Exhibition of the Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev

About exhibition

Monuments of Old Russian art are presented across four floors of the exhibition. On the first floor visitors will become acquainted with masterpieces of Old Russian icon painting and examples of decorative and applied arts. The second floor is devoted to the art of 17th-century icon painting and its development in the Modern period. In one of the halls there are also icons and works of decorative and applied art of the 18th century executed in the main European artistic styles: Baroque, Rococo, and early Classicism. In another hall — works of icon painting and applied art of the 19th–early 20th century. Separately on this floor one of the largest iconostasis ensembles of the mid-17th century is exhibited, originating from the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in Suzdal. The wooden sculpture hall occupies the third floor and displays a type of Russian church art that is almost unknown to the general public. The fourth floor is devoted to monumental art. Here are fragments and nearly complete complexes of frescoes from the 12th–18th centuries. The hall also contains a collection of glazed tiles (izraztsy), allowing visitors to trace the development of tile art in Rus'.