Tour audio Digest Collection

Menaion (monthly liturgical book) for January. Moscow, 1622. Book cover: 1620, restored in the XIX century (wood boards, leather, two metal fastening rings; tooling).

Gilded column from the iconostasis. Moscow, 1680s. Wood, gesso; carving, gilding.

Small tower-shaped chest (‘teremok’). Veliky Ustyug (Northern Russia), second half of XVII century. Wood, brass, mica; carpentry, perforation

Fr. Leonid (Kavelin). Historical essay on the Stauropegial Resurrection Monastery, also known as the New Jerusalem. Moscow, 1876. Issued by Mihail Katkov at Moscow University Printing House

Christ in the Dungeon. Russia, late XVIII – first third of the XIX century. Wood; carving, painting.

Disc-shaped Kvassnik (a vessel for kvass) depicting a lion and a rooster. Gzhel village, Moscow Governorate, Russia. Last third of XVIII century. Majolica, colored enamels; molding, modeling, painting, firing.

Door hinges (strap hiunge and two fragments). Kolomenskoe, Moscow Governorate, XVII century. Iron, tin; cold and hot forging; notching, tinplating

Cabbage head-shaped bowl with a lid. Moscow, Russia, 1776. Silver; forging, incuse, soldering, gilding

Jug with a handle. St. Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory. 1880s. Glass, etching

The Apostle, 4 July 1597. Book cover: 2nd halF of XVIII century (wood, leather, two metal fasteners; tooling).

St. Nicholas of Mozhaysk, sculptured image in a case. Russia, late XVII c. Wood, gesso; carving, painting, gilding. Icon case Moscow, XIX c. Wood, gesso, fabric, silver thread lace; carving, tempera painting, gilding

Dimitrie Cantemir. System of the Mohammedan religion. St. Petersburg, 1722

‘Peacock’ gingerbread mold Second half of XIX century Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. Wood; carving

Rushlight holder (svetets). Russia, XVII century. Iron; forging

Gilded fragment 'Curls and Roses' from the iconostasis. Mid-XVIII c. Wood, levkas; carving, gilding

Mug Moscow, 1770s Silver; forging, incuse, gilding

Goblet with a portrait and a monogram of Emperor Nicholas I. Imperial Glass Factory Second quarter of XIX century White transparent glass; blowing, wrapping up, engraving, faceting

Wilhelm Stratemann. Theatron, or historical review. Saint Petersburg. Alexander Nevski Monastery printing house, August 1724

Flagon. Vologda Governorate, Russia. Late XVII - early XIX cc.

Three glass bottles in hot-glass blowing technique

Folding mirror. Russia, XVII c.

Ascetical Homilies by St. Isaac the Syrian, translated by Paisius Velichkovsky. Russia. Manuscript copy made in 1821 – 1822 after a 1812 edition

6-candle stand. Netherlands. Late XVII – early XVIII century

LION HOLDING A BALL, SCULPTURE XVII century. Wood, carving, painting, gilding