Exhibitions in Russia

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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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