History of Russia: The exhibition project “Tsar Feast in Kolomenskoye” in Moscow

The Moscow United Museum-Reserve in Kolomenskoye in Stolovaya Chamber of the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich opened a new exhibition project “Tsar Feast in Kolomenskoye”. The exhibition is dedicated to the tsar feast – one of the most important court ceremonies. This unique museum project presents the first art reconstruction of tsar feasts during the heyday of the Russian court in the second half of the XVII century detailing each item of Stolovaya Chamber. For maximum accuracy were used cook and feed books, documents of court and monastery archives, illustrative materials and descriptions of feasts, authentic items of the XVII century from various museum collections.

As an analogy was used data on the feasts of royal courts of Central and Eastern Europe of the XVII century. The exhibition is a logical continuation of the historical and art interior reconstruction of the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye.

The multimedia part of the exhibition, “reviving” royal feast, involving all personages of the feast, immerses viewer to the atmosphere, the mood of the court ceremony.