Programme
THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND MASS
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
FEDERAL AGENCY ON CULTURE AND CINEMATOGRAPHY
FEDERAL STATE INSTITUTION
«THE STATE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL
MUSEUM-PRESERVE ”THE MOSCOW KREMLIN”»
International jubilee scientific conference
dedicated to the 200-th Anniversary of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Moscow, Kremlin
The State Armoury Chamber, the Patriarch's Palace
March, 13 - March, 15, 2006
13 March, Monday
The Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace
10.00–10.30 Registration of participants
Morning session
CEREMONIAL OPENING
10.30-11.00
Elena GAGARINA
Cand. Sci. (Art History)
General Director
of Moscow Kremlin Museums
Speech of welcome
Alexander SHKURKO
Cand. Sci. (History)
Director of the State History Museum
Speech of welcome
Lyubava MOREVA
Programme specialist on culture
UNESCO Bureau in Moscow
Speech of welcome
Sigurd SHMIDT
Academician of the Russian Academy of Education
Adviser, Russian Academy of Sciences
Plenary report
Foundation of the Armoury museum in the context of development of social consciousness and culture in the early 19th century
SECTION I
Moscow Kremlin Museums – main stages of history
The Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace
11.00-12.00
Chair – Alexei Levykin
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| Alexei LEVYKIN Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
The Armoury Chamber as the first national museum of Russian History and Culture |
| Marina PAVLOVICH Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
The Armoury Chamber in the last third of the 18th century |
| Alla PETUKHOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Peter Valuev and reorganization of the Armoury Chamber in the first decade of the 19th century |
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12.00–12.30 – Coffee break
Afternoon session
Chair – Alexei Levykin
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| Marina SIDOROVA The State Archive of the Russian Federation |
«Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland» in the Armoury exposition |
| Ekaterina SCHERBINA Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Temporary transmissions of Armoury exhibits (second part of the 19th – early 20th century). Development of organization rules and documentation |
| Tatiana TUTOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
New concept of the «Armoury museum», worked out by Dmitry Ivanov in 1922 |
| Tatiana PERSHINA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Museum activity of Nikolai Pomerantsev in 1920–1931 |
| Irina SOKOLOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Nikolai Pomerantsev and formation of church wooden plastic figures collection in the Kremlin Museums |
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14.00–15.00 – Coffee break
Evening session
Chair – Irina Vorotnikova
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| Viktor ROSLAVSKIY Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Organization of restoration works in the Moscow Kremlin in 1918 |
| Irina KACHALOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Opening of murals in Kremlin cathedrals |
| Tatiana TOLSTAYA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
The Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. History of restoration of the monument in 1970–1980s |
| Olga SOSNINA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Museum of gifts of the USSR in the Kremlin |
| Natalia SINITSYNA Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Results of the activities of the «Historical Necropolis» group for restoration and research |
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17.00 – Concert for the conference participants
SECTION IIGerman silver in museum collections of the world.
Questions of research
Conference-hall of the Armoury Chamber
Evening session
Chair - Angella Kudryavtseva
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| Norbert ANGERMANN Professor, Doctor University of Hamburg |
Hamburg and Moscow in the 17th century: relations in silversmithery |
| Birgite SCHUEBEL Doctor National Museum of Germany, Nuremberg |
Sculpture in the goldsmithery of Nuremberg. Comments on the figure “Mother Earth” of the Merkelsche table decoration made by Wenzel Jamnitzer |
| Karin TEBBE Doctor National Museum of Germany, Nuremberg |
The running of time. The eternal calendar of Johann Georg Mettel from Nuremberg |
| Ursula TIMANN Doctor National Museum of Germany, Neremberg |
Nuremberg goldsmiths’ works as models for goldsmiths outside Nuremberg. Some examples from the Moscow Kremlin Armoury |
| Angella KUDRYAVTSEVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Collection of Augsburg silver in the Armoury Chamber. Problems of research |
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March, 14, Tuesday
SECTION III
Collections and monuments in the Moscow Kremlin Armoury Chamber
Conference-hall of the Armoury Chamber
Morning session
Chair – Alexei Levykin
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| Vladimir KUCHKIN Doc. Sci. (History) Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
The Great Princes' treasury in testaments of the 14th century |
| Elena MORSHAKOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Sacral treasury of the Moscow governors in the Armoury Chamber |
| Irina BOBROVNITSKAYA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
The most ancient throne in the collection of the Armoury Chamber |
| Marina MARTYNOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Double throne as a unique artwork of silversmithery |
| Natalia BERUCHASHVILI Cand. Sci. (Art History) Tbilisi |
Inauguration crown of the Imeretian Tsars |
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12.00–12.30 – Coffee break
Afternoon session
Chair – Sergey Zverev
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| Olga MELNIKOVA Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Makers of the Stables Office in the 17th century: new names |
| Lyubov KIRILLOVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Kremlin carriage workshops in the 18th century |
| Marina GOLOVANOVA Cand Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Collection of banners in the Armoury Chamber: history of formation and problems of research |
| Inna VISHNEVSKAYA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Imported precious fabrics in the Kremlin Museums’ collection |
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14.00–15.00 – Coffee break
Evening session
Chair – Sergey Zverev
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| Svetlana KOVARSKAYA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Purveyor to the Court – Nikolai Poltavtsev, court manufacturer of church plate |
| Lyudmila GAVRILOVA Doc. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Highest European Orders in the Armoury collection |
| Maria SARYCHEVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Author’s medal plastics of the 20th – early 21st centuries in the Armoury collection |
| Sergei ZVEREV Cand Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Coin treasure troves of the Moscow Kremlin |
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SECTION IV
History of the Moscow Kremlin architecture
The Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace
Morning session
Chair – Andrei Batalov
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| Andrei BATALOV Doc. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Speech of welcome |
| Tatiana PANOVA Doc. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Historical topography of the Moscow Kremlin (mid 12th–first half of the 14th centuries |
| Vladimir SEDOV Doc. Sci. (Art History) Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
One more time about Pskov makers in the Moscow Kremlin |
| Igor BONDARENKO Doctor (Architecture) Russian Academy for Architecture and Building sciences |
Renascent points of the Kremlin reconstruction in the second part of the 15th century to the first third of the 16th century |
| Andrei BATALOV Doc. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Artchitectural programmes of Ivan the Terrible in the Moscow Kremlin |
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12.00–12.30 – Coffee break
Afternoon session
Chair – Andrei Batalov
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| Julia TARABARINA Cand. Sci. (Art History) State Institute of Art History |
Value of the Kremlin buildings of the first Romanovs in the origin of marquee belltowers of the 17th century |
| Alla ARONOVA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Russian State Humanitarian University |
Architecture of a court ceremonial in the Moscow Kremlin of the 17th century |
| Alexander GRASCHENKOV Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Gothic theme in the Kremlin architecture of the 17th–19th centuries |
| Alexei SCHENKOV Doctor (Architecture) Moscow Architecture Institute |
Architectural restoration of the Moscow Kremlin on the edge of the 19th–20th centuries |
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14.00–15.00 – Coffee break
Evening session
Chair – Andrei Batalov
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| Georgy EVDOKIMOV Dmitry YAKOVLEV Central research and restoration production workshops |
The Church of the Nativity on the Anteroom: problems of building history |
| Georgy EVDOKIMOV Central research and restoration production workshops |
The Annunciation Cathedral of 1416 in the light of location research of 2005–2006 |
| Julia ZVEZDINA Cand Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Sculptural motives of the Renaissance in the Kremlin Archangel’s Cathedral and Italian painting (interpretation of semantic structure) |
| Marina GORDEEVA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
The Ascension Nunnery in the 18th–early 19th centuries in the archive documents of Moscow Kremlin Museums |
| Alexei KOLYZIN Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
History of the Paraskeva the Friday Church in the Moscow Kremlin |
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March, 15, Wednesday
SECTION V
Historical weapons in world museums and private collections
Conference-hall of the Armoury Chamber
Morning session
Chair – Alexei Levykin
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| Mikhail GORELIK Cand. Sci. (Art History) Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Islamic Art and weapons of the Chingizid Empire |
| Igor KOMAROV Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Defensive weapons in inventories of the Royal Armoury Treasury of the 17th century |
| Vassiliy NOVOSELOV Cand. Sci. (History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Inventories of weapons, confiscated from Princes Dolgorukov in 1730–1731 |
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12.00–12.30 – Coffee break
Afternoon session
Chair – Vassily Novoselov
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| Elena DROZDOVA Tula State Weapon Museum |
Professional training of administrative clerks of state weapon factories of Russia in the 18th century |
| Vladimir PONSOV State Scientific-Research Institute of Restoration |
Attribution of a Swedish sabre of the first quarter of the 19th century |
| Elena YABLONSKAYA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Weapons of the Emperor Alexander I in the Armoury collection |
| Karina TUMANOVA Saint-Petersburg Institute of Mines |
From the collection of cold steel of the Institute of Mines: foreign campaigns of the Russian Army |
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14.00–15.00 – Coffee break
Evening session
Chair – Igor Komarov
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| Elena PETROVA State Museum-Preserve of Vladimir and Suzdal |
European cold steel in the collection of the State Museum-Preserve of Vladimir and Suzdal: to the history of the collection formation |
| Igor PINK Tula State Weapon Museum |
Revolvers by Galand in Russia in the 1870–1880s |
| Alexei BELINSKIY Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps |
English experimental firearms of the 19th century in the collection of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps |
| Georgiy VVEDENSKIY The State Museum-Preserve «Tsarskoye Selo» |
Officers’ neck decorations |
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SECTION VI
History of Old Russian Art
The Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace
Morning session
Chair – Irina Kachalova
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| Elena OSTASHENKO Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Andrei Rublev in the Kremlin: research of the heritage |
| Engelina SMIRNOVA Doc. Sci. (Art History) State Institute of Art History |
Temples of the Moscow Kremlin as places for preservation of Novgorod valuables |
| Maria PLIUKHANOVA Doctor of Philology University, Peruggia |
Tree of Jesse in the Kremlin Annunciation Cathedral |
| Boris USPENSKIY Doc. Sci. (Philology) Naples East University |
Rite of Procession riding a donkey on Palm Sunday and perception of the Moscow Kremlin as a New Jerusalem |
| Marina RAKITINA Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Ceremonial of declaration of the Heir to the Throne: action and relics |
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12.00–12.30 – Coffee break
Afternoon session
Chair – Irina Sterligova
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| Tatiana SAMOILOVA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
«Legend of Korsun» in murals of the loggia in the Archangel’s Cathedral |
| Victoria MENYAILO Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Two holies of the Volga Region in the Chudov Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin |
| Boris FONKICH Doc. Sci. (History) Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Arseniy Elassonsky and historical monuments of Russo-Greek relations in the Moscow Kremlin in the late 16th–first quarter of the 17th century |
| Lyudmila SCHENNIKOVA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Icons of Our Lady of Vladimir in the Moscow Kremlin in the 14th–20th centuries |
| Irina BUSEVA-DAVYDOVA Doc. Sci. (Art History) Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts |
On several icons of Our Lady of the Moscow Kremlin |
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14.00–15.00 – Coffee break
Evening session
Chair – Irina Sterligova
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| Irina STERLIGOVA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
New data of medieval cameos and embroidered shrouds from the Moscow Kremlin |
| Iota PAPADOPOULOS Athens |
Russian Metalwork in Greek Orthodox Treasuries |
| Anna YAKOVLEVA Cand. Sci. (Art History) Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Synodic of the Assumption Cathedral |
| Anna RYNDINA Doc. Sci. (Art History) Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts |
Setting of the so called «Icon of Thomas Paleologos» and idea of the Passion relics |
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Elena GAGARINA
Cand. Sci. (Art History)
General Director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Alexei LEVYKIN
Cand. Sci. (History)
Science Director of theMoscow Kremlin Museums
Andrei BATALOV
Doc. Sci. (Art History)
Deputy Director on research, protection and restoration
of monuments of architecture of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Irina VOROTNIKOVA
Scientific secretary of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Julia BYKOVA
Researcher of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Tatiana PERSHINA
Junior researcher of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
The conference will run by address:
Moscow, the Kremlin,
Conference-hall of the Armoury Chamber
(entrance via the Borovitsky Gate)
The Chrism Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace
(entrance via the Troitskiye (Trinity) Gate).
Presentation time – 15 minutes,
Discussions are welcome after the end of sessions
Beginning of morning sessions at 10.30,
afternoon sessions at 12.30, evening session at 15.00
