"The Museum Quarter is not only about the past, but also about the future through the present. It's a connection between times. There's a beautiful tradition of time capsules. What could be better than a tree as a natural time capsule?" Vadim Krasnoselsky remarked today during an unofficial visit to the Pridnestrovian State Museum. The PMR President was accompanied by his wife.
The Krasnoselskys didn't come empty-handed. They brought seedlings. They explained that the planting material has a history. They collected acorns, the fruits and seeds of oak trees while on a walk in the Kitskany forestry, germinated them, and grew the seedlings at home one day. It was decided at a family meeting to plant them in the museum courtyard. Vadim Krasnoselsky noted that oaks are a traditional tree for the Pridnestrovian region, and are also symbolic for Tiraspol: acorns are depicted on the city's first coat of arms. They mentioned the fact that Pridnestrovie has long-lived oak trees – eight of them, ranging in age from 200 to 315 years. Oaks are a forest-forming species here. Approximately 10000 hectares are oak trees of the more than 30000 hectares of state forest land: 3500 hectares are natural oak groves, and over six thousand hectares are oak plantations. This forest fund is being expanded as part of a state program.
"Our current family contribution to the restoration of oak plantations, to the landscaping and beautification of the capital, and to the preservation of Pridnestrovian traditions is small in quantity – four saplings – but it is made with all our heart," Svetlana Krasnoselskaya noted.
