Museums of Russia: Andrey Rublev Museum to present a series of unique exhibition projects in 2023

In 2023, the Central Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art (Moscow) will present several unique exhibition projects demonstrating masterpieces from the collections, results of the museum restoration, as well as unknown monuments from private collections.

Residents of several Russian regions will have an opportunity to see works from the museum’s collections. The mobile exhibition Window to Russia dedicated to Russian religious art of the Peter I’s era will visit Tobolsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk.

In February, the exposition The History of Russian Holiness will open at the Novosibirsk State Art Museum. It allows tracing the centuries-long history of the spiritual feat of ascetics, from the era of Ancient Rus to the Synodal period. Special sections are dedicated to the two most revered Russian saints – Saint Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov.

The exhibition The Passion of Christ will be the first large-scale event within the exhibition year in the museum in Moscow. It will open in January. The State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, church museums, private collectors will provide works of decorative and applied arts, sculptures and book graphics for the exhibition illustrating the diversity of iconography of the last days of Christ’s earthly life. The exhibition Modern in Russian Icons will be dedicated to the stylistic features of icon painting on the eve of the revolution.

The exhibition Holy Wives, which will tell about especially revered and little-know righteous wives, martyrs and venerables in Eastern Christian and Ancient Russian art, about the traditions of their veneration, is planned for autumn.

In the coming year, the museum will continue its educational project in the format of exhibitions of one monument. Small expositions demonstrating individual items from the museum’s holdings and private collections became especially popular due to their free access to the public.

The exhibits of small exhibitions that will be presented to visitors in 2023 include the Old Believer’s manuscript Book about Joseph the Beautiful, Folding Icons of the Imperial Family belonging to the Romanovs, images of the Mother of God Three Joys based on Western European iconography, stone crosses. In March, the museum will present the exhibition Hellenic Sages which will tell about a special phenomenon – images of ancient philosophers and poets in church decorations, as well as the rare icon of Justin Martyr of the XIX century, which recently entered the museum’s collections.

Overall, the museum’s plan for 2023 includes over 14 exhibitions.