Icons XIV-XV centuries from the Russian Museum collection will be sent to the exhibition in the Louvre

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Icons XIV-XV centuries from the Russian Museum collection will be sent to the exhibition in the Louvre

St. Petersburg. February 10. Interfax - The Russian Museum will take part in the exhibition "Holy Russia from ancient times to Peter," which opens in the Louvre on March 5, the press service of the repository.

From the Russian Museum in France sent 25 works of art, including icons, sculptures, books and objects of decorative art. For example, visitors to the exhibition will see the icon "Descent into Hell" XIV century, "Nativity of the Virgin" and "St. Demetrius of Thessalonica" XV century.

In addition, the exposure will form the product from the State Historical Museum, State Museum of the History of Religion, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Novgorod Museum. All the exhibition will be presented about 450 exhibits from 21 collections of Russia's cultural institutions.

Unique in its scale exposition will present the development of Russian art from the Christian IX to XVIII century. The first contacts between Rus and Byzantine Empire, its baptism of Prince Vladimir in 988, the heyday of Kiev, Novgorod, Pskov and Suzdal, Moscow XVI century as the Third Rome and the New Jerusalem, the religious reforms of Patriarch Nikon - all these facets of national history are reflected in the exhibition through the works from the collections of .

The exhibition will be held in the Year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia.

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