Old Russian Decorative and Applied Art
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Collection history
The Russian Museum holds one of the largest collections of Old Russian decorative arts and sculpture in Russia. Spanning the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, it includes metalwork, embroidery, wood and stone carving, wooden sculpture, liturgical objects, and objects of personal use.
The collection was built from works transferred from the Imperial Academy of Arts and from major private collections. During the twentieth century, it expanded considerably with works from monasteries and church treasuries in the Russian North, Moscow, Novgorod, and Pskov. Particular highlights include works from the pre-Mongol period, Old Russian figural and ornamental embroidery, wooden sculpture, and objects made by Moscow and Novgorod craftsmen between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Media resources
Virtual tour of the exhibition, held in the Russian Museum from 21 February to 13 May 2019.
The film tells us about one of the depositories of the Russian museum which holds Old Russian Art.
Film tells about the prominent Russian dynasty of the Stroganovs. Wealthy family of merchants and art amateur.
This film tells about major icon types of St. Nicholas of Myra - one of the most respectable saints of Russia. You will see the masterpieces of Orthodox Russian Art, wood sculptures, examples of old-Russian embroidering, statuaries.
