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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

    Painting of the 18th – 19th century (p.2)

        Portraits of members of imperial family continue so to appear in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in the 19th century. Quite often, they are professionally executed copies of Russian artists from originals of foreign painters. Among them, it is possible to note two small portraits with images of emperors: Alexander I (Ill. 13) in style of the French painter Gerard, and Nicolay I, in style of German artist Kruger. In the beginning of the 19th century has painted the double portrait of Emperor Alexander I with Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, that allegorically reflecting event of war 1812. This picture carries the conditional name "World of Europe" (Ill. 14). Possibly, these images were prompted by S. Cardelli’s and A.Afanasev's engravings –"Alexander I releases France and restores the peace in Europe" or "The Peace of Europe". The allegory has solved in the portrait form of a couple of Russian emperor and empress with olive branch in hands. Near to the image is the comments inscription.

        On boundary of 18-19th centuries, the increasing value gets a chamber portrait. They quite often decorated interiors of manors of noble family and merchant houses. It is possible to carry two portraits to their number: the unknown person in a cap and a kerchief and the unknown person with St. Vladimir's award and St. Anna's cross, stylistic concerning to end the 18th century (Ill. 15,16).They have arrived in a museum, most likely, in an operating time of the commission on monastery protection, and their origin, probably, has connected with inspection of surrounding manors.
    Anonim. The portrait of emperor Alexander I Pavlovich. 2th third of the 19th century. Canvas, oil
    Ill. 13    		 Anonim. Workshop of Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. World of Europe (double portrait of Emperor Alexander I with Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna). 1th third of the 19th century. Canvas, oil
    Ill. 14    		 Unnamed painter 1st half of 18th century. The portrait of the unknown person. The end of the 18th century. C.o.
    Ill. 15    		 Unnamed painter 2st half of 18th century. The portrait of the unknown person witn order. The end of the 18th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 16
        The man's portrait, written in a little romantic spirit, belongs to the brush of Carl Lasch, popular German artist in Russia in the middle of the 19th century (Ill. 17).For a portrait are characteristic professionalism of the painting, reliability of the image, ability to like the customer that is peculiar Carl Lasch's to manner. Some portraits of the 19th century are connecting with names of little-known or unknown artists. Interesting work is the portrait of the unknown person in a white cap (Ill. 18). It is dated of 1830-s, when dresses with wide sleeves-gigot and air kerchiefs were fashionable. The portrait involves with harmony of a light image of the pretty woman and elegant coloristic decisions of all details of clothes.

        TThe level of separate works allows carrying them to group so-called "the second culture", that is the raznochinetz’s city culture or rural environment. Nonprofessional painters, whose art answered tastes of growing merchants, usually carried out these portraits. In our collection images of the Sergievsky postmaster and his wife concern group of a city "household" or so-called "primitive" portrait portrait (Ill. 19,20).The name of portraits is conditionally and given because in a hand the man holds the letter.
    Carl Lasch (1822-1888). The portrait of the unknown person in black.(Arnoldi L.I. - ?). 1849. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 17    		 Anonim. The portrait of the unknown person. 30th years of the 19th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 18    		 Anonim. The portrait of the Sergievsky postmaster (?). The beginning of the 19th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 19    		 Anonim. The portrait of the wife of the Sergievsky postmaster (?). The beginning of the 19th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 20
        The following group of pictures unites picturesque works, in which basis of plots are put historical events. The historical genre was the main thing in hierarchy of genres of Academy of Arts. In its best samples, artists have expressed ideals of time, having filled compositions the heroic, romantic and melodramatic maintenance. In museum collection two cloths illustrate history of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery in the beginning of the 17-th century: the sketch to S.D.Miloradovich's picture (1852-1943) "Defense of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery" 1894 (Ill. 21) and M.I.Scotti's picture (1814-1861) "Dionicius Zobninovsky hands over the patriotic deed » 1851 (Ill. 22)

        The portrait "Nikolay I in Serapion tent of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery» ), written by the Troitsk master, concerns to historical genre. It testifies about visiting of Monastery by the Emperor in 1834. The picture "Scales" or "The State of affairs in Europe», concerning the end of 18th century and belonging, possibly, to brush of known engraver G.I.Skorodumov (Ill. 24), is unusual on their theme. This work transfers a political situation in Europe after Russian-Turkish war in the symbolical form, and is the rare sample of political satire in painting.
    Miloradovich S.D. Defense of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery . The sketch. 1894. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 21    		 Scotti M.I. Dionicius Zobninovsky hands over the patriotic deed. 1851. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 22    		 Anonim. Workshop of Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. Nikolay I in Serapion tent of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery. The 1st third of the 19th century. 1834-35. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 23    		 Skorodumov G.I. The State of affairs in Europe. The end of the 19th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 24

        About twenty works of art make group of the monuments, which basis of a plot is the Christian or secular allegory. The majority of them have executed, apparently, in the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery. The earliest work of art is the picture "Prayer of Gedeon" (Ill. 25), which is dated the middle 18th century and is connected with the order of the archimandrite of monastery Gedeon Krinovsky. The difficult allegory has put in the plot of the picture "Eulogy of affairs of Catherine II" (Ill. 26), created most likely at the very end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century. The allegory eulogizes not only state, educational, but also spiritual affairs of the Empress.

        The picture «The Dream Borovikovsky» (Ill. 27),that belongs to a symbolist-religious theme, has written by V.L.Borovikovskiy in 1824, shortly before death. Last period of the artist made a note of the mystical religious moods, pouring out in forms of visions, which the artist aspired to define and designate by means of his art. The picture "The Phenomenon of the Mother of God to Saint Sergius of Radonezh", created in the middle of the 18th century in a picturesque masterful of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery (Ill. 28).

    Anonim. Workshop of Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. Prayer of Gedeon. The middle of the 18th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 25    		 Unnamed painter of the end of the 18th– begining of the 19th century. Eulogy of affairs of Catherine II. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 26    		 Borovikovskiy V.L. The Dream of Borovikovsky. 1824. cardboard, tree, oil.
    Ill. 27    		 Anonim. Workshop of Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. The Phenomenon of the Mother of God to Saint Sergius Radonezhsky. The middle of the 18th century. Canvas, oil.
    Ill. 28




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