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
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Printing drawing 18-19th centuries (p.2)
Portrait engraving
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11 portrait engravings published by the well-known collector of 2nd half of 18th century prince Alexander Mihajlovich Beloselsky-Belozersky are stored in a museum. This works have been present by him in 1790 or in the beginning of 1791 to Platon (Levshin), the Moscow metropolitan and sacred-archimandrite of the Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. These sheets reflect features of a method of the historical engraved portrait in which basis the sample lays, as a rule, picturesque or tiny. Portraits of historical figures engraved from earlier originals. The various pictures stored in the European museums quite often undertook a basis.
Old engraving boards are used in sheets with images Nestor, prince Yaroslav Mudry (Wise), Anna Jaroslavna, daughter Yaroslav Mudry, princess Olga, and the composition «Betrothal of tsar Alexey Mihajlovich with Natalia Kirillovna». At the heart of Aniki Stroganov's portrait lays the picture of J.B.Piazzsetta «Young standard-bearer¬» 1720-1725, being in the Dresden picture gallery and engraved in masterful L.Zukki. The inscription on a banner - «Siberia 1578» brought in the original board, the person "is made old" by overengraving a beard and moustaches.
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9. Unknown engraver, a reengraving of engraving of H. Romstedt. Portrait of Anna Jaroslavna, queens of France. The end of 18th. Paper, cutter.
10. Unknown engraver, a reengraving of engraving of V.Follino. Portrait of annalist Nestor. 1780th. Paper, cutter.
11. Unknown engraver, a reengraving of engraving of A.Zukki. Portrait ofAnika Stroganov 1780th. Paper, cutter.
12. Unknown engraver, a reengraving of engraving of A.Zukki. Betrothal of tsar Alexey Mihajlovich and tsarina Natalia Kirillovny. 1780th. Paper, cutter.
Portraits of Kiev princess Olga, prince Yaroslav Mudry (Wise) and his daughter Anna had been executed by the method of a repeated reengraving of old boards, though names of German engravers are specified in them. In Yaroslav Mudry's portrait, evident full compilation compositions, subjects of an interior and the represented person. It is possible, that H.F.Sprink reengraved a board while unknown royal portrait of earlier time.
Picturesque portraits, on which prince A.J.Hilkov represented in a long wig with ringlets going down on a back and shoulders, with a lacy kerchief-jabot, in a cloak was as samples for engraving of the "Portrait of prince A.J.Hilkov». In the engraved portrait, there is more dynamics thanks to sharper turn of a torso and a head. The portrait of prince J.F.Dolgorukov - without a name of the master is author's.
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13. H. F. Sprink. Portrait of Grand duke Yaroslav Mudry. Paper, cutter.
14. Unknown engraver, a reengraving of an engraving of A.Hakkenauer. Portrait of great Kiev princess Olga. 1780-1790th. Paper, cutter.
15. J. -M. (?) Bernigerot. Portrait of prince A.J.Hilkov. First half 18th century (?). Paper, cutter.
16. Unknown engraver. Portrait of prince J.F.Dolgoruky. End of 18th century. Paper, cutter.
Portraits Peter I, M.V.Lomonosov, patriarch Philaret Nikitich Romanov, and a portrait of the owner of this small collection of Moscow metropolitan Platon Levshin follows to carry to author's engravings so. At the heart of these original images lie traditional methods of creation of a historical portrait.
The portrait of Peter I with dedication to Grand duke Alexander Pavlovich "A.K.Beloselsky" - one the best works of Johann Friedrich Moritz Schreyer. Two samples served as a basis for the portrait of M. V. Lomonosov. The scheme of a portrait of the French poet J.-B. Rousseau, engraved by J. Dolet, under Joseph Aved's original has been use in the composition of the scientist sitting at a table.
The portrait of patriarch Philaret Romanov was engrave on request of the prince Beloselsky-Belozersky by J.G. Zeifert (1761-1824), which in 1780th worked in Dresden.
It is included in this series of historical portraits and the lifetime portrait of metropolitan Platon solved as a portrait-allegory in which the medallion with the image surrounded by allegorical figures. It is executed, possibly, two masters – both Turin’s engraver L.Valperg and the Dresden’s engraver H.F.Ulemann usually creating allegories.
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17. J.F.M. Schreyer. Portrait of Peter I.1790 th. Paper, cutter.
18. J.F.M. Schreyer. Portrait of M.V.Lomonosov.1790. Paper, cutter.
19. I.G.Zeifert. Portrait of Patriarch Philaret Romanov. 1790th. Paper, cutter.
20. L.Volperg and H.F.Ulemann. Portrait of the Metropolitan Moscow and sacred-archimandrite of the Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra Platon Levshin. Between 1787 and 1791. Paper, cutter.
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