The Moscow Kremlin Museums present another grandiose project related to the heirs of Peter the Great and those involved in the palace coups.
Film for the exhibition "Amateur Scholars of Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century"
Music Meetings in the Kremlin
The film immerses the viewer in the environment of the early 19th century when, under the influence of the ideas of Romanticism, a particular, romantic approach to history was formed, while fantasy and reality were inextricably linked in the story of unique artefacts in the Kremlin collection.
Curator of the exhibition "The Kremlin Legends: Russian Romanticism and the Armoury Chamber" describes the ceremony these knights participated.
Legendary image of the royal regalia the belonging to the Kievan Prince Vladimir Monomakh.
How the legend about the ancient origin of the items of gunsmith’ art appeared and when they were actually made.
Curator of the exhibition "The Kremlin Legends: Russian Romanticism and the Armoury Chamber" tells about an unfamiliar item from the collection of the Armoury Chamber.
The exhibition in the state anteroom of the Armoury Chamber is dedicated to one of the most revered Russian saints – Sergius of Radonezh. It is timed to the 600th Anniversary of the saint's relics being uncovered and to the Trinity Cathedral’s construction in the Holy Trinity–St Sergius Monastery.
This exhibition project marks two important anniversaries – the 100th Anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the 150th Anniversary of the brilliant diplomat, the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin.
English subtitles available. The film has been prepared specially for the exhibition "Carl Fabergé and Feodor Rückert. Masterpieces of Russian Enamel".
Petr Alexeevich Romanov was the first Russian Tsar who went on a journey through Europe. What did he see there, what interested him, and what was he wishing to implement in his homeland?
Byzantine (?), 15th century.
The Olonets Arms factory, 1715.
Western Europe, 1797–1798
St. Petersburg (?), 1796.
Western Europe, after 1563 – before 1590 (?).
Icon. Moscow, early 18th century.
Icon. Moscow, the Armoury Chamber, 1715; cover – before 1741.
Moscow, the Armoury Chamber, 1669.
Russia, 1727–1730.
Moscow, the Armoury Chamber, 1660–1670s.
Double-sided icon. Sophia the Divine Wisdom. Moscow (?), first half of the 15th century.
Moscow, the Armoury Chamber (?), last quarter of the 17th century – early 18th century; panel – 12th century (?).
From The Berain Grotesques Series, the 'Muses' set. France, Beauvais Manufactory, before 1710.
Northern Europe (?), late 18th - early 19th century.
Russia (?), before 1910-1915.
Russia, 1723.
Moscow, March-April 1730
Moscow, P. Ovchinnikov Firm, 1908-1917.
Moscow, the Armoury Chamber, 1698
Moscow, the Kremlin Workshops, 1687.
Moscow, the Kremlin Workshops, 1684.
Moscow, Print House, 20th of July 1644.
Presented to Tsar Peter I by King Frederick IV of Denmark in 1716.
This film has been prepared specifically for the exhibition‘Guardians of Time. Conservation at the Moscow Kremlin Museums’.
The inkstand belonged to Empress Catherine II.
This film has been prepared specifically for the exhibition‘Guardians of Time. Conservation at the Moscow Kremlin Museums’.
The Moscow Kremlin is one of the world’s greatest architectural ensembles.
A biographical film about Vasily Konovalenko (1929-1989), a remarkable artist, stone-carver and jeweller. His masterpieces are on display at the Moscow Kremlin Museums until 31 August 2016.