Exhibitions archive

December, 10, 2011 - March, 04, 2012

The exhibition, held in the Prague Castle Riding Hall, explores social and political activities of the founders of the renowned Romanov dynasty – tsars Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov and Alexis Mikhailovich Romanov-, and their spiritual guide and counsellor Patriarch Philaret as well. The exhibition project was to reveal the sovereigns’ strong impact exerted on the process of the development of the Russian state, the spiritual and social life of the Russian people, as they have made a great contribution to the improvement of the political and economic situation in the country, its legislative system, to the development of the Russian culture, arts and crafts. 130 precious articles, relating to the Tsars and their lifetime, are presented by the Moscow Kremlin Museums within the exhibition. The collection incorporates pieces of jewellery, arms and armour, horse trappings, garments and textiles, icons. Some of the items were transferred from the Kremlin funds for the first time.

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February, 21 – May, 10, 2012

The Kremlin museums' exhibition halls - the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace - host a specially selected exhibition dedicated to a legendary British artist of the XXth century Henry Moore. His works are being preserved in the world’s largest museums and his monumental sculptures are located around the world as public works of art. The exhibition is to give a retrospective of the Moore's career and oeuvre, from his early carvings in stone, wood and marble, to experiments into biomorphic surrealism in the 1930s, investigations into constructivism, abstract and figurative sculptures from the 1980s. The display also includes a remarkable collection of Moor’s graphics and drawings as well as fabrics tapestries, crafted according to his designs.

To learn more about learn more about the exhibition please visit the Henry Moore Foundation website.

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November, 17, 2011 - December, 18, 2011

The Moscow Kremlin museums participate in the exhibition project, which is being carried out by the Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents (RSAAD) to mark the 300th Anniversary of one of the most distinguished and renowned Russian scientists - Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. Remarkable historical items, related to the Lomonosov’s life, oeuvre and results of his scientific work are on display. At the exhibition the Moscow Kremlin museums present over 60 medals which serve as an implementation of the Lomonosov’s intention to create a “history in medals”, revealing the most important events of the Russian history as well as representing images of the Russian Grand princes, tsars and monarchs.

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October, 29, 2011 - February, 26, 2012

The Moscow Kremlin museums take part in the exhibition project, carried out by the State Hermitage Museum, which covers the history of the monument of Saint-Petersburg’s architecture and culture - the palace of the city’s first governor Alexander Menshikov. The exposition includes prints, objects of decorative and applied arts, weapons and banners, books, documents and photographs, numismatic objects and archaeological finds recording different stages in the history of the palace. Five precious exhibits from the Kremlin Museums are presented within the display – the dirk and swords executed by the Olonets craftsmen, of which one had belonged to His Serene Highness Aleksander Danilovich Menshikov.

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October, 27, 2011 – January, 20, 2012

The Moscow Kremlin museums assist in carrying out an exhibition project of the Russian Museum in the St. Michael's Castle, which is devoted to the culture of early Rus. The exhibition presents over three hundred artworks of the Xth-XVIIIth centuries from collections of the famous Russian museums, libraries and archives. The Moscow Kremlin Museums present over 40 outstanding artworks of the XIIth-XVIIth centuries, including icons, manuscript books, items of goldsmithery, pieces of pictorial and ornamental embroidery. Most of the items are usually exposed in the Armoury chamber or the Kremlin museums-cathedrals. Each of the presented articles is of high artistic and cultural value. Exhibits, worthy of special note, are the most ancient monuments of the Russian art of the pre-Mongolian period – items from Ryazan treasure-trove of the XIIth century.

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October, 28, 2011 – January, 31, 2012

At the exhibition in the Samara Regional Art Museum the Moscow Kremlin present its famous collection of the Russian arms and armour. Over a hundred remarkable items of the XVIIth-XXIth centuries are on display, including arms and military equipment, used by the Russian warriors in battle, ceremonial and hunting weapons of the Russian Tsars, Emperors, leaders of the Soviet government and the current government officials of the Russian Federation. The exposition is completed with examples of awarded weapons of the Russian Empire epoch, handcrafted arms granted to the museum by modern craftsmen, ceremonial and memorial arms executed in our time.

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October, 20 - November, 10, 2011

The exhibition, placed in the Front hall of the Armoury Chamber, is a collaborative cultural project, organized by the Moscow Kremlin museums with the assistance of the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie - the world's pre-eminent leader in the promotion of the values and culture of Fine Watchmaking in the main international markets. The exposition comprises over 60 meticulously selected timepieces from the largest European collections and museums, which serve as a brilliant example of the technical and artistic creativity of European watchmakers from the XVIth to the XXth century.

Presented together within the display they are to reveal the centuries-old history of the art of watchmaking, to "illustrate the milestones in the adventure of time, and the unique expertise of watchmakers who found, in Russia, a venue for their art".*

* the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie website

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October, 10, 2011 - January, 08, 2012

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of an international exhibition which is assembled in the Castle of Prangins of the Swiss National Museum, Switzerland. The project covers precious timepieces of the famous Breguet firm, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is considered to be the greatest watchmaker of the late XVIIIth - early XIXth century and the inventor of a new style and fashion in the art of watchmaking. At the exhibition the Moscow Kremlin Museums introduce unique artworks by the "Breguet" - pocket watches, two of which are regarded as some of the most technically-accomplished.

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September, 29, 2011 - January, 22, 2012

The exhibition, held in the Kazan Kremlin, has become one of the exhibition projects within the cultural collaborative programme carried out by the Moscow Kremlin museums and LUKOIL Oil Company in Russia’s regions. As the names of two museums are related to historical and cultural centers of the two cities the exhibition was decided to cover the history of the Moscow Kremlin. The display presents over a hundred items, each serving as an evidence of the past and revealing the process of Russia’s development – from the period of establishment of the Moscow state to the time of the last coronation happened in 1896. Among the exhibited rarities visitors can observe precious memorial items, which have been the property of the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov Mikhail Fyodorovich, personal belongings of Emperors Peter I, Peter II and Paul I, ambassadorial gifts sent from King Charles XI and King Charles XII of Sweden, masterpieces, crafted by order of Empress Catherine II, and unique pieces used during the coronation ceremony of Emperor Nicholas II.

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September, 07, 2011 - January, 12, 2012

For the first time in Russia the exposition, placed in the exhibition halls of the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, presents the oeuvre of the distinguished French fashion designer Paul Poiret. At the beginning of the XXth century he revolutionized the art of dressmaking and invented a new concept of woman's clothes. Through his unsurpassed contributions to the twentieth-century fashion and successful career as a fashion designer and a founder of several companies Poiret was considered to be a “King of Fashion”. The exhibition covers the most remarkable artworks by Poiret, which are to reveal the process of the development of the Art Deco style within the art of dressmaking, jewellery making, photography, graphic arts, production of accessories, perfumes and etc. The project was to mark the 100th Anniversary of the triumphal visit of Poiret to Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, where his famous collections and models had been demonstrated a century ago. The project has been supported by the well-known world’s museums, such as the Musée Galliera, also known as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, the Musee International de perfumerie de Grass, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and the State Hermitage Museum.

General partner of the project is Rosbank.
With the assistance of Gazpromexport, LUKOIL Oil Company, ConocoPhillips Russia Inc.

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June, 10 - September, 19, 2011

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of an international exhibition which is assembled in the Castle of Prangins of the Swiss National Museum, Switzerland. The project covers precious timepieces of the famous Breguet firm, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is considered to be the greatest watchmaker of the late XVIIIth - early XIXth century and the inventor of a new style and fashion in the art of watchmaking. At the exhibition the Moscow Kremlin Museums introduce unique artworks by the "Breguet" - pocket watches, two of which are regarded as some of the most technically-accomplished.

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May, 27 - September, 11, 2011

The exhibition, which presents precious items from the Moscow Kremlin funds in the Silver Museum of the Palazzo Pitti, has been arranged as one of the projects within the cross-cultural collaborative programme to mark the Year of Russian Language and Culture in Italy. Having been composed of masterpieces from the most ancient Russian museum - the Armoury Chamber -, the exposition was intended to introduce the Italian audience to the cultural heritage of Russia, and to demonstrate the history of the development of the magnificent Moscow Kremlin collection during several centuries. Over one hundred unique pieces of decorative and applied arts of the XIIth-XIXth centuries are on display, including Russian and European jewellery, weapons, ceremonial vestments, horse trappings. In former times most of the exhibits were carefully preserved in the Russian Tsar's treasury.

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May, 20 - August, 01, 2011

The exhibition in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace is held as one of the cultural projects within the cross-cultural collaborative programme which marks the Year of Italian Language and Culture in Russia. Over 100 unique masterpieces of the XVth-XVIIIth centuries are on display: exhibits from the famous Medici Treasury of the Silver Museum in the Palazzo Pitti, the Uffizi Gallery and from collections of the other Florentine museums. The project reveals social activities for culture and taste for art of the Medici collectors, beginning with Lorenzo the Magnificent to Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, who has bequeathed the Medici’s remarkable art collection to the Tuscan state. The visitors are to observe outstanding samples of glyptic art, stone carving, Florentine mosaics, precious pieces of ivory, bronze and jewellery. The display is completed with personal belongings and portraits of the representatives of all generations of the noble Medici dynasty.

General partner of the project is Vnesheconombank

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April, 08 - July, 24, 2011

The exposition, placed in the Moscow Kremlin Assumption Belfry incorporates outstanding artworks made from semi-precious stones. The exhibition project covers not only masterpieces by remarkable Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé, but also precious items executed by his renowned contemporaries - Alexey K. Denisov-Uralsky, Avenir Sumin and Ivan Britsyn, who frequently supplied the Court with lapidary articles and minerals. Pieces of workmanship from the Imperial Lapidary Factories of Yekateringburg, Peterhof, Kolyvan, the firm of Verfel and the Ural workshops are also on display. Exhibits, worthy of special attention, have been crafted by stonecutters of the famous Faberge firm, who mastered to perfection Russian techniques of working industrial, coloured stones.
Among the 400 items presented, visitors can observe precious articles from the Moscow Kremlin museums’ funds, exhibits of the leading museums of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Irkutsk, Yekateringburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, as well as masterpieces from the Cartier collection and other private collections, many of which are displayed in Moscow for the first time.

General partner of the project is Gasprombank

With the assistance of Statoil

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December, 21, 2010 - February, 13, 2011

The exposition, opened in the exhibition halls of the Vladimir museum, presents a remarkable collection from the the Moscow Kremlin funds comprising pieces of jewellery from the time of Empire style to the epoch of Art Nouveau. Over a hundred artworks, some of which were brought out from the Kremlin for the first time, are on display, including jewellery, domestic utensils, accessories, and memorabilia. Precious snuffboxes, medallions, purses, bracelets and rings, executed by distinguished silversmiths of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Vologda, Tula, reveal stylistic tendencies and innovations within the art of goldsmithery as well as their role in everyday life of the society. The exposed masterpieces have been produced by the renowned jewellery firm of Sazikov, Nichols and Plinke (Co.), the Grachev brothers, Postnikov, Ovchinnikov, Khlebnikov and Faberge.

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December, 20, 2010 – March, 15, 2011

The exhibition comprising masterpieces of the art of Presepio - a three dimensional representation of the birth of Jesus Christ – is timed to the New year celebrations and marks the year 2011 which has been declared the Year of Italian Language and Culture in Russia. Presepe is a tableau of Christ's Nativity, composed of mobile hand-made figurines by craftsmen of the House of Bourbon. The exposition presents the most well-known Nativity scenes, including the Annunciation to the shepherds, Tavern scene, Mauritanian carnival, Greens market, Textile market. All the sculptured compositions serve as detailed vignettes which portray contemporary life in the XVIIIth century Naples. Each of the exposed scenes, being both a remarkable work of art and an ethnographical relic, reveals the beauty and splendour of the Neapolitan Presepio.

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October, 26, 2010 – March, 09, 2011

The exhibition in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace presents foreign decorations belonged to Russian sovereigns from the Moscow Kremlin funds. Decorating the Russian monarchs with foreign orders can be regarded as an act of diplomatic recognition of the Russian State as one of the leading powerful countries of Europe, the Middle East and Far East, Asia and America. The exposition, comprising almost 300 items by renowned foreign goldsmiths, reveals the history and beauty of these artworks. It includes various insignia (stars, crosses and chains of different orders) as well as articles, relating to the main topic of the exhibition, i.e. portraits of the Emperors, their Order costumes, award documentation, statutes of the Orders and photomaterial.
The project is supported by the State Archive of the Russian Federation, State Archives of Ancient Documents, the State Historical Museum, State Hermitage Museum and other Russian museums.

General partner of the project is Gasprombank

Financial support was provided by E.ON Ruhrgas

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December, 10, 2010 - March, 27, 2011

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in an exhibition project, carried out by one of the leading Russian museums. The exposition in the State Tretyakov Gallery, dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the day of birth of Empresses Elizabeth Petrovna (1709–1762), incorporates exhibits from the largest museum collections of Moscow and Moscow region, i.e. items of jewellery, decorative and applied arts, graphic arts and sculpture, architectural sketches and models, which reveal the lifestyle of the Empress, the atmosphere and cultural tendencies at the Russian court of the XVIIIth century. Over 20 artworks from the Moscow Kremlin funds are exposed within the display, including memorial items, pieces of jewellery, tableware and cutlery, weapons.

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October, 07 - December, 12, 2010

The exhibition curated by the Moscow Kremlin Museums is held in Finland, the Design museum of Helsinki. It is dedicated to the main amusement of Russian Tsars and Emperors and presents a remarkable collection of the Moscow Kremlin exhibits, related to the history of royal hunting. Exploring peculiarities and traditions of the Russian hunting at the Tsar’s court, the exposition reveals this amusement as an elaborate ceremonial procession with its own stylistics, fashion and etc. The display depicts various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette. Remarkable items of hunting equipment and weapons are on display for the first time. Some of them were never taken abroad.

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September, 23, 2010 - January, 16, 2011

The exhibition in the capital of Norway, Oslo, in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design comprises masterpieces of religious art from the Moscow Kremlin museums’ funds, exploring all the beauty and magnificence of the Russian church, spiritual life and traditions. The exposition presents unique pieces of icon painting, miniature painting, wood carving, of pictorial and ornamental embroidery, jewellery. Chronologically it covers the period of the Middle Ages as the exhibits range in date from the XVth to XVIIth centuries.

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September, 16, 2010 - January, 09, 2011

For the first time in Russia outstanding artworks by French painter René Lalique are on display. Within the history of European jeweller's art his name is closely related to the formation and development of the delicate Art Nouveau style at the turn of the XIXth century. The exposition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin Museums comprises about 170 artworks of the very artist - unique pieces of jewellery and drawings of the late XIXth - early XXth century, as well as glass works in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. The project is supported by museums from all over the world and known private collections, which possess masterpieces of the artist. Among them are the State Hermitage museum, State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan, Danish Museum of Art & Design (Kunstindustrimuseet), Copenhagen, Musée Lambinet in Versailles, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, Collection of LALIQUE S.A. in Paris.

General partner of the project is Vnesheconombank.

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May, 25 - August, 15, 2010

The exposition, opened in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin, comprises outstanding Turkish artworks from the funds of the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the city called "a cultural capital of Europe of 2010". The exhibition explores variety of techniques and forms of the Turkish decorative and applied arts as well as delicacy of craftsmanship of the makers at the Sultans' court. The display includes remarkable pieces of weaponry, jewellery, interior utensils, executed on the order of the Turkish Sultans or granted to them as precious gifts. Items of particular attention are refined artworks of Islamic calligraphy, which excelled during the Ottoman era. Most part of the presented exhibits is inscribed with the titles of their imperial owners and reveals some interesting facts from their history of life.

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From May, 05, 2010

The exhibition, placed in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber, was organized on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Its exposition explores artistic and historical value of various soviet decorations, instituted during the war, which became the symbols of a great victory gained by the Russian people over the aggressor. The exhibition presents the collection of Orders and medals from the Kremlin museums' funds, the most noteworthy of which are the highest military decorations – medals of the Order of Victory and of the Order of Glory of three classes.

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March, 05 - May, 24, 2010

The exhibition in Paris, the Louvre museum, was organized as a part of the "Year of Russia" celebrations in France. The exposition, dedicated to the Russian medieval art, covers the history of Christian Russia, from the IXth to the XVIIIth century. The display includes exhibits from over 20 Russian museums. Through the grandeur of the project and wide range of art-historically important pieces, revealing the unsurpassed craftsmanship of the Russian makers, the display is considered to become one of the most exciting ad noteworthy events among the other exhibitions related to the Russian medieval art. The Moscow Kremlin Museums present over 60 artworks of the XIIth-XVIIth centuries, which are of great artistic and historical value, i.e. the icons, manuscript books, items of goldsmithery, pieces of pictorial and ornamental embroidery.

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March, 10 - June, 7, 2010

For the first time the Moscow Kremlin Museums presents an exhibition of Russian and Turkish artworks of the XVIth-XVIIth centuries in Istanbul, in the famous Topkapi Palace. Pieces by Turkish makers were brought to Moscow by merchants and ambassadors as gifts to Russian Tsars. In former times these precious items were carefully preserved in the Russian Tsar's treasury. Most part of the Russian collection was executed in the Kremlin workshops. Both Russian and Turkish artworks were used during gala official ceremonies.
The exposition comprises ceremonial weapons and horse harness, items of gold and silver, furnishings for the Tsars' chambers and interior utensils for the Kremlin cathedrals, precious vestments as well as some articles of the state regalia.

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December, 9, 2009 - January, 14, 2010

The exhibition, placed in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber, is timed to the New Year's holiday. Its exposition serves as an expression of gratitude to different organizations and persons who assisted in replenishing of the Moscow Kremlin museum's collection with new outstanding exhibits. The displayed items include artworks executed by the world-known jewellery firms of Faberge, F. Lorie, F. Kochly, K. Bock, as well as articles from the Imperial Porcelain Manufacture. All the pieces are of delicate workmanship and of great historical and artistic value.

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November, 30, 2009 - February, 07, 2010

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of a large international exhibition, put on in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The project correlates with the famous "December evenings of Svyatoslav Richter" and introduces the audience to one of the epochs in the history of the European art. At the exhibition Moscow Kremlin Museums present 10 items, including the London service of Nicholas I, figures of musicians and an officer by Nuremberg makers, as well as pieces from the Kremlin set, designed on basis of drawings by painter Solntsev.

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November, 20, 2009 - January, 20, 2010

The exhibition of the Moscow Kremlin Museums in the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy, is devoted to the history of cultural relations between the Moscow State and Italian lands in the XVth-XVIIth centuries. It was the golden age of the Moscow State and development of its official and court ceremonials. About 100 artworks represent the early period of diplomatic, trade and cultural contacts of Moscow with Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence. Items made of precious Italian fabrics in Russia form the basis of the exhibition. The exposition also comprises items of Italian decorative and applied arts, icons, cold arms and firearms, utensils employed in such solemn state ceremonies as coronations of grand princes and tsars, royal receptions and military parades. Exhibits of particular interest are the items relating to the name of Sophia Palaiologos, which include precious reliquaries.

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November, 05, 2009 - January, 11, 2010

The exhibition in the Altai State Museum of Fine Arts in Barnaul, which is dedicated to the main amusement of Russian Tsars and Emperors, presents a remarkable collection of the Moscow Kremlin exhibits, relating to the history of royal hunting. Many of the items are displayed for the first time. They reveal peculiarities and traditions of the Russian hunting and especially at the Tsars' court, where it was organized as a ceremonial procession with its own stylistics, tastes, fashion and etc. The display depicts various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette.

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November, 10, 2009 – March, 10, 2010

The exhibition, placed in the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, is correlated with a celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the greatest event in the Russian history of the XVIIIth century - the Battle of Poltava. The project participants are the world-known museums. About 160 unique items form the Kremlin collections are on display, i.e. the portraits of persons involved in the Great Northern War, officer decorations, gold commemorative medals, pieces of Russian and Swedish arms of the early XVIIIth century, personal equipment belonged to Charles XII, Peter I and his companions, artworks by Russian silversmiths and enamelled items, dedicated to themes of Poltava. The exhibits, worthy of particular attention, are the trophies, captured by Russian troops during the Battle: flags, kettledrums, drums, banners' peaks, arms and Swedish officer decorations.

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October, 1, 2009 - January, 17, 2010

The exhibition, organized in the museum-preserve "Pavlovsk", is dedicated to Empress Maria Fyodorovna, the wife of Emperor Paul I, mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I, the owner of the residence in Pavlovsk. The project is timed to a jubilee date marking the Empress's 250-th Anniversary. It presents exhibits from the famous Russian museums, i.e. the State Hermitage Museum and Russian Museum, the State Museum-Preserves "Peterhof" and "Gatchina", the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg as well as the National Library and State Archive of the Russian Federation. At the exhibition Moscow Kremlin Museums introduce 11 unique artworks, ten of which have been executed by the Empress with her own hand.

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September, 18, 2009 - January, 10, 2010

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of an international exhibition in Italy, the Prato Textile Museum. The display presents items from the largest museums of Russia, i.e. the State Hermitage Museum and Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery as well as from the famous collections of Italy. The project, comprising about 150 pieces, explores the evolution of art and fashion as a process involved in the development of cultural and economical relations between Italy and Russia from the XIVth to the XVIIIth centuries. Six items from the Kremlin Museums' collection of Italian fabrics include a remarkable exhibit – the sakkos of the XVIIth century which belonged to Patriarch Nikon.

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July, 11 - September 13, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of a large exhibition comprising items from the collections of Russian museums in a cultural centre of the Grimaldi Forum Monaco. The project is supported by the State Historical Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, State museum "The Kuskovo estate", State Museum-Preserve "Tsarskoye Selo". The vast exposition includes hundreds of masterpieces, revealing several centuries of the Russian history. The exposition of about 500 masterpieces explore the magnificence of the Russian court under the reign of the last Tsars, Alexander III and his son Nicholas, as well as the international influence of Moscow, where several All-Russian exhibitions of the late XIXth century took place.

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July, 15 - October, 11, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assist in the organization of a large international exhibition in Portugal, the city of Lisbon, the National Museum of Ancient Art. The display reveals cross-cultural dialogue that followed the establishment of Portugal's world trading network in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Portugal's voyages and explorations led to an unprecedented interchange of knowledge, techniques and imagery reflected in design and decoration of outstanding artworks. At the exhibition the Kremlin Museums present a masterpiece of goldsmithery: the figured censer, executed by Ditrich Utermarke in Hamburg, in the first quarter of the XVIIth century.

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June, 18 - September, 28, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of the exhibition going to be opened in the State Historical Museum. The project, dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, explores historical events happened during the "decisive battle" of the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721), in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark, Poland-Lithuania and Saxony fought against Sweden for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea. The Kremlin Museums introduce ten memorial items, including military bugles, cuirasses, Russian and Swedish officer decorations and insignia of the Chief-officers guard of Emperor Peter I.

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June, 25 - September, 7, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of an international exhibition going to be opened in France, Paris, the Louvre museum. The exposition comprises antique mechanical watches of the famous Breguet firm, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet - the renowned horologist of the late XVIIIth - early XIXth century - who invented a new style and fashion in art of watchmaking. At the exhibition Moscow Kremlin Museums introduce unique timepieces by "Breguet" - three pocket watches, of which two are regarded as some of the most technically-accomplished.

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June, 17 - September, 22, 2009

The exhibition in the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace presents more than 200 outstanding artworks by makers of Augsburg of the XVIth-XVIIIth centuries. Since the Renaissance this free Imperial city has been one of the major European centers. The exposition comprises precious pieces executed by renowned goldsmiths, painted Meissen porcelain, ivory carvings, remarkable Augsburg mechanical watches, engravings. It also includes a rare collection of sculpture, the pride of which is a relief depicting Mother of God and a Child, executed by Hans Dauher in 1520 for Manuel I of Portugal.

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May, 29 - September, 20, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of the exhibition going to be opened in the Nicolas Hall of the State Hermitage Museum. The project is dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Its exposition comprises about 1000 unique artworks relating to this great historical event, 70 of which are brought from the Kremlin collection. Precious pieces of goldsmithery by Swedish makers, granted to the Russian Tsar by the Swedish last pre-war embassy, important historical records, memorial items, including personal equipment and uniforms belonged to Peter I, Charles XII and Augustus II, are the highlight of the exhibition. It also presents the trophies, captured by Russian troops during the Battle of Poltava, i.e. kettledrums, drums, banners' peaks, arms and officer decorations. You will see the battle painting, graphics, flags, arms and armour, commemorative medals and goblets and other remarkable items executed to mark the occasion of the Russian Perfect Victory.

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May, 15 - June, 15, 2009

The opening of the exhibition in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber coincides with the International Museum Day - May, 18. It represents a history of the Moscow Kremlin Museums depicted in photos of 1919-2009, most of which have never been exhibited. Some of the pictures are not the artworks of professional photography but were taken by the Museum's workers as a vivid illustration of the most interesting moments in the Kremlin and his museums history.

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May, 7 - September, 13, 2009

The exhibition at the Sackler gallery of Smithsonian Institution, USA, presents a unique collection of the Russian Tsars' treasure, formed through diplomatic and cultural relations between the Russian state and Eastern countries. It comprises over 60 items brought as lavish gifts and tributes from Iran and Ottoman Empire. The displayed ceremonial arms and armour, remarkable horse trappings, artworks of gold and gems, precious fabrics and regalia, the earliest of which trace back to the era of Golden Horde, were used on gala occasions, during various court and state ceremonies.

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March, 26 - May, 10, 2009

A unique sample of the mid-XVIth century Russian weapon art is going to be exhibited in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber. It is the helmet of Tsar Ivan the Terrible from the Royal Armoury collection in Stockholm, the oldest museum of Sweden, - a masterpiece, which is remarkable both for the name of its owner and for its destiny, related to important events in the history of Russia, Sweden and Poland.

The Royal Armoury in Stockholm is the oldest museum of Sweden with a collection containing masterpieces of jewellery making and weapon art, i.e. royal treasuries, arms and armour of high historical and cultural value. One the most distinguished exhibits of the museum is the helmet of Russian Tsar Ivan IV.

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March, 10 - April, 12, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of a display going to be opened in the exhibition hall of Federal archives. It is the first exhibition in the series of museum projects dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. The exposition includes historical records of the Great Northern War's major happenings from the largest Russian archival depository RSAAD (State Archives of Ancient Documents). The Moscow Kremlin Museums present over 10 memorial items relating to this great historical event and its main personage - Emperor Peter I.

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February, 20 - May, 22, 2009

Display in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin presents the collection of treasuries from the Kuwait National Museum, including articles of the Mughal rulers of India of the XVIth-XVIIIth centuries. The exhibition is a part of a long-term project "Royal and Imperial treasuries in the Moscow Kremlin". Its exposition with more than 250 artworks of the Mughal period, i.e. jewellery of personal adornment, precious weapons, carved jade and crystal bowls finished with precious stones, reveals variety of techniques and craftsmanship of the Indian makers, especially technique of enameling and inlaying. The most impressive items are the precious stones inscribed with the titles of their imperial owners or decorated with delicate ornamental carving.

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December, 17, 2008 - March, 15, 2009

The exhibition in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace is fully dedicated to the art of the Sublime Port from the XVIth to XVIIth centuries. Consisting of more than 80 exhibits it is based on a unique Kremlin collection of the Turkish artworks executed in the period of active diplomatic and trade relations between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The exposition includes ancient arms, luxurious horse trappings, articles decorated with precious metals and stones, embroidered textiles and some articles of the Russian Tsars' regalia, such as orb and staff by the Istanbul makers which belonged to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.

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December, 10, 2008 - February, 15, 2009

Exhibition in the exhibition hall of the Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents (RSAAD) is dedicated to the major administrative reforms of the XVIIIth century carried out by Peter the Great - administrative division of Russia and development of governorship. Main articles of the display are historical records, graphical and cartographic materials from the largest Russian archival depository RSAAD. Unique implements from collections of the leading Russian museums reveal various aspects of everyday life in Russian guberniyas (provinces).

The Moscow Kremlin Museums represent church utensils, cold arms and firearms, precious tableware, accessories as well as articles of domestic utility.

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С 5 декабря 2008 г. по 18 января 2009 г.

Музеи Московского Кремля принимают участие в крупной выставке, организованной в Музее национального искусства г. Дели в рамках празднования года России в Индии. На выставке представлено около 200 уникальных произведений искусства прославленной фирмы Фаберже из собраний крупных российских музеев и частных коллекций. Музеи Кремля демонстрируют на выставке шесть серебряных предметов знаменитой фирмы, выполненных в оригинальном "русском стиле". Среди них великолепные подарочные ковши, братина и репрезентативная кружка на подставке в виде шариков.

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December, 10, 2008 - March, 29, 2009

The exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museums is the second part of the project of cultural exchange, resulted from collaboration between the two world-famous museums in Russia and Britain. The Moscow Kremlin Museums present in London its magnificent collection of dresses and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. The exposition includes over 170 articles dating back to the XVIIIth century from the epoch of Tsar Peter II to the times of Emperor Nicholas II, i.e. coronation uniforms and regalia of the Russian rulers, secular men's clothes, costumes of Orders and etc. Various accessories, precious items of jewellery, court arms, illustrated books and portraits of Emperors are worthy of particular attention.

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October, 31, 2008 - March, 1, 2009

The exhibition in Izhevsk, dedicated to the main amusement of Russian Tsars and Emperors, presents a remarkable collection of the Moscow Kremlin exhibits, which relate to the history of royal hunting. Many of the items are displayed for the first time. They reveal peculiarities and traditions of the Russian hunting and especially at the Tsars’ court, where it was organized as a ceremonial procession with its own stylistics, tastes, fashion and etc. The display depicts various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette.

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October 12, 2008 - February 1, 2009

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of a large international project in the Institut Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt, Germany, and present six outstanding exhibits from collection of precious textile, which reveals peculiarities of coronation ceremonies in the Russian Empire. The exposition is dedicated to Russian art and culture around 1900 and represents numerous masterpieces from various Russian and west-european museums, i.e. paintings and sculpture, items of applied and decorative arts, stage design, architecture, furniture, music, film and photography. The programme of this historical and cultural review contains many related events from readings and lectures to musical offerings and theatre performances.

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September, 26, 2008 - January, 10, 2009

The exhibition in the Assumption Belfry presents jewellery artworks of the world-renowned Italian company, established by Mario Buccellati, a goldsmith of Milan, in 1919. Having mastered the art of metal working and jewellery making he developed his own style, improved traditional techniques and decorative methods. Among the 150 exhibited articles, executed by Mario Buccellati and his sun Gianmaria, you will see precious rings, bracelets and brooches, jewellery sets, figured silver items, decorative cups and many other artworks from private and museums' collections of Milan, Florence, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, etc. The display, illustrating the history and evolution of the Buccellati production, is one of the projects, organized by the Moscow Kremlin museums to represent the greatest jewellery firms of the XXth century to the Russian audience.

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September, 5 - November, 16, 2008

The exhibition, placed in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, represents a remarkable historical collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in England, London. It covers two centuries of British fashionable dress and reveals the history and evolution of high fashion and styles during this period. One can see elegant rococo gowns and petticoats, court mantuas and domestic robes of the XVIIIth century, walking suits and riding habits, streamy, almost transparent tunics of the so-called naked fashion, mantles and capes of the late XIXth century. Accessories of different materials, decorated with precious stones, metals and outstanding hand-sewn lace, are worthy of particular attention. The display includes luxurious fans, tiny parasols, embroidered handkerchiefs, woman's and man's shoes, headwear and bags.

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May, 16 - August, 10, 2008

For the first time the Moscow Kremlin museums represent over 50 masterpieces, executed from natural raw materials, in the Kaliningrad Amber Museum. The exhibition includes different items of applied art and tableware, i.e. goblets, jugs, cups, candlesticks, crosses and panagias made of amber, nacreshells, semiprecious stones by makers of the Ottoman Empire, Western Europe and Russia in the XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. The most part of the exhibits has been preserved as a private collection of the Royal family and used for decoration of interiors of the Faceted Chamber and Golden Tsarina’s Chamber during official ceremonials.

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May, 21 - July, 16, 2008

In the exhibition halls of the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace you can visit an exhibition, dedicated to art of samurais' aristocracy, whose interests and taste influenced the development of the whole Japanese culture. The display represents over 70 remarkable artworks of different epochs from collection of the Tokyo National Museum, i.e. arms and armour, preserved as family relics, utensils for tea ceremonies, costumes and dresses of the Noh theatre, articles as evidences of samurais’ taste and knowledge of history and art of their country and nation. All the precious exhibits, revealing aesthetics of Japanese samurais, are masterpieces of delicate workmanship and worthy of particular attention.

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February, 22 - June, 01, 2008

The Moscow Kremlin museums represent over 80 items of the world’s largest collection of silver in the Maximilian museum in Augsburg, Germany. Artworks by famous Augsburg makers were brought to Moscow as ambassadorial gifts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Sweden. The exhibition includes articles of different styles and techniques, i.e. accessories, attires, sculptural decorations, goblets, wine vessels, wash-tubs etc., which vividly depict the excellence of workmanship of Augsburg silversmiths.

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February, 20 - April, 20, 2008

The exhibition, placed in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin, is dedicated to modern art weapons by the well known Russian armourers to reveal all styles of author's cold steel. It gives an opportunity to look through the history of art knives in Russia with all its variety of forms and tendencies. Visitors are to see different methods of art metal working, genres of the artworks, represented by historical items of traditional styles as well as mould-breaking forms and images.

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December, 12, 2007 - April, 6, 2008

The exhibition, placed in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace, represents artworks which were executed during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the first ruler of Russia who assumed the title of Tsar. The exposition consists of the exhibits from the Kremlin cathedrals, Armoury Chamber and museum funds, i.e. icons, embroideries, works of silversmiths. The display reveals the interaction between art and cultural wealth, when forms and artistic features of items are closely connected to the spiritual feeling and religious subject matter.

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December, 7, 2007 - February, 10, 2008

The exhibition of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, placed in the State Museum-Panorama "Battle of Stalingrad" in Volgograd, is one of the gala occasions for the city. It represents over 150 exhibits of the Armoury collection. The display includes the basic artworks of the Kremlin Museums, i.e. items of the late XVIth-XVIIth centuries, which were executed by makers of the Kremlin workshops, granted to Tsars as ambassadorial gifts and purchased abroad for the palace treasury. Visitors will see collections of goldsmithery, fabrics, weapons and armour, ceremonial horse harness. Almost all the exhibits are both wonders of delicate workmanship and monuments of the Russian history.

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November, 20, 2007 - March, 9, 2008

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assist in the organization of a large international exhibition in France, the Palace of Versailles, which is dedicated to history of the silver furniture. The display demonstrates precious articles from the largest world’s royal collections of Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden, museums of Dresden, Paris etc. The Moscow Kremlin Museums represent six silver items executed by the European makers as ambassadorial gifts to the Russian Tsars, i.e. interior utensils of the XVIIth century, chased plates with engraved mythological and biblical scenes. All the articles, especially the decorative sculptures usually placed near the fireplaces, evoke the splendour of the European court life as much through the profusion and sparkle of the precious metal as through the excellence of the craftsmanship.

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November, 19, 2007 - February, 27, 2008

The exhibition, placed in the Cross Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace, is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the restoration of patriarchate in Russia. It represents artworks which reveal dramatic and gala occasions of the Russian history. Unique papers, photographs and paraphernalia, belonged to metropolitans and patriarchies, illustrate their way of life, traditions and social activity. The visitors will see luxurious patriarchal vestments, sometimes executed by request of Tsars, precious church plate by the Tsars’ silversmiths as well as icons of the remarkable icon painters.

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October, 17, 2007 - January, 13, 2008

Outstanding porcelain artworks by makers, painters and sculptures of the Imperial Porcelain Factory are represented in the exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry. Lots of them are exhibited in Moscow for the first time. The collection includes items related to the Imperial family of the Romanovs and reveals the preferences of the rulers and their fancy for art. The most noteworthy articles are snuff-boxes as customary attributes of high life in the middle of the XVIIIth century and component items of the personal porcelain service of Empress Elizabeth, executed in Baroque style.

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September, 19, 2007 - January, 15, 2008

The exhibition, organized in the Samara Regional Art Museum, represents over 140 masterpieces of the Russian goldsmithery of the XVIIIth-XXth centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection. The visitors will see various precious items by remarkable Moscow, St Petersburg and provincial makers of the renowned jeweller's firms. The modern articles, executed by the leading factories of our country, are worthy of particular attention.

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September, 10 - November, 18, 2007

The exhibition of the Moscow Kremlin collection in the capital of United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi is the first original project, organized in this country. Ceremonial weapons, armings and harness' sets of the XVIth - XVIIth centuries, represented in the exhibition hall “Emirate Palace”, reveal the development of the Russian court life and culture during many centuries. A high emphasis is placed on arms, executed in the Middle East countries.

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July, 10 - September, 17, 2007

The exhibition in the National Museum of Art in Osaka is the first self-contained project of the Moscow Kremlin Museums in Japan. The display represents about 200 masterpieces, revealing the cultural heritage of the ancient Russian capital – Moscow. The artworks date from 1147 (the first historical mention of Moscow in letters) to the very XXth century. The most noteworthy items are medieval pieces of virtu, including artworks by the Kremlin workshops. The symbol of the exhibition is the Moscow Kremlin Easter Egg – one of the precious gifts, created on order of Emperor Nicholas II by the makers of the well-known Faberge Firm.

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June, 29 - October, 21, 2007

The exhibition, placed in the in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, is dedicated to the Russian school of icon painting of the XVIIth century. It presents obscure, newly restored outstanding icons and items of arts and crafts from the Kremlin Museums collection. We will see magnificent artworks, executed by the renowned icon painters of the Michael Fyodorovich Romanov’s workshop, i.e. Istoma Savin and his sons, Nikita Davidov, Marc Matveev and others.

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October, 27, 2007 - February, 16, 2008

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assist in the organization of a large international exhibition, put on in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The display reveals the unprecedented cross-cultural dialogue that followed the establishment of Portugal's world trading network in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Within the exhibition the Kremlin Museums represent 2 masterpieces of goldsmithery: figured censer, executed in Hamburg in the first quarter of the XVIIth century, and Belgian nautilus cup of the middle of the XVIth century.

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April, 21 - July, 10, 2007

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assist in the organization of a large international exhibition, put on in USA, exhibition gallery of the Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, Virginia. The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the first permanent English settlement in North America, which turned out to become a new nation. The display reveals the main events of the Jamestown Settlement’s foundation and development as a part of the world's history. Within the display visitors will see the exhibits of Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center and unique items from the international collections all over the world, where the Moscow Kremlin Museums represent 19 items from the collection of the ambassadorial gifts.

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May, 25 - August, 25, 2007

Antique precious items of the renowned French firm Cartier, exhibited in the Assumption Belfry, form the display of a great value. For the first time in Moscow the exhibition represents jewellery which became the symbol of the jewellery-making in the late XIXth - XXth centuries. We will see the legendary mystery clocks, garland style jewellery, exotic orientalist Art Deco designs, including the daringly colourful "Tutti Frutti" artworks.

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March, 20 – June, 17, 2007

The exhibition in the Edo-Tokyo museum is the first self-contained project of the Moscow Kremlin Museums in Japan. The display represents about 200 masterpieces, revealing the cultural heritage of the ancient Russian capital – Moscow. The artworks date from 1147 (the first historical mention of Moscow in letters) to the very XXth century. The most noteworthy items are medieval pieces of virtu, including artworks by the Kremlin workshops. The symbol of the exhibition is the Moscow Kremlin Easter Egg – one of the precious gifts, created on order of Emperor Nicholas II by the makers of the well-known Faberge Firm.

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December, 20, 2006 - February, 11, 2007

The exhibition, placed in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, is organized by the Moscow Kremlin Museums in collaboration with the leading Moscow collectors of post-cards. It represents a variety of souvenir and picture post-cards, cards with genre painting, and over 400 cards with views of the Moscow Kremlin of the XIXth – XXth centuries. Each post-card is a work of art, as well as vivid illustration of the historical epoch. Within the exhibition visitors have an opportunity to learn more about history of the picture post-cards by means of video films, to send e-mail with images of old post-cards, to decorate cards, executed in style of the early XXth century, with their own portraits!

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November, 7, 2006 - February, 15, 2007

About 80 unique items from the State Hermitage museum's Treasure Gallery are represented in the exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry. The exhibition successfully continues the long-term project "Royal and Imperial treasuries in the Moscow Kremlin". Within this programme several exhibitions have been already displayed, i.e. "Treasury Cabinet of August the Strong. From the Green Vault collection, Dresden", "The Habsburg Cabinet of Arts and Wonders: Magic of Nature and Mechanism of the Universe", "The Treasures of the French Crown in the Kremlin". Today the forth presentation of the world-renowned jewellery collection takes place in the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

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October, 27 - November, 26, 2006

The Moscow Kremlin Museums has become the organizer of a large exhibition in the Moscow State Exhibition Hall "New Manege". The display represents the unique collection of the historical monuments and artworks, executed in the XXth century as gifts to the leaders of the Soviet Union (from V.I. Lenin to M.S. Gorbachev). The display is exhibited with the assistance of the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts as well as other Russian museums and archives. The most noteworthy items, belonged to a might-have-been project of 1960s - the Museum of Gifts to the Soviet Union -, are from the funds of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
The general partner of the project is "SISTEMA" JSFC
With the support by Highland Gold Mining Ltd.

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October, 26, 2006 - January, 14, 2007

The Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in organization of a large international exhibition in Italy, the Palazzo Ducale, Genova. The display is dedicated to the history of development of Russian art, literature and theatre in the first half of the twentieth century. It indicates that Italian judges of art consider the Russian culture of that period to be worthy of particular attention. One of the Faberge Firm's jewellery masterpieces is exhibited within the display - Easter egg "Military", the gift of Emperor Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.

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September, 25, 2006 - January, 8, 2007

The vast exhibition, dedicated to the Moscow Kremlin, is displayed in the capital of China, Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace in Peking. It represents the Kremlin as a historical and cultural phenomenon, the centre of spiritual and social life in Russia.
Over 260 items, among which the earliest articles are of the XIIth-XIIIth centuries, help the visitors to get acquainted with the world-famed masterpieces from the Moscow Kremlin Museums' collection.

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September, 20 - November, 16, 2006.

The exhibition, placed in the Armoury Chamber's vestibule, represents some articles of the Emperor's private life. During lifetime, Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna have been interested in arts and creative work. Five their children have gotten the traditional home education, including lessons in drawing. Over 60 exhibits of the display, i.e. drawings of the members of the Imperial family, memorial items, photographs, documents, - characterize the reverent attitude of Emperor Alexander III and his relatives to Art and artistic creativity.

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October, 21, 2006 - January, 28, 2007

The exhibition in the Gilbert Collection of Decorative Arts represents the magnificent collection of the English unique works of art, being kept in the Moscow Kremlin Museums. The exhibition is dedicated to the development of diplomatic, trade, and cultural ties between England and Russia from the XVIth - to the XVIIth century. The Moscow Kremlin Museums rendered about 100 items for the display. Its centerpiece is the collection of the English silver works of art and fire-arms from the Armory Chamber.

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September, 17, 2006 - January, 15, 2007

The exhibition in the Nizhni Novgorod State Art Museum presents 136 rare monuments from the collection of Museum-Preserve “The Moscow Kremlin”. The museum items are dedicated to royal and imperial hunting. Many of them are on display for the first time. The exhibition tells about various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette.

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September, 12 - November, 26, 2006

177 exhibit items, representing the Moscow Kremlin Museums, are exhibited in Chelyabinsk, the Regional Museum of Local Lore, History and Economy. The exhibition displays the basic artworks from the Armoury Chamber collection, i.e. the collections of jewellery art, fabrics, weapons and armour, horse harness, the best production of the Moscow Kremlin workshops.

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September, 11 - November, 19, 2006

The Moscow Kremlin Museums participate in large international exhibition in the Royal Castle, in Warsaw "The Magnificence of Silver... Silver of the XVIth-XIXth centuries from the lands of the former and the modern Republic in Russian collections". The exhibition represents over 40 unique artworks of the Polish and Lithuanian silversmiths of the XVIth-XIXth centuries from the collection of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, preserved in the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

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July, 6 - July, 19, 2006

The exhibition "History in time", placed in the Armoury Chamber's vestibule is dedicated to the 160th Anniversary of the famous Swiss Ulysse Nardin firm. For the first time, in the context of the exhibition, the masterpieces of watch making are represented. The visitors will see the exclusive models of Ulysse Nardin, and other pieces of virtu, i.e. the first chronograph, scaled with a decimal fraction interval, the most unusual entirely wooden clock of M. Bronnikov, one of the oldest astronomical clocks - "Astrarium" of Dondi, the first clock with built-in planetarium of Leroy.

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June, 30 - September, 10, 2006

The exhibition "Diplomatic gifts. The world language" is a magnificent project of the Moscow Kremlin Museums and State Hermitage Museum. It runs in Saint-Petersburg in the State complex "The Palace of Soviets". More than 100 exhibit items, brought from the Kremlin Museums, were executed for precious gifts and palace implements; ceremonial articles and artworks, being preserved as national relics, let the visitors reveal the specificity of diplomatic relationships between Russia and its business partners, the history of cultural, economic and military cooperation.

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June, 29 - August, 27, 2006

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assists in the organization of a large international exhibition "Wooden sculpture from the Russian land" in Italy, where pieces of virtu are represented owing to such significant Russian museums as the State History Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Vrubel Regional Museum of Fine Arts. 8 items of wooden plastic arts from the Moscow Kremlin Museums reflect all the types of wooden carving, as well as peculiar influence of the Byzantine iconographic tradition on tradition of folk carving.

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June, 20 - August, 27, 2006

170 exhibit items, representing the Moscow Kremlin Museums, are exhibited in Omsk, the Vrubel Regional Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition displays the basic artworks from the Armoury Chamber collection, i.e. the collections of jewellery art, fabrics, weapons and armour, horse harness, the best production of the Moscow Kremlin workshops.

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June, 16 - October, 1, 2006

For the first time the Moscow Kremlin Museums display its renowned collection of the Carl Faberge Firm’s artworks in Finland, Museum Centre Vapriikki. 194 masterpieces of the Faberge's goldsmiths and theirs contemporaries are of different styles and genres, representing jewellery and lapidary's art in the period of flourishing - at the turn of the XIX-XXth centuries: i.e. diamond adornments, representational silverware, graceful stone figurines and, certainly, the unique Imperial Easter Surprise Eggs, which are the key items of the Faberge's collection, the symbols of rebirth and eternity.

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May, 25 - September, 10, 2006

The exhibition in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven‚ Connecticut, USA, represents the magnificent collection of the English unique works of art, being kept in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, as well as historical records - illuminated documents from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. The exhibition is dedicated to the development of diplomatic, trade, and cultural ties between England and Russia from the XVIth - to the XVIIth century. The Moscow Kremlin Museums rendered about 100 items for the display. Its centerpiece is the collection of the XVIth- and XVIIth-century English silver works of art and fire-arms from the Armory Chamber.

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May, 19 - August, 2, 2006

The jubilee exhibition, placed in the Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace, continues the long-term programme "Royal and Imperial treasuries in the Moscow Kremlin". For the first time in Russia this exhibition represents 38 unique works of art from the magnificent jewellery European collection - the Dresden Green Vault. Among the most precious pieces of the XVIIIth century there are enamelled portraits, cabinet decorative sets made of coloured stones and decorated with splendid cameos; figurines with baroque pearls and items of jewellery garnitures. The most noteworthy brilliant masterpieces from the collection of August the Strong are the Hat agraffe with the illustrious green diamond of 41 ct, called "the Dresden Green" and Epaulette with the white brilliant weighing 50 ct, called "the Saxon white".

General sponsor of the project is Finanzgruppe-Sparkassen, with the support by E.ON RUHRGAS.

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March, 29 - September, 3, 2006

The Moscow Kremlin Museums assists in the organization of a large international exhibition "Russia!" in Spain, the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. 28 exhibits, including items of the Russian icon painting, embroidery, jewellery of the XVth to XVIIth centuries (in particular, works by the makers of the Armoury Chamber ) represent the rarity of the Russian medieval culture during the XVth-XVIIth centuries.

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March, 25 - May, 7, 2006

Мoscow Kremlin Museums participate in large international exhibition in Japan, Kobe city, Kansai International Cultural Center. The exhibition is dedicated to Napoleon, one of the most eminent persons in world history and the art of his time, which influenced the culture of many countries of the world.

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March, 11, 2006 - October, 4, 2006

The Great jubilee exhibition of the Moscow Kremlin will run both in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace and in the exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry. The display in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace is dedicated to the 18th century, period of gradual reorganization of the ancient Kremlin depositories into a museum. The exhibition in the Assumption Belfry is dedicated to the history of the Armoury Chamber museum in 1806-1917. More then 300 artworks, i.e. state regalia, ceremonial court items, salvage, portraits of Emperors and memorial items linked to the names of the monarchs, permit either to reveal the peculiarity of the Armoury Chamber's formation and activity or illustrate the role of Russian Emperors in the course of the funds' developing as well as their influence on exhibiting principles of the first court museum of history and Russian antiquities.
The exhibition is put on with the help of AB ZAO "Gasprombank"

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February, 2 - April, 9, 2006

More than 150 exhibits of Moscow Kremlin Museums are on display in  the Samara Regional Museum of Art. the exhibition presents basic monuments from the Armoury collection, including collection of jewellery art, fabrics, armours and weapons, horse harness, best artworks of Kremlin art workshops.

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January, 5 - February, 12, 2006

Мoscow Kremlin Museums participate in large international exhibition in Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to Napoleon, one of the most eminent persons in world history and the art of his time, which influenced the culture of many countries of the world.

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December, 21, 2005 - April, 1, 2006

Six rare exhibits from Moscow Kremlin Museums are on display in the Russian Museum of Ethnography of Saint Petersburg "Guards of the Motherland", dedicated to the history, traditions and revival of the Cossacks nowadays. The display tells about bright originality and heroism of the Cossacks - protectors of the Motherland.

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December, 14, 2005 - February, 15, 2006

On display in the Asumption Belfry are about 100 museum items, brought to the Moscow Court in the 17th century as governmental and private donations. All the states, with the which Russia supported diplomatic relations in the 17th century, leaved their "visiting cards" in the Kremlin treasury.

On display are gifts of eleven countries. Among them are artworks by famous West-European silversmiths, horse harness, precious fabrics, ceremonial weapons, exotic Eastern  items as well as carved crosses and staffs, accepted from the representatives of the Christian East.

General partner of the project is "LUKOIL" joint-stock company with support by Highland Gold Mining Ltd.

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December, 8 - January, 19, 2006

Exhibition in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber is dedicated to the 85th Anniversary of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. On display are about 120 memorial exhibits, i.e. documents, weapons, orders of the Foreign Intelligence Service. It is not customary to talk about success of the Foreign Intelligence Service as its activity is possible only under secret circumstances. However, in the course of time there appears an opportunity to tell about some facts in history of the Foreign Intelligence Service and people, who had made an eminent contribution to security and safety of our Motherland.

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November, 3 - December, 23, 2005

Мoscow Kremlin Museums participate in large international exhibition in Japan, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to Napoleon, one of the most eminent persons in world history and the art of his time, which influenced the culture of many countries of the world.

See our special report of the exhibition in the Press-service section.

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November, 9, 2005 - January, 31, 2006

Мoscow Kremlin Museums participate in large international exhibition in Poland, Royal Palace of Warsaw. The exhibition is dedicated to the Order of the White Eagle. The order was founded in the Kingdom of Poland in 1705 and eliminated after the third partition of Poland in1797.  Later on, it was revived by Alexander I in 1815 to reward to citizens of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1831, it was included to Russian Order System by Emperor Nicholas I.

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Autumn 2005

Мoscow Kremlin Museums participate in two exhibitions running in Brussels in the frames of the 20th Europalia International festival. This year the Festival presents to the Belgian audience Russian history and culture under the motto "Visit Russia in the heart of Europe!"

On October, 10, in Palais des Beaux-Arts opens exhibition "Russia. From tsar to emperor", and on October, 18, in Espace culturel ING exhibition "Faberge. The Romanovs' jeweler" presents precious artworks by the famous Russian maker.

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October, 1 - December, 25, 2005

Seven rare exhibits from Moscow Kremlin Museums are on display in the Kirillo-Belozersk Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve, dedicated to the 400th Anniversary of Patriarch Nikon, one of the most eminent historical persons of the XVIIth century.

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September, 29, 2005 - January, 22, 2006

Exhibition "The Wise Two" opens the new exhibition hall of Moscow Kremlin Museums in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, unique architectural monument of the XVIIth century, that has been restored.  The exhibition is dated to the 400th Anniversary of Patriarch Nikon and 360th Anniversary of inauguration of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. About 160 artworks of the XVIIth century, i.e. symbols of royal power, monuments of state and palatial ceremonials, church rarities - allow to get the idea of relations of these most eminent persons in the XVIIth century Russian history.

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October, 15, 2005 - January, 15, 2006

More than 150 exhibits of Moscow Kremlin Museums are on display in  the Samara Regional Museum of Art. the exhibition presents basic monuments from the Armoury collection, including collection of jewellery art, fabrics, armours and weapons, horse harness, best artworks of Kremlin art workshops.

 

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September, 20 - November, 14, 2005

Moscow Kremlin Museums participate in the exhibition of the State History Museum "Prince and Hegumen. The Kulikovo Battle, Dmitry Donskoi and Saint Sergiy Radonezhsky". The display is dated to the 625th Anniversary of the Kulikovo Battle, one of the greatest medieval battles, that settled the further destiny of the Russian State.

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September, 16, 2005 - January, 12, 2006

Moscow Kremlin Museums participate in the large international exhibition project "Russia!" in the USA, New York, Guggenheim Museum. On display are masterpieces of Russian art from the XIIIth century to our days, as well as collections of Russian Tsars, matrons of art and manufacturers.

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September, 12, 2005 - January, 15, 2006

Exhibition in the United States of America, Las Vegas, Guggenheim Hermitage Museum " The Majesty of the Tsars. Treasures from the Moscow Kremlin", displays about 200 masterpieces from the collection of Moscow Kremlin Museums. The exhibition project is aimed to give an idea of the image of a Russian Tsar and acquaint visitors with the main stages of his life, from his birth to the inauguration as a Tsar of "the whole Rus". Monuments of art and culture, displayed at the exhibition,  represent the peculiarity of everyday court life in medieval Russia and its court rituals, participated by the ruler of the country.

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September, 8, 2005 - November, 20, 2005

Exhibition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin continues the long-term programme "Royal and imperial treasuries in the Kremlin", dated to the 200th Anniversary of Moscow Kremlin Museums.
First time in Russia, the new Kremlin exhibition presents over thirty unique artworks from Cabinets of Arts and Wonders in the Ambras Castle near Innsbruck and in Vienna - rarities of famous collections of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529–1595) and Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612). Among the most valuable exhibits of the mid  XVth - late XVIIth century are artworks of applied art, i.e. clocks, vessels, crafty mechanisms, furniture, weapons and paintings.

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May, 27, 2005 - October, 2, 2005

Moscow Kremlin Museums participate the exhibition "Alexander I. "The Sphinx, who remained an enigma to the grave...", running in the State Hermitage. Exhibition in the Neva enfilade of state rooms in the Winter Palace accounts over a thousand exhibits, related to Emperor Alexander I's  life and  activities.  A lot of exhibits - archive documents,  portraits, memorials - are on display for the first time.

 

 

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April, 26 - June, 26, 2005

On April, 26, 2005, in the Brazil Art Museums of the Armando Alvares Penteado Fund, Sao Paulo, Brazil,  there was opened display “Royal heritage in the Moscow Kremlin Museums’ collection".  On display are more than 200 masterpieces from the treasure-house of the Moscow Kremlin. The display is aimed to give the idea of the main collections of the Museum and acquaint  visitors with the Russian history of the Romanovs’ period at the example of unique items.

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April, 23 - August, 10, 2005

Exhibition of latest acquisitions in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin presents most interesting and valuable artworks purchased by the museum in the last ten years. Among them are unique items, executed in Byzantium in the IV-Vth centuries, female decorations of the XIIth century, archeological finds, works by the illustrious faberge Firm, Old-Russian icons, weapons, ceremonial dress and many others.

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February, 14 - April, 17, 2005

Exhibition in the Kirov Regional Art Museum presents 100 rare monuments from the collection of Museum-Preserve “The Moscow Kremlin”. The museum items are dedicated to royal and imperial hunting. Many of them are on display for the first time. The exhibition tells about various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette.

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December, 21, 2004 - February, 6, 2005

More than 150 exhibits from the collection of Moscow Kremlin Museums are on display running in the two largest exhibition halls of the Kazakhstan Republic: the President Culture Center and the State Arts .

The display presents main items of the Armoury Collection, jewellery collections, collections of textiles, weapons and arms, horse harness, best artworks of Kremlin art workshops. The exhibition ends up theYear of Russia in Kazakhstan project.

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December, 9, 2004 - April, 3, 2005

Moscow Kremlin Museums participate in the exhibition dedicated to the history of Russian orders. It runs in the Alexander Hall of the State Hermitage and presents about 200 monuments of culture and art. Among them are hand-written books and printed statutes of orders, order signs and suits, accessories of officials, stamps, rescripts and manifests about welcoming of awards, documents from the Orders’ Capitulum’s Fund, portraits of the Capitulum’s Cancellers.
Moscow Kremlin Museums have brought more than 60 exhibits.

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December, 8, 2004 – January, 23, 2005

Moscow Kremlin Museums take part in the jubilee exhibition dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the Vladimir and Suzdal Museum-Preserve. More than 130 artworks from the best Russian  museums acquaint visitors with the ancient culture of the Vladimir and Suzdal lands. Among the display items are rare icons, numerous jewelry artworks, crosses, the "golden gate" of the Suzdal Nativity Cathedral, portraits and one of the biggest Russian hand-written books on parchment -"Apostle" of 1220. Moscow Kremlin Museums present 29 rarest monuments of art.

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December, 17, 2004 - March, 1, 2005

Exhibition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin is devoted to the history of cultural relations of the Moscow state with Italian lands in the XVth-XVIIth centuries. More than 170 exhibits represent the early period of diplomatic, trade and cultural contacts of the Moscow state with Rome, Venice, Milan, Florence: from the 1472 arrival from Rome to Moscow of the last Byzantine Princess Sophia Paleologos to completing the Agreement of 1697 between the Venetian Republic and Russia against Turkey.

The display is based on the unique collection of precious fabrics from the Armoury Funds. It is supplemented with rare portraits, letters, engravings, architectural details, utensils from the collection of Kremlin Museums and other famous museums and archives of Russia.

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November, 2, 2004 - January, 31, 2005

Exhibition in the Perm Art gallery presents 100 rare monuments from the collection of Museum-Preserve “The Moscow Kremlin”. The museum items are dedicated to royal and imperial hunting. Many of them are on display for the first time. The exhibition tells about various types of hunting, its role in the court life as a part of political and diplomatic etiquette.

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October,1, 2004 - January, 9,2005

The exhibition is dedicated to the interaction of art and culture between Russia and Italy through the centuries. In Rome, at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Capitoline, on display are about 200 masterpieces from museums and collections of Russia and Italy, including the State Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Moscow Kremlin Museums.

The exhibition has been organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, President of Italy Mr. C.A.Ciampi and Prime Minister Mr. Berlusconi.

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September, 15 - November, 12, 2004

Exhibition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin for the first time presents in Russia 23 masterpieces from the famous collection of carved vessels of Louis XIV. Among them there are monuments of stone-carving of the epoch of antiquity and the Middle Ages, Byzantium of the X-XIth centuries and Moslem Orient of the XIIIth century as well as artworks by makers of the XVth-XVIIth centuries of famous Paris, Venice, Milan and Florence ateliers. 
Unique artworks, rarely leaving France, are presented to the Russian public thanks to the joint initiative of the Louvre Museum and Moscow Kremlin Museums
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December, 24, 2003 – May, 15, 2004

The exhibition in the State History Museum is dedicated to the earliest period of portraits’ life in Russia. On display are 100 unique monuments of exceptional historical and cultural value, collected from fourteen Russian and foreign museums and archives.
Moscow Kremlin Museums presented two exhibits – icon of Saviour on the Throne with Metropolitan Kiprian and parsuna of Alexis Mikhailovich riding a horse.

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March, 23 – July, 4, 2004

In the Metropolitan Museum, New York, runs exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), presenting over than 350 artworks of Byzantine art from 30 countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Italy, Rumania, Russia and Turkey. Practically all the exhibits – fabrics, icons, fragments of frescos and sarcophaguses, miniatures, jewelry items, liturgical objects – are both historically and artistically valuable and Orthodox holies. The display is dedicated to the art of the Byzantine Empire in the last years of its existence and to the art of countries successors to the great culture. Moscow Kremlin Museums have brought to New York 3 masterpieces from the collection.
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JUNE, 26 – SEPTEMBER, 13, 2004

At Martin-Gropius-Blau exhibition hall, Berlin, runs bright display, dedicated to the Moscow Kremlin. Its idea has been developed through collaboration of Russian and German specialists. 300 unique exhibits from Moscow Kremlin Museums’ collection open up the main points of its history and show the Kremlin a historical and cultural phenomenon and center of spiritual and secular power. The exhibition is accompanied by 15 minutes’ virtual program, devoted to the Kremlin’s architectural evolution.
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May, 22 - July,25, 2004

Exhibition in the Patriarch’s Palace of the Moscow Kremlin presents the best part of the illustrious collection of K. Faberge Firm’s masterpieces which have been collected by American Publisher Malcolm Forbes for several decades. The display includes 15 unique Easter Surprise Eggs. Nine of them are gifts from Emperors Alexander III and Nicholas II to their wives. Among the exhibits there are miniature pendant eggs, gorgeous portrait frames and table clocks, valuable historical monuments connected to the last 1896 Coronation. The masterpieces have been returned to Motherland thanks to Viktor Vekselberg, Russian businessman, who have purchased the collection from the heirs of M. Forbes.
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June, 9 – August, 15, 2004

Exhibition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin gives the idea of history of system of rewards in Russia. About 250 exhibits of the 17th-21st centuries from the funds of Moscow Kremlin Museums, other museums and archives demonstrate its establishment and development from the moment it appeared till our days.
On display are various rewarding marks, order vestments, attributes of orders’ officials, rewarding weapons of the Russian Empire.
Order system of the Soviet Russia, the USSR as well as modern rewards from the collection of Moscow Kremlin Museums and Administration of the President of Russia on staffing and state rewards are well presented. The latter give evidence to the process of return of historical symbols of Russia.
The exhibition and catalogue’s edition have been supported by AB Gasprombank Joint Stock Company .

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December, 17, 2003-March, 10, 2004

Exhibition in the Assumption Belfry presents more than 150 artworks and rare historical monuments connected to the early stage of Russian-British relations - from their establishment in the middle of the XVIth century to the era of reforms under Peter the Great. Moscow Kremlin Museums present two unique collections: the collection of English silver and the collection of weapons. They are supplemented with paintings, glyptic, numismatics, atlases and other items from museums and archives of Russia and the Great Britain.
The exhibition and the publishing project have been supported by the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow, the AKB “National Reserve Bank” and the Public Joint Stock Company “Lukoil”.

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September, 18 – December, 1, 2003

The exhibition runs in the State Vladimir and Suzdal Museum-Preserve of History, Architecture and Art. About 150 exhibits from the Armoury Funds give to Vladimir citizens a bright opportunity to see the character and value of the famous treasure-house’s collections.
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April, 6 – May, 16, 2004

The exhibition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin presents new works by the most known Russian armourers. It is the fifth display of modern art weapons in the ancient museum. More than 150 artworks by 80 leading armourers of Russia and Belarus, collected in one exhibition area, represent all art directions in modern author's cold steel. Each author demonstrates two his best works created in 2002 - 2003. According to the tradition, two masters have the right to display personal mini-exhibitions. This time a retrospective of work is presented by Alexander Georgiyev and Michael Zherjadin.

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