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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Tickets to the exhibition
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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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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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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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