Moscow Arts and Crafts
| Moscow has always been one of the biggest centers of artisanship in Russia and is still keeping up its old traditions. Popular Arts and Crafts centers like Palekh, Mst?ora, Fedosk?no, Khokhloma and Zhostovo are known all over the world. We will never stop admiring the clever work by ancient masters: What they did are real artistic examples of work, inspired by talent, elegance and fine style. |
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| Decorative and Folk Arts Museum |
| This museum is housed in what was originally a 16th-century estate. More than 40,000 objects of wood, metal, glass and clay from the 14th century to the present are on display, all folk and applied arts of the peoples of Russia. They include crafts made of wood and metal, as well as lacquered miniatures. |
| Russian Toys Museum in Serguiev Possad |
| Located in the Moscow countryside, about 70 km. from the capital, near the world-renowned Monastery of the Holy Trinity, founded in the mid-14th century by Serguis of Radonej. The Museum exhibition is dedicated to the Folk Toys produced in different regions of Russia. You will have a chance to get acquainted with the famous matryoshkas, clay miniatures from Viatka, like tin whistles, female or animal statuettes and wooden dolls from Gorodetz. |
| The Tretyakov Gallery |
| A major museum housing a collection of Russian art that traces the development of Russian culture from the 11th through the 20th centuries: Russian icons and Byzantine mosaics, canvases by portraitists of the 18th-19th centuries, landscapes and historical canvases of the m?d 19th-early 20th centuries, sculptures, drawings, painting and graphics from the early 20th century, displayed in 60 rooms covering about 9,000 square m. and enhanced with skylight. After being renovated in 1995, Tretyakov Gallery is the most exhilarating museum in Moscow. There are about 47,000 Russian works by world-renowned Russian masters like Nikit?n, Rokotov, Kiprensky, Brullov, Ivanov, Vrubel, Levitan and others. |
