The Moscow Kremlin Museums will present the publications at the International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction “Non/fictio№” that will take place in the Gostiniy Dvor from 4 to 7 April 2024.
The spring fair will feature 78 editions of the Moscow Kremlin Museums that came out in the last three years. A catalogue of the current exhibition “Amateur Scholars of Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century” is among the novelties. This project is dedicated to one of the most interesting collections of the second half of the 18th century that belonged to Pavel Karabanov, collector and connoisseur of Russian history and ancientries. It took him more than 50 years to form the collection: the contemporaries called his domestic museum the second Armoury Chamber.
This richly illustrated edition will also tell about other collectors of that time – Princes Yusupov and Obolensky, Count Musin-Pushkin, historian and publicist Pogodin. The book pays special attention to the history of the Russian museum of Pavel Karabanov which comprised numerous monuments of the Russian olden times. The catalogue of the exhibition entered the top list of the fair.
Catalogues of other exhibitions, monographs, books for family reading, guide books and albums of the Moscow Kremlin Museums are available on the stand В-34. Among the presented editions there are:
- From Epiphany to Pancake Week. Russian Celebratory Traditions from the 17th to the Early 20th Century. (TOP-list of the fair)
Author Yu. N. Uvarova
The edition tells about the rites, entertainments and solemn ceremonies at the court of the Romanov dynasty, dedicated to winter feasts of the Orthodox calendar. Art pieces from the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection and other Russian museums illustrate the book.
Authors V. R. Novoselov, F. M. Panfilov
The prospectus is dedicated to the combats of the 16th-17th cc – time, when the nobility was forming the ideas of honour and dignity. The readers will dive into the atmosphere of that period, learn about duel code and see the images of original duel weapon, depicted on rare engravings, drawings and paintings.
Contributors А. S. Kovalev, F. M. Panfilov, М. N. Tsybizova
The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition of the same name tells about the period of patriotic upsurge, the increasing interest in national history, and search for the Russian ancientries. At that time, the Armoury Chamber turned from the royal treasury into a national museum. The edition reveals the history of the Kremlin collection, the way it was systematically studied and how its items overgrew with legends, acquired various creative interpretations and scientific attribution at the same time.