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Elite Education in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. On Se

Elite Education in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. On September 18th, the Russian History Museum presented a livestream event, hosted on Zoom and YouTube. The Russian History Museum was fortunate to have Dr. Nancy Kovaleff Baker as she gave an overview of the history of the Smolny and its impressive educational offerings. Dr. Baker's photo album belonging either to her grandmother or great-aunt (both graduates of the institute) provided visuals for this talk.

You can still watch the full recording of the livestream. And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel!

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Fall colors are beginning to make an appearance!

Fall colors are beginning to make an appearance!

It’s the perfect time to visit our Museum, view our current special exhibition (“Revealing the Divine: Treasures of Russian Sacred Art”), and to take a tour of the collection and Holy Trinity Monastery Cathedral.

#russianhistorymuseum #rhm #jordanville #fall #джорданвилл #осень #revealingthedivine

Please join us this Saturday the eighteenth of Sep

Please join us this Saturday the eighteenth of September at 1:00 Eastern time for “Elite Education in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens” an online lecture by Dr. Nancy Kovaleff Baker.

The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens, or the Smolny Institute, was founded by Catherine the Great as the first state educational institution for women in Russia. This lecture will give an overview of the history of the Smolny and its impressive educational offerings. The presentation is illustrated by very rare photographs contained in an album given to either Dr. Baker’s grandmother or her aunt, both students at the Smolny Institute. Dr. Baker will outline her ancestors’ paths from St. Petersburg to New York City and discuss the importance of learning our forebears’ stories, our heritage from the past.

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Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the t

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the translation of the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky. This year marks the 800th anniversary of this gifted prince’s birth.

This fine watercolor of St. Alexander appears in an 1883 book about the Cathedral of St. Isaac. Judging by the presence of other hand-painted illustrations in this book, it’s likely that it was a presentation copy given to Alexander III (St. Alexander was the Emperor’s heavenly patron). #alexandernevsky #prince #russianhistory #russianhistorymuseum #russianprince #miniature #birthday #jordanville #saint #russiansaints #александрневский #князь #русскаяистория #миниатюра

Thanks to the @observer_dispatch and #timestelegra

Thanks to the @observer_dispatch and #timestelegram for featuring our Museum, our loan to @tsarskoe_selo, and our tours and online programs! #newspaper #newstory #frontpage #russianhistorymuseum #jordanville #museumtours

This watercolor chronicles the daily life of praye

This watercolor chronicles the daily life of prayer and obedience of the St. Job Brotherhood in Ladomirovo in present-day Slovakia. With printing of religious books forcibly terminated by the Bolsheviks in Russia and limited opportunities to publish such material abroad, the brotherhood took on the mammoth task of printing spiritual literature and liturgical books for the Orthodox of the entire Russian diaspora. The print shop of St. Job of Pochaev sustained Orthodox liturgical printing throughout many decades of persecutions of Christians in Russia. It printed all major liturgical and theological texts and publications of popular piety.

This artistic rendering of the Ladomirovo monastery by Father Kiprian (Pijoff), a member of the Brotherhood, shows the monastic activities of the community in the 1930s.

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The Vladimir Mother of God The Vladimir Icon is o

The Vladimir Mother of God

The Vladimir Icon is one of the most revered icons of the Mother of God in Russia. Brought from Byzantium in the early 12th century, and kept for two hundred years in the city of Vladimir, it is credited with numerous miracles.
The feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was established in 1521 to commemorate the saving of Moscow from an invasion by the Tatar hordes. As the Tatars were approaching Moscow it is said that visions appeared simultaneously to a certain pious blind nun, the blessed Moscow Saint Vassili, and the Tatar Khan himself that the city of Moscow would be saved through the intercessions of the Mother of God. The Tatars fled in fear, and the capital of Moscow was saved.

This 19th-century rendition of the Vladimir icon from the museum's collection is bordered by figures of the twelve Apostles. In the bottom right are St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Evdokiia – probably the patron saints of the people who commissioned this icon.

Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God and the Apostles with Saints Alexander Nevsky and Evdokiia
Moscow, early 19th c.
Tempera, gesso, gold leaf, wood, silver
Russian History Museum

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Battle of Borodino! The Battle of Borodino, fough

Battle of Borodino!

The Battle of Borodino, fought on this day in 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and the Napoleonic Wars. Involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties, this battle marked a turning point in Napoleon’s Russian campaign and in his fortunes in general.

This print depicts the painting of 1843 by Peter Von Hesse of the Battle of Borodino from the Russian side, now in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. It can be be considered a contrasting work to that of LeJeune (Musée du Chateau de Versailles) which portrays the battle from the French perspective.

“Bataille de Borodino”
After the original by Peter Von Hesse
Lithographic print
20th century
Russian History Museum (90.85)

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