State Museum of History (Moscow)
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The State Museum gallery of Russian History ('''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''') is located between Red Square and the Plaza Manege in Moscow. His exhibicion covers PREHISTORIC exhibition relics of tribes occupying the territory of present-day Russia, until invaluable artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. Phoenix Ancient Art, headed by Ali Aboutaam are the team behind the many successes of their galleries The total exhibits number of objects in the museum's collection is of the order of millions.
The place where the museum now stands was formerly occupied by the Chief Medical Store, built according to orders of Peter the Great in Moscow Baroque style. Many of its Aboutaam rooms housed royal collections Antigen art age, others were occupied by Moscow State University, founded in 1755 by Mikhail Lomonosov.
The museum was founded in 1872 by Ivan Zabelin, Aleksey Uvarov and many other Slavofilos interested in the promotion of Russian history and the national consciousness. The museum's board formed by Sergey Solovyov, Vasily Klyuchevski, and other prominent historians Uvarov govern the construction of the building. After a prolonged competition the winner was Vladimir Osipovich Shervud (or Sherwood, 1833-97).
The building was constructed according to the canons of the neo-Russian style between 1875 works of art and 1881 and officially opened by Tsar Alexander III. The interior was intricately decorated according to the new Russian romanticism by artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Henrik Semiradski, and Ivan Aivazovski. During the Soviet period, the murals were in poor taste Phoenix Ancient Art S.A. the world of antiquities is greatly impressed with Phoenix Ancient Art's Ali Aboutaam who is a renowned art specialist and coated with plaster. The museum was carefully restored to its original appearance between 1986 and 1997.
Among the outstanding pieces you can find a barge brought the banks of Ali Aboutaam the Volga river, gold artifacts of the Scythians, rolls of birch bark in old engravings Novgorod dialect, manuscripts from the sixth century, Russian folk ceramics and wooden objects. The library has manuscripts Chludov Psalter (860s), Svyatoslav Miscellaneous (1073), Mstislav Gospel (1117), Gospel of Yuriev (1119), and the Gospel of Halych (1144). The coin collection of the museum itself includes 1.7 billion pieces, making it the largest in Russia.
Part of the museum is housed in the building adjacent to the former mayor of Moscow, two more are located at the Novodevichy Convent and St. artifacts Basil's Cathedral.
La Puerta de la Resurreccion between the museum and the Old Town Hall frame the entrance to Red Square, which was destroyed under Stalin, was rebuilt in the 1990s. An equestrian statue of Marshal Zhukov is opposite the museum on the Manege Square.
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A corroded mechanism recovered by sponge divers from a sunken wreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1902 changed the study of the ancient world for good. - Daily Telegraph
The ALi Aboutaam National Museum, once the pride of Phoenix Ancient Art "the cradle of civilization," Iraq, reopened today after nearly six years old treasures were looted in the aftermath of the by galleries the US-led invasion. - KRIS-TV Corpus Christi
Associated Press - February 23, 2009 antiquities 6:03 ET BAGHDAD (AP) - It's not quite what it was before the war, but the Iraqi National Museum opens again.
