In a small Russian town with only 40 thousand inhabitants, more than one and a half dozen museums are open. This fact surprises all his guests. The oldest museum "Boat of Peter I" was created in 1803, and the youngest museum collection opened in 2014. To prevent guests from getting lost, at the entrance to the city from the capital, a traffic sign was specially installed for all museums of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Historical-architectural and art museum-reserve
Entrance to the museum
This is the largest city museum, created almost a century ago. Thanks to the efforts of the famous historian M.I. Smirnov, it managed to preserve many works of art and ancient church relics that the Soviet government confiscated from noble estates and churches.
The collection includes more than 80 thousand storage units - ancient icons and paintings, wooden sculpture and things belonging to famous people, who lived in Pereslavl-Zalessky. Of great interest is the section with exhibits telling about the nature of the region.
The museum is located on the territory of the Goritsky Monastery. And due to the fact that this monastery was recently returned Orthodox Church and is now being actively restored; probably, other premises will be found for the museum collection.
Opening hours
From May to September - from 10.00 to 18.00. From October to April - from 10.00 to 17.00. Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, per. Museum, 4
Museum-Estate “Boat of Peter I”
On the territory of the Estate Museum
The oldest city museum, created in the very early XIX century. A wooden boat is stored in the main building. It was built by Peter I himself for the “amusing” fleet that the emperor created on Lake Pleshcheyevo. The White Palace on the territory of the estate presents a historical exhibition telling about the history of the birth of Russian shipbuilding. And the Rotunda Hall exhibits changing thematic exhibitions throughout the year.
Opening hours
From May to September - from 10.00 to 18.00, on Saturdays from 10.00 to 20.00. From October to April - from 10.00 to 17.00. Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl district, village Veskovo, 3 km from Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Steam Locomotive Museum
One of the exhibits at the Steam Locomotive Museum
The only one Russian Museum, dedicated to the history of narrow-gauge roads, which contains working full-scale examples of old railway and automobile equipment. These are steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, locomotives, carriages, trolleys, self-propelled railcars and station equipment, as well as cars and trucks. The oldest exhibits in the collection are railway equipment produced at Russian and German factories in late XIX century. Some of the equipment is in working condition. And you can even make a kilometer-long trip on a manual trolley.
Opening hours
From 10.00 to 18.00. Days off are Monday and Tuesday.
Address
Preslavsky district, village Talitsy, st. Leskhoznaya, 1. 18 km from Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Teapot Museum
View of the entrance to the Teapot Museum
Interesting private collection of teapots, samovars and items used for tea drinking, as well as items everyday life XIX-XX centuries.
Opening hours
From May to September - daily from 10.00 to 18.00. From October to April - on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.00 to 18.00. Monday and Tuesday are days off.
Address
Pereslavl district, village Veskovo, st. Peter I, 17.
Iron Museum
View of the Iron Museum from Sovetskaya Street
A small private, very interesting collection, where you can see irons from 10 g to 12 kg, from coal to electric. The museum tells how ironing devices have changed over time and what heating technologies were used.
Opening hours
Every day from 10.00 to 18.00.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Sovetskaya, 11.
Dendrological Garden named after. S.F. Kharitonov
On the territory of the Dendrological Garden
A picturesque collection of shrubs and trees from all continents, as well as a nursery of tree and fruit and berry crops is a real decoration of Pereslavl-Zalessky. Walking through the arboretum is a great pleasure. It has a large, well-kept area, designed as a landscape park.
Opening hours
From May to October, seven days a week from 10.00 to 20.00.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Zhuravleva, 1B.
Museum of Cunning and Ingenuity
Previously, this collection was called the Museum of Crafts. It contains items of everyday life that were used by peasants and city dwellers for two last centuries: furniture, kitchen utensils and dishes, as well as various household appliances. Unusual cups made for mustachioed people, intricate nut crackers, prototypes of modern food processors and antique bottle openers are on display here.
Opening hours
On weekdays from 10.00 to 17.00, on holidays from 10.00 to 18.00. Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Sovetskaya, 14B
Museum of Antique Sewing Machines
A private collection featuring antique sewing machines, including children's ones. A variety of tailor's scissors and textile utensils are also exhibited here.
Opening hours
From 9.30 to 18.00, seven days a week.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Kardovsky, 23.
Radio Museum
A private collection telling the history of radio. Tube receivers produced in the USSR and other countries in the middle of the last century are on display. In the museum you can see the conditions under which the radio mechanic worked and what he used. Samples of radio units and repeaters, filming and film projection equipment of the last century are also exhibited here. Museum staff conduct master classes for radio amateurs.
Opening hours
From 10.00 to 18.00, except Mondays.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Podgornaya, 40.
Alexander Nevsky Museum
A private museum dedicated to the life of the blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky opened in Pereslavl-Zalessky in 2012 next to the Goritsky Monastery. Some rare museum exhibits are over 700 years old. This is military chain mail, coins and ancient icons with the face of a prince. The constant interest of visitors is aroused by the model of Pereslavl from the time of Alexander Nevsky, as well as the costumes of Russian soldiers, Teutonic knights and Tatar-Mongols.
Opening hours
From 10.00 to 17.00, Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, Museum lane, 9.
Museum of the History of Money
The collection of this museum contains coins and paper banknotes from ancient times to today. Pre-coin forms of money, awards of the USSR, Russia and other countries are also presented here. An excellent addition to the main collection were old children's toys and piggy banks, adding machines from the beginning of the last century and samples of food cards.
Opening hours
From March to September - daily from 10.00 to 18.00. From October to February - on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.00 to 18.00.
Address
Pereslavl district, village Veskovo, st. Peter I, 2B.
Museum of Gramophones and Records
IN private collection dedicated to the history of world phonography, more than two hundred exhibits have been collected. These are gramophones, gramophones, music boxes and more modern electric players. The museum's collection of domestic and foreign records is impressive. In the exhibition you can see both factory and homemade plates made on X-ray photographs and large-format photographic film. Visitors love that they can even listen to their sound.
Opening hours
From May to September - daily from 10.00 to 18.00. From October to April - on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.00 to 18.00.
Address
Pereslavl district, village Veskovo, st. Peter I, 77.
Museum-shop-workshop “Nakhodka”
The museum is very interesting, first of all, for children, because all the exhibits can be touched, measured and used in action. The collection includes more than 500 items of original work and musical instruments. The organizers of the master classes held here will help you learn how to make stained glass, sew and draw.
Opening hours
From 11.00 to 19.00, Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl district, village Veskovo, st. Peter I, 65.
Museum "Berendey's House"
The unusual museum is located in a high, picturesque wooden tower and is considered a center where folk traditions and crafts. Many folklore festivals and song programs are held here. During the master classes, everyone can be taught artistic wood painting and souvenir making.
Opening hours
From 10.00 to 18.00.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Uritskogo, 38
Museum of Russian Vases
The museum exhibition is housed in an old brick house from the beginning of the past. A variety of vases, jugs, jars and fancy-shaped bottles made in the 18th – early 20th centuries are on display here. Museum employees conduct master classes where they teach painting on dishes.
Opening hours
From May to August - daily from 11.00 to 17.00. From September to April - on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11.00 to 16.00.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Kardovskogo, 31
Cultural and Exhibition Center “On Rostovskaya”
The old mansion on Rostovskaya Street is a venue for festivals, art and thematic exhibitions for residents and guests of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Opening hours
From May to September – from 10.00 to 18.00. From October to April – from 10.00 to 17.00. Monday is a day off.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Rostovskaya, 10.
Artist's House
Exhibition exposition artwork in the city they call it “Little Tretyakov Gallery”. The ancient log house presents talented paintings and graphic works of Pereslavl artists and masters of brushes from other Russian cities. In addition, here you can see a Russian stove with tiles, an old chest, a mandolin and furniture from the beginning and middle of the last century - the unforgettable spirit of a bygone era.
Opening hours
From 11.00 to 18.00, except Monday and Tuesday.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Uritsky, 36.
Historical and cultural center "Russian Park"
So far this is the youngest museum complex of Pereslavl-Zalessky, which received its first guests in the summer of 2014. “Russian Park” occupies a large area of 10 hectares, where there are street exhibitions, six unique museums, a horse yard, interactive areas and the “Vendace” tavern.
Exhibition under open air consists of several alleys and exhibitions. Here you can see examples of Russian fonts and Russian flags used since the 9th century. Interesting street exhibitions included an exhibition of carved window frames, street posters and the Glade, where the figures of Russian heroes “live” folk tales. On the territory of the park it is also interesting to take part in master classes conducted by professional artisans on making souvenirs, toys and dolls, decoupage, modeling from dough and clay, etc.
Opening hours
The park is open daily from 10.00 to 19.00. Museums are open on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00, on Friday and Saturday from 10.00 to 19.00. Days off are Monday and Tuesday.
Address
Pereslavl-Zalessky, st. Moskovskaya, 158.
Museum "Kingdom of Vendace"
One of the new museums in Pereslavl is dedicated to the famous vendace, which is found in Lake Pleshcheyevo. Many legends are associated with the unique fish, and its image adorns the coat of arms of the ancient city. During the excursion, tourists are told why vendace is called the “royal herring”, how in the old days they caught fish, salted it and prepared it. Guides introduce guests to interesting facts about the legendary Lake Pleshcheyevo and offer to taste vendace. If desired, tourists can take part in a master class on gingerbread painting.
My attitude towards provincial local history museums is complex. Most often they are poor, quite sparse in exhibits and very similar to each other. Therefore, in the outback lately we walk extremely rare in them. Why waste time if one essentially duplicates the other?
Pereslavl Museum-Reserve became a pleasant exception in this regard. Very good museum, interesting. There is a lot to see and explore here. There are many worthy exhibits, there are also masterpieces, a well-selected diverse collection of ancient Russian art of the 15th-18th centuries. (icons) and Russian painting.
When I walked through the halls of the museum, I already knew that I would definitely write about it.
First of all, I really want to show you everything I saw. Show in detail, because there is such an opportunity. Here you are allowed to take photographs in all rooms.
Secondly, I would like to invite you to visit here in person. The Pereslavl Museum-Reserve is located on the territory of the former Goritsky Monastery. There is a special atmosphere here, and everything is perceived differently.
Do you agree that museums located on the territory of monasteries, kremlins and other historical places are special? I read that by 2018 the monastery will be transferred to the church. Recently I heard the same news about the Ryazan Kremlin. My attitude towards this is complex. On the one hand, the temple in which the museum is located causes internal pain. Especially when it is in a deplorable state. Unfortunately, this is the case at the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve. On the other hand, I like that I can just buy a ticket and watch the ancient architecture in peace. There are already enough monasteries in Pereslavl-Zalessky; from some they kick out those who come without a skirt, in a very rude manner. It seems that history (and monasteries are our history) is only for the elite. 
However, I have deviated from the topic. Now you can come to Goritsky Monastery, within whose walls the museum is located, with a calm heart. Buy tickets and go as much as you want. If you have any questions, please contact the caretakers. Rarely in any museum have I seen more pleasant, open, hospitable caretakers than in the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve (well, if only in the Museum-Reserve in Yuryev-Polsky, which, like this one, is in a dire situation on the territory). Caretakers are the face of the museum. They also play a role in the impression that the museum ultimately has on visitors.
So, the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve is located in the former Dormition Goritsky Monastery. I talked about its history and architecture in detail in the article. Therefore, today I will show you museum displays and exhibitions. They are located in several buildings of the monastery: the Refectory Chamber and the building of the Theological School, All Saints Church and St. Nicholas Gate Church. We visited them all. I present to you my photographs.
The first place we went was the museum, located in the Refectory and in the building of the Theological School. Here they are in the photo below.
The buildings are beautiful, but their condition leaves much to be desired.
The museum is almost 100 years old. It feels like the sign on the museum is not much older.
Iconography XV - XVIII centuries.
All the icons of the museum were collected in the first years of Soviet power from destroyed churches and monasteries. These are unique examples of Pereslavl icon painting. Pereslavl-Zalessky was one of the centers of icon painting, part of the Rostov-Suzdal school.
The icons in the photo below are from the Fedorovsky Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky. The icons are very old - 16th century, unique. "Hodegetria", "Trinity", "Fedor Stratilates", "Nicholas".
On the wall on the left is the first icon of the apostles Peter and Paul (XV century). On the wall on the right - “John Chrysostom”, “He rejoices in you”, “Hodegetria” (XVI century).
The royal doors of the unpreserved Vvedensky Church, which stood at the mouth of the Trubezh River opposite the Church of the Forty Martyrs. This is a real masterpiece openwork carving on wood.
Russian painting XVIII - XX centuries.
Next exhibition - painting XVIII- XIX also leaves very pleasant experience. The museum was replenished with these paintings in the first years of Soviet power, when the ancient noble estates were “freed” of everything valuable. The museum's collection is of great artistic and historical value. There are paintings by Shishkin, Polenov, Korovin, Makovsky, Benois, Semiradsky, Dubovsky and others. The basis of this exhibition was the collection of the merchant Sveshnikov.
These paintings (1844) depict the children of one family - the Temerins - Nikolai, Alexandra, Peter. Author - Pavel Kolendas.
There are also paintings by unknown artists.
Henryk Semiradsky "Dangerous Lesson".
Konstantin Makovsky "Children".
Memorial exhibition of F.I. Chaliapin
In the Pereslavl forests great singer Fyodor Chaliapin built himself a dacha, he was so captivated by the beauty of the local nature. The museum has a small exhibition dedicated to Chaliapin. All items are original, provided to the museum by the singer’s daughter.
A few more exhibits.
Wooden sculpture and carving of the 16th - 19th centuries.
Christ in prison.
Folk art
Exhibition "Pereslavl. One Hundred Years Ago"
I really liked the exhibition dedicated to the history of Pereslavl and its inhabitants.
Brink of War
Funeral notice.
Before leaving this museum building I took this picture. It will come in handy.
Exhibition "Wreath for Estates: First Arrivals of the Pereslavl Museum"
Paintings from the Samsonovs' estate in Bektyshevo, Pereslavl district.
Pereslavl-Zalessky Museum-Reserve - state historical, architectural and art museum, established at the beginning of the 20th century on the territory of the former Goritsky Assumption Monastery. One of the most big museums located in Russian outback. The museum's holdings include more than 80 thousand exhibits.
About the history and exhibitions of the museum
At the beginning of 1918, the Pereslavl Theological School, located in the former buildings, was abolished, and already in May 1919, the monastery complex was given the status of the Pereslavl Museum of Local Lore. The founder and first director of the museum was the Russian historian Mikhail Ivanovich Smirnov, a researcher of the Pereslavl region, who did a lot to ensure that the museum opened to visitors soon after its founding.
The first exhibitions of the local history museum were located in 8 halls of the former religious school and were dedicated to the history of the region. There was an art and household department, which displayed things and household items confiscated from noble estates and church valuables from closed Pereslavl monasteries and churches, and also functioned art gallery, works of painting for which were specially brought from.
In 1922, the museum was reorganized, as a result of which other departments appeared - art with works by the Wanderers, cultural and historical with collections of samples of local flora and fauna. A meteorological station and a natural history laboratory began to function, as well as a library with more than 16 thousand volumes.
A year later, a church department appeared in the museum, and after some time - socio-economic and archaeological departments and a Lenin corner.
For history buffs and in order to attract new visitors, the museum was well organized educational work- local history clubs were open to everyone, there was a lecture hall, and all kinds of conferences were held. Members of the scientific and educational society created at the museum in 1919 spoke at these events. Large-scale research papers the first director M.I. Smirnov formed the basis for printed materials about the region published by the museum from 1927 to the early 1930s.
Created with the aim of studying and preserving cultural and historical monuments of the Pereslavl region, in the early 1930s the museum underwent dramatic changes. Instead of scientific research work, his main focus became political and educational activities. In 1930, M.I. Smirnov was arrested and convicted, and Konstantin Ivanovich Ivanov was appointed the new director of the museum, who worked in this position for 40 years (from 1930 to 1970).
In accordance with the new goals, the exhibition areas were completely reorganized - departments of socialist construction, nature and productive forces, historical-revolutionary, anti-religious, history of the development of social formations and art appeared. The museum staff conducted field trips art exhibitions, presenting paintings by Pereslavl artists and accompanied by stories about the eventful history.
A museum and local history council worked on a permanent basis at the museum, which included not only full-time employees, but also local historians - teachers, land managers, bibliographers. Museum workers a series of photographs dedicated to historical monuments, architecture and picturesque corners of local nature was printed, and the director of the museum, K. I. Ivanov, compiled a “Guide to the Pereslavl Territory”.
In 1950, the museum hall dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, and in 1958 the nature department opened. Paintings by the Honored Artist of the RSFSR D.N. Kardovsky, his wife and students were displayed in the art halls, various exhibitions were held, departments of nature and history of the region, an art gallery and a department of the history of the Soviet period were working.
In February 1959 local history museum was reorganized into a historical, architectural and art museum-reserve and its collections were replenished with works of painting from republican funds, and over time - samples of wooden sculpture of the 15th-19th centuries, facial and ornamental embroidery of the 16th-18th centuries, collections of tempera painting, icons, ceramics, graphics, glass, numismatics, photographic materials, weapons, cult and household metal, early printed books and documents.
Currently, the museum’s exhibitions are housed in the buildings of a former monastery and number more than 80 thousand exhibits; there are departments: accounting and storage, research and exhibition work, excursion and tourism, scientific information, museum pedagogy, there is a scientific library. In one of the wooden chapels at the entrance to the museum territory there is a ticket office.
A cultural and exhibition center has been opened on Rostovskaya Street, 10, and the branches of the museum are the museum-estate “Botik of Peter I”, located in the village of Veskovo, the museum-estate of the Ganshins in the village of Gorki and in Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Researchers The museum hosts excursions, art lectures, series of classes and interactive lessons for different age groups schoolchildren about the history and natural features of the region, about art Ancient Rus', about the life of peasants of the 19th - early 20th centuries, as well as the holidays “A Christmas Tale”, “Madame Maslenitsa”, “Night at the Museum” and excursion and art programs. The exhibition halls host permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Information for visitors
- The museum-reserve is located on the territory of the Goritsky Assumption Monastery at the address: , Pereslavl-Zalessky, Muzeinny Lane, 4.
- You can get to Pereslavl-Zalessky from Moscow by bus (bus stations near the Shchelkovskaya, Prospekt Mira and VDNH metro stations), then around the city by bus No. 1 to the Museum stop.
- The museum is open daily from 10.00 to 17.00 in the winter (from October 1 to April 30) and from 10.00 to 18.00 in the summer (from May 1 to September 30). On Monday the exhibitions are closed, but the territory itself is available for visits. The last Tuesday of the month is sanitary day. It is important to know that the museum is closed on January 1.
- All questions regarding ordering excursions or ticket prices can be clarified by calling the numbers listed on the official website of the museum-reserve.
The history of the reserve begins in 1919. By this time, the monastery had been abandoned for a century and a half and was gradually being destroyed. So the Bolsheviks to some extent saved his buildings. I was also lucky with the director. Mikhail Ivanovich Smirnov, a local historian, the son of a local priest, was put in charge. He looked for the first exhibits for the museum in deserted noble estates.
One day Smirnov went to the village of Gagarinskaya Novoselka. There, in a small outbuilding of what was once a manor house, three women lived - Princess Natalya Gagarina and her daughters. The labor commune “Molot” settled in the house itself. When Smirnov came in, he saw the Red Guards cutting herring right on the table. And the table was not simple - made of 600 Karelian birch knots, selected according to size and glued together. The Red Guards did not resist and gave Smirnov the table, which is now kept in the museum.
Another time he came to one of the villages. There was a wide stream there, and… tombstones served as a bridge across it. Together with the peasants, they were transported to the museum. On the slabs are dates of death, mostly dating back to the first half of the 19th century.
In the Nagorsk executive committee, Smirnov found a mammoth bone that was kept in the archives of the zemstvo chief.
And once the museum employees were almost beaten. They transported weapons to the exhibition halls. Everyone was in work clothes, and the procession was mistaken for a peasant uprising.
This is how the richest collection began, which now numbers more than 90 thousand exhibits. This is one of the largest museum complexes Russia, with several branches - the estate "Botik of Peter I", the estate of the Ganshins, the Transfiguration Cathedral of the 12th century.
Without exaggeration, treasures are stored here. Collections of Russian icons, paintings, wooden carved sculptures, rare books...
However, there was a time when all these spiritual artifacts did not suit the Soviet government. She demanded ideological artifacts, the director had to somehow get out. For example, the artist Dmitry Kardovsky helped him in this. In 1926, having received a horse and cart from the Pereslavl regional executive committee, they went to Gorki to make sketches of the manor house. After staying there all day, Kardovsky created several sketches. This is how the famous soviet painting"IN. I. Lenin in Gorki, Pereslavl district.” It is still in the museum today.
Since 1929, the vector of museum development has been officially changed - from scientific research to political and educational. Directors are also changed. Instead of Mikhail Smirnov, Konstantin Ivanov, a worker from the Red Echo factory, is appointed. Two years later he will report: “We have turned the museum into a real forge of proletarian culture, into a cultural complex.” Here are the names of some departments of that time: “Nature and productive forces”, “Socialist construction”, “Anti-religious department” (within the walls of an ancient monastery!)
Today, everything proletarian has become history and is remembered only with a smile. Some more time will pass, and perhaps they will also remember with a smile that a museum in our country was once located within the walls of a holy monastery. It is planned that the Pereslavl Reserve will soon leave the walls of the Goritsky Monastery and monastic life will be revived here.
In the meantime, the exhibition halls are operating as usual; all information about exhibitions and excursions can be found on the official website of the museum-reserve.
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The Pereslavl Museum-Reserve is located in the Yaroslavl region. It was founded in the middle of the 18th century in the buildings of a former monastery. The article outlines the history of the Pereslavl-Zalessky Museum-Reserve, and also talks about the monuments that are located on its territory.
Goritsky Monastery
In the 14th century, a monastery was built on the territory of the modern Pereslavl Museum-Reserve. Little historical information has been preserved about him. It is known that in the Middle Ages he owned the villages of Voskresenskoye, Ermolovo, Kruzhkovo, Ilyinskoye and others. In the twenties of the 18th century there was a fire in which the archive burned down. In the fifteenth century, Saint Daniel, the founder of the Holy Trinity Monastery, served in this monastery for thirty years. There is no other information about this temple. In 1744 it was closed and converted into the estate of the then bishop. Forty years later, the estate was closed.
For many decades, the former monastery was in a deplorable state. The huge area was overgrown with grass and covered with piles of garbage. Among the objects that are part of the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve, only the gate, the southern fence and the Church of All Saints are classified as XVII century. However, the temple underwent complete reconstruction and lost its original appearance.
Foundation of the museum
The collection of collections for the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve began several months before its opening, which occurred in 1919.
In the 1920s they were brought to the museum artistic values, which were once located in estates and monasteries. During this period, everything that belonged to the temples was nationalized. A few years after the revolution, the museum also received a collection of paintings confiscated from the merchant Sveshnikov. The opening date of the museum-reserve is May 28. The art gallery, local history and art departments were located in the building of the former religious school, which was located on the territory of a simplified monastery. This educational institution was closed under Catherine II.
In the early thirties, the local history movement ceased to fit into official ideology. The corresponding departments in the museum-reserve were closed. Many local history specialists were sent into exile. M. Smirnov, an employee of the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve, did not escape this fate.
The museum center has performed political and educational functions for many years. Was appointed new director, who previously worked as an ordinary worker at the Red Echo factory and had no knowledge of either history or local history. In one of the reports on the work of the museum, he called this complex, which previously included valuable works of art, "the forge of proletarian art." What the director meant by this phrase is unknown, but for many years The museum, like other institutions in the Soviet Union, was an instrument of ideological propaganda.
The heyday of the Pereslavl-Zalessky Museum-Reserve during the Soviet period occurred in the fifties. Traveling exhibitions were organized in clubs and libraries of the city, where samples were shown exclusively Soviet art, stored in the reserve. During these years, the museum's collection is replenished with new exhibitions that fully correspond to the spirit of the times.
Some time on the territory of Pereslavl-Zalessky state museum There was a photo exhibition. In addition, a series of postcards was issued, intended primarily for guests of the city. The photographs depicted picturesque Pereslavl landscapes and ancient architectural monuments.
Today there is a huge apple orchard on the territory of the reserve. It was founded by museum employees in the fifties. This event, of course, pursued more than just aesthetic goals. Quite rare frost-resistant varieties of pears and apples grew here. Every year, museum staff collected several hundred kilograms of fruit.
After the end of the war, a new hall was opened in the museum-reserve, dedicated to the participants of the Second World War. Portraits of Budyonny, Stalin, Vasilevsky, and Konev were placed on the walls. However, they did not hang here for long. A year after the opening of the hall dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, the museum-reserve accepted a donation of a collection of paintings by one of the local artists. The number of excursions increased every year. And in 1957, the widow of Mikhail Prishvin donated the writer’s personal belongings to the reserve.
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"Silver Pantry"
The museum has many interesting exhibitions. Among the expositions it is worth mentioning the “Silver Pantry”, which contains large number works of Russian decorative and applied art. Here you can see jewelry, made back in the sixteenth century. They were miraculously saved in the twenties of the last century. The exhibition "Silver Pantry" was opened in the late eighties. And twenty years later, the collection was supplemented by works of Moscow goldsmiths and silversmiths. The cost of entry to this section of the museum is 100 rubles.
"Wreath for estates"
This exhibition is dedicated to the museum staff, thanks to whom many collections were preserved in the early twenties. Family portraits and household items that were taken from nearby estates almost 100 years ago are kept here. Most of the collection was preserved thanks to the first museum workers - Smirnov and Elkhovsky. The price for this room is also 100 rubles.
"Old Russian painting"
This collection includes works of painting created in the 15th to 19th centuries. It is worth emphasizing once again that most of the cultural monuments that museum visitors can see today have been preserved thanks to a small number of enthusiasts, professional art historians and amateurs who saved at their own risk valuable exhibits in the early 20s.
Pereslavl-Zalessky in ancient times was the center of icon painting. Many craftsmen worked here, few of whose works, fortunately, have survived to this day. They painted icons not only for churches located in this city, but also for Moscow monasteries. The exhibition “Old Russian Painting” includes works created by Fedot Protopopov, as well as representatives of the Kazarinov icon-painting dynasty. Entrance - 160 rubles.
"Russian painting of the 18th-20th centuries"
The basis of this collection was laid in mid-19th centuries. It mainly consists of works of painting owned by the merchant Sveshnikov. Namely, paintings by Shishkin, Kamenev, Dubovsky, Polenov. According to reviews of the Pereslavl-Zalessky Museum-Reserve, this exhibition is one of the most interesting. Moreover, visitors assure that not only paintings by famous artists are worthy of attention, but also works related to the genre of provincial portraiture, created in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cost of entry to this hall is 160 rubles.
Branches
Today, more than eighty exhibits are collected here. Exhibitions dedicated to icon painting have been opened wooden sculpture, Russian painting. Address of the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve: Museum Lane, building 4. One of exhibition halls is located on Rostovskaya Street, at house 10. The museum includes the Transfiguration Cathedral, the Ganshin Museum-Estate, the Peter I Boat Museum-Estate, and the Kardovsky Art Gallery.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral
In the northeastern part of Russia, among the white stone monuments, this temple is the oldest. The thickness of the walls is about one meter. The appearance of this one-domed temple is quite restrained and strict. The history of the Transfiguration Cathedral begins in mid-XII century. Then it was painted with frescoes. Probably had a more festive appearance. But during the restoration carried out in the 90s of the 19th century, the frescoes were removed and placed in a box. There they were stored for many years in absolute disarray.
From a historical point of view, this cathedral is quite interesting. And not only because it is one of the most ancient white stone temples. Many princes were baptized here, including Alexander Nevsky, who, as you know, was born in Pereslavl.
Boat of Peter I
According to one version, this museum is the oldest in Russia. It is a branch of the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve and is located in the village of Veskovo. At the end of the 17th century, Peter I founded a shipyard on the territory of the future museum. Boats for sailing on Lake Pleshcheyevo were built here. The opening of the flotilla was accompanied by a grand celebration. This event was the first step towards the creation of a fleet. The ships, unfortunately, did not survive. The only boot made by the Tsar himself has survived to this day.
Ganshin Estate Museum
Here once was the estate of representatives of a famous merchant family in Pereslavl. But the building became famous thanks to Vladimir Lenin, who created his next opus here. In 1894, the future revolutionary here reflected on the fate of the proletariat. And sixty years later, employees of one of the local factories installed a memorial plaque on the estate. In the early nineties, like other museums, the estate was closed. Serious restoration work was required, which was planned local authorities were not included. Museum exhibits preserved thanks to a small number of enthusiasts.