Museum of the War of 1812 amount of funds State Historical Museum and private collections

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Museum of the War of 1812 amount of funds State Historical Museum and private collections

MOSCOW, October 12 - RIA Novosti, Maria Ganiyants. The Museum of the War of 1812 will be a place for large-scale collection of artifacts from the Napoleonic Era from the State Historical Museum (SHM), and for exhibitions of private collections, told the RIA news director Alex Levykin GIM.

Museum of the War of 1812, scheduled to open next fall in the courtyard of the Lenin Museum, will be a two-level pavilion with a transparent roof area of ​​1200 square meters. For its construction from the federal treasury allocated 400 million rubles, and the total budget State Historical Museum, which also includes St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin Museum, the House of Romanov in charge, and a complex of buildings on the island of Izmailovo, 1 billion rubles.

"Funds from State Historical Museum will be enough. In addition, the museum is ready to contribute and display of private collections, as we know now that many people in Russia Napoleon's addicted to themes" - promised Levykin.

The basis of the exposure, he said, will be those items that were accumulated in the funds of the Museum of History after an extensive exhibition, held in the capital on the occasion of the centennial of the War of 1812.

"This show even inspired the idea of ​​a museum in 1812, but World War I came, then came the" hegemon "- and everything went to pieces. The museum was not created, but retained part of the collection," - explained Levykin.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, today the situation is repeated in many of Peter's time, when Russia was like a vacuum cleaner sucked all the best in European art. Many of the passing of Guimet exhibition, said museum director, are connected with private collections. Collectors often sell items to the museum is cheaper to raise his reputation, it also explains the desire to show the collection to the museum grounds. Often, collectors and even fund the exhibition.

Napoleon's subjects and objects connected with the war of 1812, have always been popular among Russian collectors and fans of Western art and antiques. One of the most famous collectors in this area was the businessman Viktor Baturin, inflated prices on the world market.

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