Exhibition 'Governor's Drawing Room'

About exhibition

The space resembles a secular drawing room of the Art Nouveau era. Such salons were meeting places for Khabarovsk's intelligentsia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Italian armchairs, small sofas, consoles and antique mirrors are arranged around the perimeter of the hall. The walls are decorated with photographic portraits of fashionably dressed Khabarovsk residents and reproductions of works by Harrison Fisher, the first artist-designer for Cosmopolitan magazine, whose ideals of female beauty became a standard at the end of the 19th century. The display cases feature fashionable accessories: pendants, fans, ladies' handbags, men's watches, tie pins, as well as porcelain tableware from the Kuznetsov factory. The focal point of the hall is a salon grand piano made at the Shreder factory in St. Petersburg (1880s). The instrument is playable; its sound can be heard during tours and events of the Amursky Utes Museum and Cultural Center.