Exhibitions in Russia

November, 17, 2011 - December, 18, 2011

Commemorative medal in honour of the 250th Anniversary of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Russia, Moscow, 2005The 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

Dirk. Russia, Olonets, 1718The 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

Barmy (regalia collar). Russia, Ryazan, the late XIIth - early XIIIth centuryThe 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

Powder-flask. Russia, Moscow, the XVIIth centuryAt 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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September, 29, 2011 - January, 22, 2012

Dish with the coat of arms of Tsaryovokokshaysk. Kazan, 1798The 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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December, 21, 2010 - February, 13, 2011

Bracelet. Russia, 1830sThe 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, 10, 2010 - March, 27, 2011

Medal commemorating the coronation of Elizabeth Petrovna in 1742. Russia, the XIXth centuryThe 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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November, 30, 2009 - February, 07, 2010

Figurine of an officer. Germany, Nuremberg, mid XIXth century
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, 05, 2009 - January, 11, 2010

Bugle. Russia, mid XVIIth century
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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October, 1, 2009 - January, 17, 2010

Fraulein`s monogram of Elizaveta Alekseevna and Maria Fyodorovna. Russia, 1801-1825
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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