About museum

The Arkhangelskoye estate became famous as the 'Moscow Versailles' thanks to its neoclassical palace-and-park ensemble and its extremely rich art collections. It belonged to the Golitsyn princes from the late 17th century, and from 1810 until 1917 it was owned by Prince N. B. Yusupov and his descendants. The estate's construction was carried out by the architects Gern, Trombaro, Petondi, Gonzaga, Bové and Klein. The painting collection includes works by A. van Dyck, D. B. Tiepolo, F. Boucher, J. Robert and other Western European artists of the 17th–19th centuries. In addition, the decorative and applied arts collection contains artistic bronze, clocks, furniture, products of the Yusupov porcelain factory and other European manufactories of the 18th–19th centuries. The holdings also include a collection of rare sculptures from the 7th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Particularly important and revered is the rare books collection, which consists of more than 16 thousand volumes of Russian and Western European editions of the 16th–19th centuries.

Museum features

Дата основания

May 1, 1919

Посетители

493200

Единиц хранения

40670

Бюджетный статус

Federal

Классификация организации

non-profit institution

Предметы музея

Painting collection (458 items) — works by the leading Western European masters of the 17th–first half of the 19th centuries — P. Potter, F. Wouwerman, J. Both, A. van Dyck, K. Breydel, J.B. Tiepolo, J. Amigoni, P. Batoni, Trevisani, F. Boucher, J. Robert, C.-J. Vernet, Ch.-A. Van Loo, J. Tassael, N. de Courteille, G.F. Doyen, A.Ch. Caraffa, C. Robertson, J. Dow, J.F. Hackert, F.K. Winterhalter. Among works by Russian painters are pieces by A. Orlovsky, F. Alekseev, serf artists F. Sotnikov, M. Poltev, G. Novikov, I. Kolesnikov, P. Shestakov. Graphic collection (2,931 items) — architectural graphics: sheets executed by Western European masters working in Russia and by Russian architects of the 18th–19th centuries — S. Gern, D. Trombaro, E.D. Tyurin, S.P. Melnikov, D. Quarenghi, P. Gonzaga and others. Collection of decorative and applied arts (4,630 items) is diverse in composition and purpose: furniture and carriages, lighting fixtures and clocks, porcelain and pewter tableware, decorative table ornaments and fireplace utensils, antique cannons and elegant toilet accessories, tapestries, carpets, a collection of upholstery fabrics, examples of noble and folk costume. The largest collection is ceramics (from the 4th century BC (ancient Greek lekanis) to the 20th century (porcelain of Russian and European manufactories of the 18th–19th centuries — products of Meissen, Sèvres, private Paris factories, the Berlin Porcelain Manufactory, as well as porcelain of the St. Petersburg factory, the factories of F. Gardner, Popov and others)). The museum also preserves porcelain items from China and Japan of the 17th–19th centuries. A special place is given to the unique collection of items from the Arkhangelskoye porcelain establishment of Prince N. B. Yusupov (1818–1838). The museum's book collection (16,555 items). The collection includes 60 manuscript books of the 17th–early 19th centuries. The manuscript holdings are mainly fragments of the family archives of the Golitsyn and Yusupov princes. A special place is occupied by the 'Guest Book' started in 1884, which opens with an entry made by the grand ducal couple — Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova. It also contains an autograph of Emperor Nicholas II. Representatives of the most prominent Russian families — Sheremetev, Golitsyn, Shcherbatov, Obolensky, Gagarin, Vorontsov, Tolstoy — left entries with their impressions of Arkhangelskoye.

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