in the education of the young generation in the field of physical culture, sports and tourism in order to solve the problems of the development of mass physical culture. The winners used to be awarded with diplomas, badges, sports medals of various categories and a multitude of sports cups.

The sports cup presented in this exhibition has the shape of a decorative vase and consists of three parts. The upper part, cylindrical in shape, consists of ten openwork components, the decor of which represents vines with bunches of grapes; it is topped with a hemispherical lid. The upper part is missing an element, usually a sculpture, symbolizing the field of athletics corresponding to the competition. The central part is shaped like a lidded bowl with richly ornamented handles. On its surface the inscription is engraved in Russian: City Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. Challenge prize in athletics among the teams of the Dynamo Voluntary Sports Society, Chișinău. 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951. The third part, which is the foot of the cup, has a band decorated in relief with stylized flowers and fruits with niello.

Accession: MNIM, FB-8736
Metal: silver-plated brass
Dimensions: 300 x 230 x 210 mm.

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“The works of Voltaire, the great French figure of the Enlightenment – part of the Koch’s book collection from the Scientific Library of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy named after Nicolae Testemitanu”

May 16th – 31st, 2015

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Scientific Library of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy named after Nicolae Testemitanu in order to familiarize the public with the old and rare books of the Koch's collection.

There were exhibited 63 volumes of the complete works of Voltaire published in 1819-1821, including: "Theatre", "La Henriade", "La Pucelle d'Orléans", "Poèmes", "Épitres, stances et odes", "Contes en vers, satire, et poésies mêlées", "Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations", "Siècle de Louis XIV", "Précis du siècle de Louis XV", "Histoire de l'Empire de Russie", "Annales de l'Empire", "Histoire du parlement de Paris", "Mélanges historiques", "Politique et législation", "Physique", "Philosophie", "Dialoques et entretiens philosophiques", "Dictionnaire philosophique", "Romans", "Faceties", "Mélanges litteraires", "Commentaires sur Corneille", "Correspondance générale", "Correspondance avec l'Impératrice de Russie", "Correspondance avec de roi de Prusse", "Correspondance avec d'Alembert", "À Mademoiselle Quinault, À M. D'argental, Au Président Hénault... Et Autres Personnages Remarquables...", "Vie de Voltaire", "Table analytique des matièrs".

“The works of Voltaire, the great French figure of the Enlightenment – part of the Koch’s book collection from the Scientific Library of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy named after Nicolae Testemitanu”