SCIENTIFIС CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE COLLECTING WAS HELD IN THE MOSCOW KREMLIN MUSEUMS

Welcoming speech of deputy Director for scientific Work of the Moscow Kremlin Museums Andrey Batalov
Rector of the Russian State Social University, Professor of the Moscow State Lomonosov University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Andrey Khasin with a report ‘Private Collecting as framing, Addition and Source of Replenishment of state Museum Collections’
Head of the Department of Numismatics and Archaeology of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Sergey Zverev with a report ‘Old Coins in the Collections of Amateurs Scholars of Russian History in the First Half of the 19th Century: from Trendiness to Scientific Research’
Head of the Department of Printed and Manuscript Funds of the Moscow Kremlin Museums Elena Isaeva with a report ‘Russian Museum of P.F. Karabanov in the History of National Collecting’
Senior Scientific Researcher of the Sector of Weapons and Horse Harnesses in the Scientific and Conservation Department ‘The Armoury Chamber’
Alexander Chubinsky with a report ‘Weapons and Military Equipment in the Collections of P.F. Karabanov and M.P. Pogodin’
Scientific Researcher of the Department of Facilities and Conditions for Preservation of Museum Objects
Tatyana Zhitkova with a report ‘Alexander Semyonovich Annenkov – Archaeologist-collector, Researcher and Businessman’
Scientific Researcher of the Sector of Weapons and Horse Harnesses in the Scientific and Conservation Department ‘The Armoury Chamber'
Vasily Novoselov with a report ‘Arsenal of Grand Prince Petr Fyodorovich in Oranienbaum: Armoury, Collection, Museum?’
Participants of the Conference
Participants of the Conference
Participants of the Conference
Participants of the Conference
Display of Library Editions
Display of Library Editions
Ph.D. in Art History, Staff Member of the State Museum of Oriental Art
Mikhail Butyrskywith a report ‘Private Collecting as a Form of Preserving the Objects of Numismatics and Sphragistics’
Director of the Museum of the Russian Icon named after Mikhail Abramov
Nikolay Zadorozhny with a report ‘The Museum of the Russian Icon named after Mikhail Abramov Revealing and Introducing the Monuments from Private Collections into Scholarly Discourse’
Staff Member of the State Museum andNature Reserve ‘Tsaritsyno’
Natalya Polonnikova with a report ‘Collection of the New year Tree Decorations in Russia. On the Question of Modern Collecting’
Ph.D. in History, Staff Member of the State Museum and Nature Reserve ‘Arkhangelskoe’
Konstantin Bolenko with a report ‘Gallery of Carriages of Princes Yusupovs in the 1840s-1920s: New Data and Outlook’
Staff Member of the State Hermitage
Sergey Orekhov with a report 'A Collection […] one of a Kind’: Searching for the Collection of Prints of P. F. Korobanov’
Ph.D. in Philology, Staff Member of the State Historical Museum Elena Yukhimenko with a report ‘Count Alexey Sergeevich Uvarov – Scientist and Collector’
Staff Member of the State Tretyakov Gallery Ekaterina Gladysheva with a report ‘Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov – a Collector of the Old Russian Art’
Ph.D. in History, Staff Member of the Russian State War-Historical Archive Oleg Chistyakov with a report ‘Fate of P. Ya. Dashkov’s Collection in the Documents of the Russian State War-Historical Archive’
Staff Member of the State Darwin Museum Dmitry Miloserdov with a report ‘Collecting of Weapons and Armours from the Middle Asian Khanates by Citizens of the Russian Empire in the 19th Century’
Ph.D. in Art History, Staff Member of the State Tretyakov Gallery Tatyana Samoylova with a report ‘Pectoral Icon Made of Carved Bone from the Collection of I.S. Ostroukhov’
Head of the Museum Exhibitions Department of the Military Uniform Museum of ‘The Russian War-Historical Society’ Anton Glinkin with a report ‘Museum Enlightment Project “Hunters and Collectors”’
Intedendent Researcher Yury Izbachkov with a report ‘Peculiarities of Purchases of Private Collections by the State (on the example of F.M. Plushkin’s Collection)’
Staff Member of the State National Library Zhanna Levshina with a report ‘Ivan Petrovich Laptev – Collector, Owner and Reader of Books and Manuscripts’

On 25-26 April 2024, the Cross Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace hosted the conference “Private Collecting as a Form of Preserving National Historical Objects”, timed to the current exhibition of the museum “Amateur Scholars of the Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century”.

The representatives of museums, libraries and archives discussed the history of private collections in Russia in the 18th-19th centuries, private collecting in the context of the cultural life of the country, preservation of historical heritage through private collections, fate of private collections in state museums and their role in scientific life.

Deputy Director for the Scientific Work of the Moscow Kremlin Museums Andrey Batalov addressed the guests with a welcoming speech.

“This is the first conference in our museum that is dedicated to private collecting. If we remember the history of almost every museum, except ours and the Hermitage, in majority their historical core comes from the private collections. The art history - pictorial or decorative – is guilty of one paradox: private interest and private enthusiasm determine the level of social awareness of the art history,” he noted.

Members of the staff of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Hermitage, State Historical Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, State Museum of Oriental Art, Russian Ethnographical Museum, Russian State War-Historical Archive, Russian National Library, etc. spoke at the conference.

State Research Institute for Restoration, Central Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art, representatives of the Church-scientific Centre “The Orthodox Encyclopedia”, and Sretensky Ecclesiastical Academy

The conference finished with a guided tour round the exhibition “Amateur Scholars of the Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century”.