History and culture: The exhibition dedicated to the peculiarities of the culture of the Moscow Manor is opened in the “Lublino” Estate

July 12, 2017 in the Moscow State United Museum-Reserve, in the interiors of the third floor of the N. A. Durasov palace in the estate of Lublino, is opening an exhibition "At the fireside. Evening in the Manor". This is the sixth exhibition within the framework of the multi-year retrospective exhibition project, dedicated to various aspects and peculiarities of the culture of the Moscow estate of the era of its "golden age" - the last quarter of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century.

More than 300 items presented at the exhibition for the first time allow to carefully studying such a specific topic, especially important for Russia with its long and cold winters, as the culture of design of heating devices and its organic existence in the aesthetics of a bygone era. Kamelyok is a specifically Russian name for a fireplace, stove, or any kind of hearth in a noble house or peasant dwelling. In the noble families near the fireplace, they made music, read aloud, talked, discussed new literary works, wrote letters, filled out pages of albums and diaries. 

The authors of the exhibition tried to recreate the interiors of the manor rooms, varying from time to time, style and subject matter, starting from the small cabinet of rarities typical for the culture of the middle of the XVIII century, and ending with the second rococo style of the middle of the XIX century from Alexander II's memorial office in the Ostankino Palace.

The history of the fireplace is revealed in the designs and sketches of the West European architects of the Baroque, Rococo, Classicism and Empire. The exhibition presents the designs of fireplaces from albums, uvrazh and graphical collection of Sheremetev Counts in Ostankino Manor, as well as books devoted to the theory and practice of fireplace and stove heating from the library of Prince Yusupov from the funds of the State Museum-Estate "Arkhangelskoye".

The exhibition for the first time provides an opportunity to display the collection of chimney bronze of the second half of the XVIII-first half of the XIX century and other items of Russian and Western European decorative and applied art for decoration of fireplaces from manor collections.