On 4 June in the Literary Drawing Room of the GUM Department Store, the presentation of the exhibition catalogue “The Heavenly Host. Image and Veneration” and programs, specially prepared for the project of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, was held within the framework of the “Red Square” Book Fair.

Curator of the exhibition Sergei Brun told about the concept and incorporation of the project, its key ideas and principal objects. The presentation ended with a quiz, the winners of which received museum publications.

After that, Katalin Medvedeva, Head of Lecture Department, and Anastasia Kuporisova, Methodologist of Children’s Centre in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, introduced to the audience the educational projects for the exhibition “Invisible Battle. Piety of Russian sovereigns and the Moscow Kremlin” and “The Heavenly Host in the Moscow Kremlin”. Besides, the guests learned about the lesson for children “Defenders of the Russian land – on earth and on heaven”: together with the museum staff, the young audience went through a quest, pieced together an unusual puzzle, tried the armour of a Russian warrior and took part in a thematic photo session.

The stand of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, dedicated to the exhibition “The Heavenly Host. Image and Veneration”,  worked in the GUM Department Store, on the Museum line. Traditionally for the book fair, there were presented catalogues of different exhibitions, scientific editions, books for family reading, albums and thematic prospectuses, connected to the projects and collections of the museum.