The Vladimir-Suzdal Historical, Art and Architectural Museum-Reserve is a museum-reserve in the Vladimir Region , uniting a group of unique architectural monuments of Russian residential, defensive and church architecture. The most significant collections are collections of numismatics, archeology, Old Russian art, painting [1] .
| Vladimir-Suzdal Historical, Art and Architectural Museum-Reserve | |
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| Founding date | 1958 |
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| Address | Vladimir , Suzdal , Gus-Khrustalny , Bogolyubovo , Kideksha , Muromtsevo |
| Director | Svetlana Evgenyevna Melnikova |
| Site | The official website of the museum |
The museum-reserve includes architectural monuments located in three cities - Vladimir , Suzdal and Gus-Khrustalny and in two villages - Bogolyubovo and Kideksha , and in 2014, the museum transferred the estate of Khrapovitsky in Muromtsevo (Sudogodsky district).
History
Formed in September 1958 on the basis of two small museums in Vladimir and Suzdal . Currently one of the leading museum associations in Russia.
Composition
The museum-reserve includes 56 monuments of architecture. These are mainly monuments of Old Russian time (XII - early XVIII centuries) - church and civil, stone and wooden, separate buildings and architectural complexes. A number of monuments belong to the provincial time (late XVIII - early XX centuries). The most valuable are the monuments of white-stone architecture of the XII-XIII centuries. The museum organized 35 museum exhibitions in three cities.
Eight monuments and ensembles are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List : White-stone monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal .
Most famous staff
- Varganov, Aleksey Dmitrievich - Founder and Director until 1960;
- Aksyonova, Alisa Ivanovna - Director from 1960 to 2010, President from 2010 to 2013, Honorary President to the present;
- Plugin, Vladimir Alexandrovich - head of the department of art history in 1960-1964;
- Pokrovsky, Nikolai Nikolayevich - deputy director in 1964-1965;
- Nudelman, Rafail Ilich - editor at the end of the 1960s;
- Timofeeva, Tatyana Petrovna - Head of the Sector of Architectural Monuments Research in 1977–2018;
- Melnikova, Svetlana Evgenievna - tour guide since 1978, deputy director since 1997, director in 2010-2016 and from 2018. [2]
Information on individual monuments
Information about individual architectural monuments and their photographs can be found in the articles:
- Suzdal
- Vladimir
- Bogolyubovo
- Kideksha
- Gus-Crystal
- Muromtsevo
See also
- Vladimir culture
Notes
- ↑ Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve. Collections (Not available link) . The date of circulation is June 25, 2017. Archived July 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Team Woland" on the way out. The conflict in the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum // Radio Liberty , May 12, 2019
Literature
- Zagraevsky S.V. New Studies of Architectural Monuments of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve. - M., 2008.