Museum of ancient Russian culture and art. Andrei Rublev

The oldest construction of Moscow is not at all the Kremlin, as many are sure, and the monastery is accuracy-Andronikov. The cathedral itself is, and even more. He is very beautiful and known for the fact that he saved Moscow more than once. And here lived in monastic, Andrei Rublev. The fates of the monastery and the famous icon painter are inextricably intertwined. The holy monastery gave the shelter and spiritual food Rublev, and the icon painter himself became the involuntary Savior of the Cathedral after his death.

History of the Museum of A. Rublev

The monastery was formed in 1356, many Heroes of a Cool Field were buried in it. Here the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Vladimirsky, the Icon of the Most Holy Virgin, is believed that it was she who saved Moscow from the raid of Tamerlane. The cathedral is well strengthened by massive walls, behind which the townspeople have repeatedly covered during the occurrence of enemies.

In the XVIII century, a bell tower was built in the monastery, the second height after the Kremlin Ivan's Great, but it was blown up in the 30s, when they decided to fight churches. Approximately the same fate was waiting for the monastery itself, but completely unexpectedly scientists were found on the walls of the Fresco Cathedral of Andrei Rublev. They suffered greatly, as it turned out later, when Napoleon's raid, a significant part of them was lost forever. But the fact that it remained, enough to save the Cathedral from demolition - so the icon painter helped her the monastery. In 1947, on the rise of patriotism reigned after the war, it was decided to create the Museum of Andrei Rublev. In Andronician Monastery, the exposition began to work only in 1960, at the 600th anniversary of Andrei Rublev.

Museum exposition

Now Andrei Rublev Museum is the largest icon-painted worldwide. The main shrine in the Andronician monastery is already a variety of centuries, the image of the deceased is considered. This icon is invaluable, she is in the cathedral almost from the very foundation of the church. The following is the importance of the exhibit - masterpiece brush Andrei Rublev, Icona Forerunner icon. The figure of the saint is filled with unearthly sadness and tranquility. The viewer creates the impression that the Prophet knows the fate taken him. Icon is written so talented that even time could not reduce its impact on the viewer. The Prophet attracts views, despite the cracked wooden board and sweat paints.

The Rublev museum is also an exact copy of the famous ruble "Trinity". A non-specialist will not be able to distinguish a copy of the original. On the topic of the Trinity there are many icons. Rublev wrote a popular plot as no other. This can be seen by comparing with other icons, some of them are even to an earlier period. The museum holds work and other masters, not only icons, but also frescoes, objects of applied church art, wooden sculptures.

In museums, all church festivals are celebrated, lectures on the culture of ancient Russia and Byzantium are read, and on Sundays - concerts of instrumental and spiritual music. In the Museum of Andrei Rubleva, it will be interesting to look at the admirers of the talent of the icon painter, lovers of the Old Russian and Byzantine history, Orthodox Christians and simply inquisitive people.

Address of the Museum named after Andrei Rublev: Moskva, Andronievskaya pl., 10, metro: "Square Ilyich", "Roman", "Kurskaya", "Chkalovskaya".
Working hours of permanent exhibition and exhibitions:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 14:00 to 21:00 (Cassa until 20:15)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00 (Cassa until 17:15)
On Wednesday, exposure and exhibition are closed.
The territory of the museum is open daily from 9:00 to 21:00.
Andrei Rublev Museum Phone: (495) 678-14-67.
Andrei Rublev Museum Museum site: http://www.rublev-museum.ru.

The Central Museum of the Old Russian Culture and Art of the name of Andrei Rublev is the only special museum in Russia, dedicated to the Russian artistic culture of the Middle Ages. The museum is located in the walls of Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, where he lived, worked and was buried the great Russian icon painter Rev. Andrei Rublev.

On the territory of the monastery, the oldest stone temple was preserved in Moscow - the Spassky Cathedral, erected during the life of Andrei Rublev in the first quarter of the XV century.

The collection of the museum is collected over the past 50 years and includes about 10 thousand works of Old Russian art. It gives a comprehensive idea of \u200b\u200bthe artistic life of ancient Russia. Its main core make up the works of visual art: monuments of iconopys of the XIII-XVII centuries, book miniatures, monumental painting (fragments of painted paintings, as well as copies of the frescoes).

The collection of iconography includes monuments of all directions and schools from antiquity to late Middle Ages (Moscow, Rostov, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Volga region). The pride of the museum collection is the works of Masters of the Circle of Andrei Rublev and Dionysius, their closest followers, images created by the special order of Ivan the Terrible, the subscription works of the Armory Israight Chamber.

The collection of the museum presents a variety of works of decorative and applied arts of the XI-XIX centuries: facial sewing, wooden sculpture, small plastic, enamel, products from precious metals. The collection of manuscripts and old-line books includes liturgical and secular compositions, the singing books of the XV-XIX centuries.

The museum offers visitors a variety of review and thematic excursions, as well as special programs for children and adults.

Highly qualified museum specialists conduct an examination of the works of Old Russian art.

History of the Museum of the name Andrei Rublev

The Andrei Rublev Museum was established by Government Decree on December 10, 1947. The initiator of the Museum was the initiator of the Museum was Peter Dmitrievich Baranovsky (1892-1984), a well-known architect restorer, which made a lot to preserve the ancient Russian artistic heritage. The museum organization saved the Architectural Ensemble of Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, in the walls of which created and was buried the great icon painter Andrei Rublev. The foundation of the museum was timed to the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Moscow.

David Ilyich Arsenishvili (1905-1963), the enthusiast of the museum business, the founder of theatrical and literary museums in Tbilisi, and the first researcher - Natalia Alekseevna Demin (1904-1990), one of the outstanding researchers of the Old Russian art, Connoisseur of creativity Andrei Rublev.

In the early 1950s, young art historian Irina Alexandrovna Ivanova came to the museum. The efforts of these people were organized the first scientific expeditions, the formation of the collections of the museum began. His staff often saved from the death of the work of ancient Russian art, exporting them from the temples and some peripheral local lore museums, which were not cleaned and feared to keep dubious from the point of view of the ideology of the work time. The first arrivals in the museum were several Icons of the XVI-XVII centuries. From the Vladimir Museum of Local Lore and the Cathedral of the Sauzo-Eviefimyev Monastery in Suzdal, created in the 1660s.

At the same time, the research and scientific restoration of the architectural ensemble of the monastery and the scientific restoration of the architectural ensemble of the monastery, primarily the Blood Spassky Cathedral of the 15th century - the oldest preserved monument of the architecture of Moscow, as well as other monastic buildings.

The museum was open to visitors on September 21, 1960. This year was announced by UNESCO for the celebration of the 600-year-old anniversary of Andrei Rublev, and the opening of the museum became one of the most important events of anniversary days. At that time, the museum assembly consisted of only 317 monuments. To date, thanks to numerous expeditions, acquisitions, as well as valuable offerings, there are about 10 thousand objects of icons, works of decorative and applied arts, originals and copies of frescoes, handwritten and old-line books, archeology monuments.

The Andrei Rublev Museum took a special place among other Russian museums. He became the only museum in the country of the Fine Arts of the Domestic Middle Ages, covering a huge stage of history with a length of more than seven centuries. Since the opening, the museum was a real informal cultural center where the Moscow intelligentsia flocked, which had previously discovered an unknown world of ancient Russian visual art. In the 1960s, a new generation of researchers came to the museum, among which G.V. Popov, now being his director, as well as the K.G. Tikhomirova, V.V. Kirichenko, A.S. Loginova, V.N. Sergeev, L.M. Evseeva, I.A. Kochetkov. At that time, the museum was particularly numerous expeditions, thanks to which the museum collection expanded significantly. The meeting was replenished and using procurement from private owners, collectors, antique and buccinistic stores. Many works detained when trying to illegal export abroad transferred to the Museum with state organizations: customs, internal affairs bodies and state security. Friends of the museum, private collectors with their generous gifts also made an active contribution to the replenishment of the museum assembly. Among them. Kostaki and artist V.Ya. Sitnikov

A valuable assembly of icon painting of the XIII-XVII centuries brought the museum named after Andrei Rublev world fame. In 1991, he was listed as highly valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

In 2001, the first director of the Museum of D.I. Arsenishvili and the first scientific employee N.A. Deminina in the museum, on the wall of the instertainment corps, were established memorable boards of work to Zurab Tsereteli and Viktor Surovtsheva.

Andrei Rublev Museum Expositions

The permanent exposition of the museum is deployed in the architectural complex of the Church of Archangel Mikhail and the Food Chamber. It includes the most significant works of the museum collection, giving a holistic understanding of the history and development of Russian icon painting from the XII to the beginning of the XVIII century.

The exposition was built according to the chronological principle and is divided into two large sections dedicated to the Russian visual art of antiquity (painting XII - early XVI century) and late Middle Ages (painting XVI - early XVIII century). Inside the partitions of the exposure, separate artistic centers are allocated (exposure plans of the first and second floors).

The exposition section of painting XII - early XVI century is located on the second floor. In the premises of the Church of Archangel, Mikhail are presented the ancient icons of the assembly and monuments of the iconopus of Peter I by the Boyarian Lvir Naryshkin in his near Moscow estate and is a bright sample of architecture of the so-called Naryshkin style (or Baroque). It is distinguished by the use of non-traditional for the ancient Russian architecture of the solution of the plan and bulk composition, the orientation of European samples in white-changing threads.

The church has thrones in summer and winter temples. Upper, summer, in the name of the Savior of the Unclean, almost completely retained the initial decorative decoration of the interior. The gilded carving of the iconostasis, pollosy and royal lodges is made by the best Moscow sharp. Icons for iconostasis are written by outstanding artists from among the royal masters of the Armory Chamber, Cyril Ulanov and Karp Zolotarev. The interior of Lower, Pokrovskaya, the church was repeatedly updated during the XVIII-XIX centuries.

Address: Moscow, ul. Novozavodskaya, 6, metro: "Fili"

"Opened the abyss, the stars are full" - this is the way you can briefly describe my impressions from visiting the Museum of Andrei Rublev, officially referred to as the Central Museum of the Old Russian Culture and the art of the name of Andrei Rublev.

Let's start with the fact that the museum itself is located on the territory of the Savazo-Andronnikova of the monastery (based on this place in the 14th century), and the exposition itself occupies the premises of the Church of Mikhail Arkhangel (1691-1739). It is very successful, in my opinion, because The main part of the collection of the museum is icons and other items associated with religion. In this place, I was waiting for several amazing discoveries at once, I will try to tell about them in order.

We came here to the opening of the exhibition " The apocalypse is wonderful", which is devoted to the wonderful monument of the Pomeranian Old Believer Book Culture of the late XVII - early XVIII century. - Illustrated manuscript of the Book of Revelation of John the Bogoslov. But the first thing we saw (and amazed to impress) was the hall of the 16th century icons.

Pay attention to the background on which icons are located. It seems to me that this is a completely beautiful find. Fresh color of young foliage incredibly goes to the icons of the 16th century, in which there is a lot of the same tenderness, strength and freshness. A little later, the museum staff told us that the color space is an idea underlying the new museum design. Each room is devoted to icons of a certain period. And the color of the background not only simplifies the classification of pictorial work to one or another century, but also chosen in accordance with the color preferences of the icon painters. For example, for the 18th century, noble dark green was chosen, for the 19th century - rich blue.

Here I was interested in an unusual icon of Our Lady, around the image of which a lot of characters. It is here that you realize how much the middle man of the 19th century was more knowledgeable in symbolism than the same person of the century 21 ... it would be very interesting to decipher all these small images in the circles.

All the above rooms (green and blue) are on the second floor, but do not think that it's all. The first floor is devoted to the most ancient and valuable icons (they are on a red background), and if climbing above, you can see a rare wooden sculpture (in my opinion - charming and very interesting), and even higher - the frescoes of the altar, transferred here from the destroyed temples ( The photo does not transmit the atmosphere atmosphere at all, so come to look with your own eyes).

But back to the subject of our initial curiosity. Those. To the old supplied manuscript. It is worth noting that this exhibition is unique - only one exhibit is presented on it, but almost all pages can be considered in detail. Of course, no one will resolve flipping an old copy, but the miniatures and texts can be seen as much as you like to look at the big screen.

The initial miniature shows John the Theologian with the angel sent to him sent by the Lord to show the revelation that "something will be right." And it is this future that we later see the eyes of John. By the way, the miniatures turned out to be very exciting. The manuscript is made with great love, each sheet is framed, the screensavers are impressive with a magnifying pattern, the headers neatly withdrawn by cinnabar.

The "Apocalypse" miniatures consistently reveal the content of the book by the Revelation of John the Bogoslov. The main cycle of the apocalypse is 72 miniatures accompanying each chapter. So even an illiterate person, a leafing book, I would understand much for myself. By the way, pay attention to the images of tulips. Tulips are something like a sign of the artist. They are found quite a lot across the manuscript.

Mysterious content, bright images, the numerical symbolism of the apocalypse led to what extensive interpreting literature appeared. The most famous and popular was the interpretation of Andrei Caesarian (6-7 century). He broke the text on 72 chapters, explaining this as follows: this essay was divided into twenty-four words and seventy-two chapters for the treasures of the creature - the body, the soul and spirit, twenty-four elders, which, as confirmed below, is denoted by the fullness of the god westing from the beginning to the condation of the century. Further reasoning about this warhead book we consider completely excessiveand. However, such a statement did not prevent further interpreters to offer their versions. This "apocalypse", for example, three-headed - i.e. He has in except for canonical two more (anonymous) interpreter.

In general, the further you choose in this topic, the more interesting it becomes. That is truly the abyss, the stars are full. I can not not say that this book is written in Amsterdam paper. Those. Communication of Pomeranian Old Believers with Europe is another curious topic.

The exhibition will last only 1 month - until April 10, 2018 (then the book will change something else, probably also curious), so hurry to see.

On this it was time to finish, but I want to say about another room, which made a brightest impression on me. Iconostasis (brought from the Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Savior-Eviliyyev Monastery) here is lowered down at the floor level. Due to this, the person entering the hall suddenly turns out to be among the saints. At the expense of close levels (icons just in human height), an amazing feeling of informing images arises. In the human sense. And this is a completely stunning feeling! It is very difficult to explain, but as if the sky went down to you. Just only for this, it is worth come here.

The Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art is located on the territory of Savazo-Andronikov Monastery (I will tell about the monastery in a separate post), founded in the middle of the XIV century and associated with the Kulikov battle and other events of Russian history and culture.
In the ancient architectural monument of Moscow, the Spassky Cathedral (20s of the 15th century), the frescoes of Andrei Rublev, the Grand Icon of Ancient Russia, are preserved in the window openings of the altar. In this monastery, he was inkom and here at 1430 was buried. The grave is not preserved. And the most major works of Andrei Rublev - icons, as well as frescoes in the Cathedral of Assumption in Vladimir (1408). Deisis of the work of Faofan Greek and Andrei Rublev, as well as all the Zlakadaya Church of the Annunciation in the royal court, at the royal treasury, burned during a large fire in Moscow in 1547.
At the beginning, there were only copies and photos in the museum, then they began to bring the icons written off by dying, filmed from the walls of the frescoes. Now in the museum more than 5 thousand icons, and among them there are works Dionysius.
The Andrei Rublev Museum was established on December 10, 1947, and the initiator of the creation of the museum was opened for a visitant at 21 September 1960. Baranovsky (1892-1984), a well-known architect restorer.
A valuable assembly of icon painting of the XIII-XVII centuries brought the museum named after Andrei Rublev world fame. In 1991, he was listed as highly valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

Christ Almighty 1685

Updating the church of the Resurrection of Christ is 17th century.

Volga from Village Nikolskoy Borisoglebsky district of the Yaroslavl region

Our Lady with a baby on the throne.
End of the 17th century
Karp Zolotoev. Moscow, golden workshop of the Embassy Order.

Virgin Vladimirskaya
Around 1676
Weapon Chamber, Moscow. From the praise church, Eagle, the Bereznik district of the Perm region.

Our Lady is unalitable binary
17th century. Postwer.
From Trinity Makaryevo Monastery in Kalyazin

Christ Altage
1703
Fiteyev. Weapon Chamber, Moscow. From the Arkhangelsk Cathedral in the Bronnitsy of the Moscow region.

Tsarist Gate and Proverage Sen
Mid 17th century. Length. From the Znamensky Church of the village of Pylish Tver region.

Saint Alexey Man of God and Rev. Maria Egypt
Mid 17th century. Moscow. From the Cathedral of the Sretensky Monastery.

Christmas of Our Lady
The first half of the 17th century. Lent.
From the church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Drayuntkovoy Tver region

Platiec Veniamin and Farwan Nuffalin
From the principal number of the iconostasis of the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the Solovtsovsky Monastery.

Archangel Michael. Trinity. Archangel Gabriel
The first half of the 17th century.
The workshop of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in the Clemental Sloboda.I.Iconostasis of the Epiphany Church of the village of Semenovsky Moscow region.

Tsarist Gate
The second half of the 16th century. Russian North.
From the church of the Assumption of Varzaga Murmansk region.

Archangel Mikhail, with Acts
16th century. Great Ustyug.
From the Church of Assumption in Lalysk Kirov region.

Martyr Parashen Friday
16th century. Novgorod.

Saint Blessed Prince Peter Muromsky and the Holy Plyazhny Princess Fevronia Muromskaya
The end of the 16th century. Murom.
From the Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Spassky Monastery in Murom of the Vladimir region.

St. John Zlatoust and Vasily Great
Fragment of the sash of the royal gates. 16th century. Yaroslavl.

Our Lady Tikhvinskaya
1550s. Moscow.

Saint Nikolai Mirlijsky
1550s. Moscow.
From the Assumption Cathedral in Dmitrov in the Moscow region.

Tsarist Gate
16th century. Novgorod province

Virgin

Savior in power
End of the 15th century. School School.
From the church of the village of Chernokhulov near Yuryev-Polish
(Dar Yu.M. Repin)

Position in the coffin
1497.I.Force Cyril-Belozersky Monastery Cathedral.

Conception of John the Forerunner (meeting at the Gold Gate)
15th century. Novgorod.

Great Martyr Parashen Friday with Life Stamps
16th century. Tver.
It comes from the church of the village of Porechye of the Bezhetsky district of the Tver region.

St. Nicholas Wonderworker
End of the 17th century. Wood.

Rev. Nile Stolobensky
The second half of the 19th century. Tver Province.

The Central Museum of the Old Russian Culture and Art of Andrei Rublev is the only State Specialized Museum of Russian Church Art of Middle Ages and New Time.

The museum is located in the walls of the famous Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, where the great icon painter Andrei Rublev painted the Spassky Cathedral - now the oldest temple of Moscow. The museum has a rich collection of iconopys in the XII - early XX centuries. In 2017, the Museum celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation.

In 1947, on the wave of post-war patriotic lifting, in the year of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, the museum was formed on the territory of the monastery. Andrei Rublev. Its first-director was a major organizer of Museum construction D.I. Arsenishvili (1905-1963), the first scientist - an outstanding connoisseur of CPP. Andrei Rubleva N.A. Demin (1904-1990).

By the time of the founding of the museum, the monastery was completely ruined, the museum collection was collected literally on crumbs, in the situation of the extremely negative relationship between the state to the domestic religious heritage. The collected works often demanded careful and many years of restoration.

Nevertheless, 13 years old, September 21, 1960, the museum was opened and submitted to the court of visitors to the halls with dozens of disclosed records and dirt icons taken from the walls of destroyed churches of paintings and works of decorative and applied art. Collecting activities and restoration work continues to the present and are an integral part of the everyday museum life.

Now the exposition occupies all renovated and accessible to inspection of the dispensing chamber and the church of Archangel Mikhail. An exhibition hall is located in the infant building.

Mode of operation:

• monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 14:00 to 21:00;
• friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00;
• wednesday - day off.

The territory of the museum is open daily from 9:00 to 21:00.

Ticket price:

Permanent exposure

• for foreign citizens - 400 rubles;
• for citizens of the Russian Federation and CIS countries - 299 rubles;
• preferential ticket - 150 rubles.

Temporary exhibitions

For temporary exhibitions, tickets are sold separately, the cost may vary depending on the exhibition.