History of Moscow: The exhibition "Moscow through the eyes of foreigners" to the 870th anniversary of the capital

The exhibition "To the 870th anniversary of Moscow. Moscow through the eyes of foreigners" is opened on June 30, 2017 in the Museum of Moscow.

The museum presents the most vivid pictorial and graphic works from its collection at the exhibition. Visitors will be able to look at the city of 200 years ago, to draw parallels with today's day. The exhibition is built around the representatives of France, England, Holland and Germany, who inhabited Moscow, dating back to the times of Peter and the Revolution of 1917. The scope of employment of foreigners in Russia was wide, from trade to architecture. Most often these were areas where a rapidly developing state had much to learn from visiting masters. 

The exhibition shows engravings and drawings by such artists as Adrian Schonebek, Peter Picart, Heinrich de Witt, Gerard Delabart, Andre Durand, Auguste Cadem, Philippe Benoit.

The guests of the exhibition will see the most interesting places of the city imprinted: architectural monuments of the Kremlin, palaces, churches, churches, monasteries, in the construction of which took part, including foreigners and, of course, the inhabitants of Moscow. In addition to numerous notes-memoirs and artwork at the exhibition you can see what, in fact, amazed foreign guests - the characteristic objects of everyday life of Muscovites of that time. 

In addition to materials from the collection of the Moscow Museum, the exposition is supplemented with audio and video materials provided by the special partner of the exhibition - Arzamas.academy. These materials are part of the audio zone "Russia through the eyes of foreigners" and a video projection with the most vivid and interesting quotations of foreigners about Moscow and Russia. These materials were created with the assistance of scholars - historians, philologists and art critics.