The exhibition devoted to the culture of Ancient Russia presents about
350 works of the 10th - 18th centuries from the
collections of the 19 Russian museums, libraries and archives. The unique
examples of icon-painting, jewelry art, needlework, applied arts, sculpture,
the rare manuscripts, printed books and birch bark letters reveal the creative
role of the Orthodoxy in the history of the Russian State.
For the first time the masterpieces by the Russian masters are presented in the
single expositional space that creates the impressionable, large-scaled and
integrated picture of the Old Russian art from its sources till the epoch of
Peter the Great. Among the most significant exhibits there are presented the
fragment of the Ostromir Gospel that
is the oldest surviving East Slavic Manuscript book, the Krater (chalice,
intended for Eucharist vine) from Novgorod of the XI century, Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God of
the time of Andrei Rublev, the Gospel of 1507, The Venerable Sergius of Radonezh shroud and the unique works of the European
art.
The thematic sections of the exhibitions recreate the solemn and
enlightened image of the Holy Russia and carry to modern viewer the eternal
spiritual values and the ethical ideals of the Russian Orthodoxy culture.
The exhibition is
organized on the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation
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