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The Museum Collections

Introduction
I. History and Art Collection
1. Icons of the 14th – 19th centuries
  • icons of the 14th – 17th century
    •  2. Jewelry art of the 14th – 20th century
  • jewelry art of the 14th – 17th century
  • jewelry art of the 18th – 19th century
  • the european silver 14th - 19th centuries
    •  3. Small-size sculptures (works of metal, wood, bone)
    XI – the beginning of the XX century
  • Small-size sculptures 11th – 17th century
  • Small-size sculptures 18th – early 20th century
  • enamel of Troitza masters 15-8th – early 20th century
    • 5.Embroidery, lace, textiles of the 14th - early 20th century
  • icon and ornamental embroidery
  • gold and silver lace
    •  6.Painting of the 18th – 21st centuries
  • painting of the 18th – 19th centuris
  • painting of the 20th – 21st centuris
    •  II.Manuscripts and old printed books of the 14th – 17th century
    IV.Lithography of the 18th – 19th century
    V.Numismatics
    VI.Medals of the 18th - early 20th century
    VIII.Archeology collection

    IX. Russian folk and applied and decorative art of the 17th – 21st c.
    1. Artistic wood
  • folk carved and painted wood
  • wooden toys
  • house carving of Sergiev Posad
  • Khokhloma and Gorodets painting
    •  2. Artistic textiles
  • embroidery and weaving
  • printed textiles and lace
  • Russian shawls
  • folk costumes
  • folk garments
  • printed cotton kerchiefs
    • Rus Eng

    Archaeological collections (p. 3)

        The collection of the late Middle Ages antiquities occurs from excavation Radonezh and other Old Russian settlements. Rests of the Moscow ceramics of that time were found in Radonezh by the excavation. These are pots with an ornament “a slanting wave” on a nimbus (a wavy line which was easily put on a vessel rotating on a potter's wheel), table bowls, jugs. These are toys traditional for the Moscow potters 14-15 centuries : birdies-penny whistles, the horses-rattles covered by white angob. Body the horses were moulded from two hollow cylinders, and the pebble inside was located. Here there are products of smiths from iron: difficult trailing, so-called cylinder locks and keys to them, sickles, knifes, drills, shoe heelplate. Iron shovel was a tip of the wooden ancipitous plough. There are certificates of military events: the arrow tip, the spur with a castor, a fragment of a kernel and a case-shot.


    Bronze crosses. The burial ground Vyshegorod-on-Yahroma. 16th century.
    Bronze crosses. The burial ground Vyshegorod-on-Yahroma. 16th century.    		 Iron shovel and axe. Radonezh. 14th century.
    Iron shovel and axe. Radonezh. 14th century.    		 Funeral vessel-balm. The burial ground Vyshegorod-on-Yahroma. 16th century.
    Funeral vessel-balm. The burial ground Vyshegorod-on-Yahroma. 16th century.


        Archeological excavations and supervision in the Trinity-St.Sergieus Lavra had allowed gather some interesting collections. First, in the Moscow land this is largest collection of white medieval gravestones of 15-17th centuries. Among them, the gravestone of clerk Vasily Beda is most authentically ancient in the territory of Moscow and the Moscow land of 1480. The find of the gravestone with date 1480 (6988 from world creation), which precedes an odious boundary of 7000 - when all orthodox Russia expected a Doomsday, is the important scientific discovery. Secondly, the collection of oven tiles, among which are so-called «red tiles» local monastic manufacture with imperial symbols (images of lions, griffins, unicorns), decorating tsarina's chambers. The collection of tiles is also stored in a museum from imperial travelling palace of Slotino village.


    Oven tile from tsarina's chambers. Trinity-St.Sergius monastery. 17th century.
    Oven tile from tsarina's chambers. Trinity-St.Sergius monastery. 17th century.    		 Oven tile from imperial travelling palace. Slotino village. 17th century.
    Oven tile from imperial travelling palace. Slotino village. 17th century.    		 White gravestone of clerk Vasily Bedy. Trinity-St.Sergius monastery.1480.
    White gravestone of clerk Vasily Bedy. Trinity-St.Sergius monastery.1480.




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