On Friday the 17th of July, the 102nd anniversary of the murder of Tsar Nicholas II, his family, and those who died with them, Russian newspaper Izvestiia published an interview with Marina Molodtsova, the Senior Investigator of the Russian Federation’s Investigatory Committee concerning the [...]
On July 11, Nick Nicholson, the Russian History Museum's Director of Development and a specialist in Russian decorative art, presented a lecture on the world of Russian lacquer that existed before the revolution, lacquer work from the Soviet, and present day lacquer centers of [...]
Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce that the Russian History Museum will reopen to the public on Tuesday, July 14th! Our current exhibition, Revealing The Divine: Treasures of Russian Sacred Art, has been extended until December 31. As always, the safety of our guests, staff and [...]
The Russian History Museum is proud to announce the completion of the conservation treatment of a work in its collection, “Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane,” by the Russian-American artist Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff (b. St. Petersburg 1878 – d. New York 1945). Westchiloff studied [...]
The Russian History Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a two-year Regional Economic Development Council grant from the New York State Council on the Arts totaling $38,800. The funds will be used towards hiring a part-time Director of Development, who [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - The Russian History Museum loaned two important objects relating to Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich for the special exhibition Faberge Rediscovered at the Hillwood Museum, Estate & Gardens in Washington, DC. This is the third time the Russian History Museum partners with [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Four objects produced by the firm of Fabergé from the Russian History Museum's collection are currently on view in Unknown Fabergé: New Finds and Re-Discoveries at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, MN. The most elaborate among them is a [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Russian History Museum loaned over 160 objects, including books, documents, and museum artifacts, to the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, MN for the exhibition The Romanovs: Legacy of an Empire Lost. The exhibition is dedicated to the 400th anniversary [...]
On April 12, 2007, the State Museum "Pavlovsk", near St. Petersburg, opened an exhibition dedicated to Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanova, daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (also known as the poet "K.R."), and the 100th anniversary of her birth. Representing the Russian History [...]
