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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.