Collection of imitative art's materials


T he collection of imitative art’s materials shows consistently in an artistic form the history of Moscow, reconstructs pictures of its life, customs, a greate diversity of everyday life details. Two genres prevail in pictorial and graphic works: urbane landscape and portrait. Ap. M. Vasnetsov. The Red square in the second part of XVII century. 1925. Canvas, oil.

A mong artists are: I. Aivazovsky, V. Surikov, A. Ryabushkin, Ap. Vasntsov.

I.K. Aivazovsky. A view of Moscow from the Vorobyovy Hills. 1851. Canvas, oil.
The Iverskie Gates and Chapel. Publihed by I.E. Selin in Moscow. 1900s. T he numerous collection of postcards is devided into travelogue, illustrative and reproduction postcards, which were issued by various publishing houses in the late XIX-XX centuries. They reproduce a unique image of Moscow and a local colour of Moscow way of life.

The Red Gates. Published by von Girgenson in Moscow. 1900 s.
A panorama of Moscow and its environs from the Belfry of Ivan the Great. 1845-1846.