History and Culture: Exhibition “The Enchanted Wanderer. Peter the Great – Researcher, Artist and Collector” to be presented in Moscow

The exhibition “The Enchanted Wanderer. Peter the Great – Researcher, Artist and Collector” will be presented at the end of 2019 at the Moscow Kremlin Museums (Exhibition Hall of the Assumption Belfry, Exhibition Hall of the Patriarch’s House).

The epoch of Peter the Great is traditionally associated in collective consciousness with major reforms in the administrative sphere, birth of the regular army and navy, victories in the Great Northern War and change in the lifestyle of the Russian society. Peter the Great is less known as the patron of science and arts, the founder of the first national public museum. Collections of Peter the Great, both scientific and artistic, opened up new horizons for the Russian society, changed attitude towards current context, stimulated interest of discoverers, statesmen, philanthropists as well as beauty connoisseurs.