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“The Manor World of Moscow Neighbourhood” will be shown in Vyoshenskaya

On June 9, 2017, the exhibition and excursion centre of the People’s House of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov will open an exhibition “The Manor World of Moscow Neighbourhood” from the Moscow State United Historical, Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve “Kolomenskoye-Izmailovo-Lyublino”.

This project was based on the exhibition “Holidays in the Estates” which was set out in the 2014–2015, in the manor of N.A.Durasov in Lyublino jointly with the estate museums of Ostankino, Arkhangelskoye and Kuskovo, and private collectors. The collected material displaying a wide and deep picture of the manor holiday life laid a foundation of the present exhibition project showing holidays in the manors located near Moscow, which became a personification of the Moscow nobility culture.

The exhibition “The Manor World of Moscow Neighbourhood” had a successful run in 2015–2016, in the Dagestan P.M.Gamzatova Museum of Fine Arts in Makhachkala, in the Astrakhan State United Museum-Reserve and in the Krasnodar Territorial F.A.Kovalenko Art Museum. Now the exhibition project is received in the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya.

In the XVIII–XIX centuries, holidays in Moscow and outside it were especially lavish. There reigned a spirit of rivalry, and each well-born Muscovite tried to outbid his neighbour in splendor of reception. The Moscow nobility, far from the capital ceremony, lived high and was famous for its unusual cordiality and hospitability. Thus, there was formed a kind of opposition of the manorial, free Moscow to the official, serving Petersburg.

The most well-known manors in Moscow neighbourhood were those of the Sheremetevs in Ostankino and Kuskovo, of the Yusupovs in Arkhangelskoye, of N.A.Durasov in Lyublino, of the Golitsyns, and others.

The private libraries, collections of painting and decorative art, which were collected by generations of the manors’ inhabitants, the architectural uniqueness of the landscape and the manor – all these gave a special aesthetics to the manor life and turned the manor into a storage place of an ancestral memory and history of culture in general.

The exhibition will display 200 authentic items from the collection of the Moscow United Museum-Reserve. There is old china and glass ware of the Imperial glass and porcelain factories, items of the famous company of M.S.Kuznetsov, Gardner’s factories, Kornilov Brothers’ factory, which were a part of serving the ceremonial feasts, costumes and ladies accessories, furniture, interior items of Russian and French work, and old musical instruments.

In a special section of the exhibition the visitors will see replicas of the forgotten and outdated cakes and other tea-party dishes recovered after the old cookbook recipes by confectionery master Aldis Brichevs.

The exhibition “The Manor World of Moscow Neighbourhood” will run until 11 of September, 2017.

Irina Koveshnikova