PETER THE GREAT – SiberianFalcon

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Exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry and Exhibition hall of the Patriarch’s Palace:

The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum.

Organised by The Moscow Kremlin Museums.

The epoch of Peter the Great is usually associated in collective consciousness with colossal reforms in the administrative sphere, birth of the regular army and navy, victories in the Great Northern War and transformation of the Russian society lifestyle.

PETER THE GREAT – collector, scholar, artist.

The Northern War (1700-1721) – the war between Sweden and the Northern Union (Russia, Saxony, Poland, Denmark) for hegemony in the Baltic-area.

Peter the Great is much less known as the patron of arts and science and the founder of the first national public museum. His activities gave the country both brand new perception of the world and its place there.

The Kremlin hill became the main sightseeing of Moscow.

Collections of Peter the Great, both scientific and artistic, revealed new horizons for the Russian society, changed attitude towards current context, stimulated the interest of discoverers, statesmen, philanthropists as well as beauty connoisseurs.

It is the international exhibition project – the museums of Germany, Holland and the UK give on loan unique pieces from their collections.

The Moscow Kremlin is considered to be a symbol of the Russian statehood.

The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site incorporates the Armoury Chamber and the architectural ensemble of the Cathedral Square, consisting of the Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation cathedrals, the Church of Laying Our Lady’s Holy Robe, the Patriarch’s Palace with the Twelve Apostles’ Church and the ‘Ivan the Great’ Bell Tower complex, as well as the exhibition halls in the Assumption Belfry and in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace.

The history of organizing and developing the museum institution in the Moscow Kremlin covers almost three hundred years and involves periods of prosperity and rapid development of museum and research activities, periods of heroic struggle for saving national treasure as well as periods of stagnation, followed by revival.

Apart from that many Russian museums, archives and libraries are actively involved in this project.

The aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate the significance and the revolutionary character of Peter the Great’s reforms concerning patronage of arts and science.

Catalog: PETER THE GREAT. Collector, scholar, Artist.

The architectural ensemble “The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square” is included into the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

The display includes about 200 pieces, viz memorial objects, unique archival documents, regalia, magnificent samples of ceremonial arms and armour, outstanding works of jewellery, paintings, sculptures, glyptics, medals and coins, scientific instruments that belonged to Peter the Great, objects from his ‘Chinese’ and ‘Siberia’ collections, as well as rare books and drawings with the records of historical, art and science collections of Peter the Great, which laid the foundation for the first public museum in Russia—Kunstkamera.