The exhibition "Two of the Emperor" at the Museum of Decorative and Applied Art from February 14

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All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts (Moscow, ul. Delegatskaya, 3) from February 15 until March 15, will host the exhibition "Two of the Emperor", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Welcome to the opening of the project February 14 (Tuesday) from 17.00.
        The exhibition "Two of the Emperor" is one of the first in our country in a series of anniversaries of historic events in 2012 declared the Year of Russian history. For this "overture" taken an unusual perspective: the relationship between the two Emperors - Alexander I and Napoleon I. Thematically, the exhibition is sustained by historical periods and presented exhibits from major private collections in Alexander Vihrova that it generates more than 30 years, supplemented by a number of things from the museum VMDPiNI and other gatherings.
         And the friendship and enmity of Alexander and Napoleon were woven and of paradoxes: a peace-loving Russian emperor was the initiator of all its wars with France, and the warlike Emperor of the French constantly sought alliance with Russia. "Alexander! - Broke down once on the lips of the prisoner of St. Helena - we loved each other ... ".
         Two great emperors associated epochal events of war and peace. Austerlitz, Tilsit, Borodino, the entry of the French in Moscow, Battle of Nations near Leipzig, finally, the capture of Paris, and each of the events has been widely reflected in European art.
         The viewer sees a mosaic of numerous articles and works of art, French, Italian, German and Russian origin, which were created between the end of the XVIII century. to this day. Paintings and drawings, medals and coins, statues made of ivory, bronze, porcelain bisque and the classic, decorative plates with images of the brightest moments of the life of the emperors, snuff boxes, cigarette cases, decorated with portraits in miniature, porcelain and glass, rare folios, finally, things that are memorativny character, including an autograph Bonaparte.