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ELIZAVETA PETROVNA AND MOSCOW

10 december — 27 march 2011


The anniversary exhibition in honour of the 300 anniversary from the date of a birth in Moscow empresses Elizabeth Petrovna (1709–1762) finishes the trilogy devoted to mutual relations of the Russian emperors of a XVIII-th century and ancient capital. The intermuseum project will unite exhibits from funds of the largest treasuries of Moscow and Moscow suburbs. All stages of the biography and a side of the person of the empress are shined: children's and youthful years, coronation celebrations of 1742, “a small court yard”, court hunting and visiting of orthodox monasteries in vicinities of the first capital city (Moscow), home life and activity in the culture sphere, connected with foundation University  in Moscow and Academy of Arts in Petersburg , creation of the first Russian theatre. Products of painting, arts and crafts and jeweller art, a sculpture and a drawing, architectural sketches and models will allow to present a life of the empress and its environment on a wide background of the Moscow life of the middle of a XVIII century.