Exhibitions: The exposition “Journey from Petersburg to Moscow” from the Museum-Reserve “Spasskoe-Lutovinovo” opened in Lipetsk

In the Lipetsk Regional Art Museum was opened an exhibition "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow" from the I. S. Turgenev State Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve "Spasskoe-Lutovinovo" (the Orel region).

For more than three hundred years the road from St. Petersburg to Moscow there has been the Russian main road. The most famous literary work, dedicated to this route, became the novel by A. N. Radishshev "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", published in 1790.

The I. S. Museum-Reserve “Spasskoe-Lutovinovo” in recent years hosted a unique collection of engravings, lithographs, works of decorative art objects noble and peasant life, which allowed not only illustrating the famous work Radishcheva, but also talking about how in the XIX century people traveled, what they took to the road. Views of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk, Pskov and Tver, postal stations and inns, scenes from Russian life are depicted in the engravings and lithographs made by Russian, French, English engravers and lithographs of the XVIII - early XIX centuries.

The I. S. Turgenev Museum-Reserve also presents rare editions of works by I. S. Turgenev, V. A. Zhukovsky, F. I. Tyutchev and A. A. Fet, J. P. Polonsky and N. A. Nekrasov. Visitors will see the trunks and travel bags, Valdai bells, and more, without which it is impossible to imagine the journey of the XIX century.