Furniture Museum description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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The Furniture Museum was opened in Moscow on July 17, 2000. The museum is located in a restored estate on Taganskaya Street. The estate belonged to the famous nobleman Nikolai Arshenevsky, back in Catherine's and Pavlov's times. In 1780 he bought the estate from a merchant and manufacturer from Ryazan - Gerasim Ipatiev. Arshenevsky's high position led to the fact that his house was included in the album "The best houses in Moscow that deserve attention", compiled by the architect M. Kazakov. The album contained the facade of Arshenevsky's house and its plan.

In 1802, Arshenevsky died. After him, the house was visited by several owners. The last owner, until the revolution, was Pelageya Potapovna Kokushkina. In Soviet times, the house had communal housing, and in the last years of our time - the Voskhod printing house. The house was brought to almost complete destruction.

The estate was restored by the joint efforts of the Moscow Government, master restorers of the Smirvald company and the Main Directorate of Monument Protection in Moscow. The estate was restored almost from ruins.

The exposition of the modern museum consists of 10 rooms. The exposition presents a wide range of furniture samples made by Russian cabinetmakers from the 18th to the early 20th century in styles from Baroque to Art Nouveau. The museum displays examples of various types of furniture, from a stool made by a serf to a complex bureau with masterly finished decoration. The main theme of the museum is also traced - "Interior and manor furniture of the first half of the 19th century". The manor interiors differed from the ceremonial palace interiors. The manor interiors reflected more the traditional way of life. The ideas of the owners were often implemented inconsistently, depended on wealth and lifestyle. Therefore, they were diverse and had an individual character. The interiors of the museum are formed in accordance with the metropolitan samples.

At the end of the 18th century, many different pieces of furniture brought from Europe appeared in the houses. Workshops worked in Russia that made copies of successful foreign samples. In doing so, the samples were tailored to local needs and tastes. The decoration and the materials from which it was made were simplified. This brought some naivety to the style.

The museum is doing a lot to preserve unique pieces of furniture. The museum takes part in furniture exhibitions, organizes musical evenings and literary readings within its walls. The museum publishes books on furniture, graduates of the M. Stroganov.

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