History of Saint-Petersburg: Exhibition “Time to gather stones…” in the Memorial Museum “Savior on the Blood”

December 30, 2013 in the sacristy of the Museum-Monument "Savior on the Blood" (St. Petersburg) opens the exhibition "Time to gather stones together…". The exhibition opens a new exhibition space - a museum of stone in the vestry. This is due to the fact that in the creation of the unique appearance of the Northern capital is used considerable quantities of various species of natural colored stones.

The décor of ones and strength of others identified the main ways of its use, and the stone has been widely used and its rightful place in the construction, architecture, sculpture, jewelry and decorative arts.

The exhibition "Time to gather stones…" is devoted to the amazing beauty of the material which the nature itself has created for many centuries so that we could admire this miracle. When you create a collection of exhibitions from the collections of the State Museum -Monument "St. Isaac's Cathedral", as in decorative and artistic decoration of St. Isaac's Cathedral and Church of Resurrection you will see different kinds of granite and marble, quartzite and shale, malachite, lapis lazuli and other semi-precious stones.

The opening of the museum in Riznitsa - the restoration of historical justice, as conceived and built this building for the location it has various donations coming to St. Petersburg from all over Russia to build a temple in memory of the tragic event 1 (14) in March 1881.

The exhibition "Time to collect stones…" consists of two sections and includes more than 100 exhibits.

The basis of the first section comprised samples of different rocks: Revnev jasper and porphyry Korgon Altai, Transbaikalia lapis lazuli, marble and porphyry of Shoksha Karelia, Orlets and landscape jasper of the Urals, colored Italian marble and Siena Seravezza, Ukrainian labradorite and Afghan lapis lazuli, and the subjects of these stones. In the windows are exposed mineral specimens and products from a unique collection of the Mining Museum, as well as religious objects and icons from the collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion.

The decoration of the section is printing elaborately carved in stone, plaques and paperweights in Florentine mosaic technique from the State Museum-monument "St. Isaac's Cathedral", exhibited for the first time.

The second part of the exhibition presents works of art made ​​of amber: St. Isaac's Cathedral model in 1:200 scale and monumental amber icons of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation A. Krylov, implemented in the technique of mosaic and represented a new direction in the development of amber art.