To the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty: The unique exhibition project “Icons of the era of the first tsars of the Romanov dynasty” in Kolomenskoye

June 5, 2013 at the Museum Reserve “Kolomenskoye” (the Moscow region) opens the unique exhibition project “Icons of the era of the first tsars of the Romanov dynasty”.

In the halls of the wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is presented more than a hundred icons. The exhibition was preceded by a long-term work of the museum conservators and researchers of the Russian icon painting.

The presented icons from the collection of the museum are the “golden fund” of the Russian icon painting of the XVII century. They were created by artists during the reign of the kings of the first dynasty of the Romanovs: Mikhail Feodorovich, Alexei Mikhailovich, Fyodor Alekseevich and Peter the Great. According to the custom of Moscow rulers the first kings of the house of Romanov considered iconography as a matter of national importance and have taken themselves on the role of the principal patrons of art.

The largest section of the exhibition is icons created in the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin. The very Armory has an exclusive value as the first state art school.

Among the icons - exhibits of the exhibition are “Trinity” of 1677, written by “the first royal painters” Simon Ushakov together with Nikita Pavlovtsev.

The exhibition also presents a unique monument of the era of the first emperor Mikhail Feodorovich - Royal Doors of the Solovetsky Monastery by the carver of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra Lev Ivanov.

One of the central pieces is the Altar canopy of the Solovetsky monastery. The carved inscription on it solemnly calls full titles of Emperor Theodore Alekseevich and Princes John Alexeevich and Peter Alexeyevich.

First the first time to the visitors is presented the marching church of the early XVII century from Serpukhov Vysotsky monastery. This is not only an outstanding work of master painters, but also evidence of the military history of our country. It was removed from the monastery to carry prayers to the Warriors that gathered before the battle on the high bank of the Oka River.

The exhibition will run till October 27, 2013.