The exhibition “Russian tile” in the Novodevichy Convent (1980–1998). From the history of the exhibiting of architectural ceramics collection of the State Historical Museum
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-7-139-159
Abstract
This article analyzes the monographic exhibition project devoted to Russian tile art implemented in the State Historical Museum. The exhibition was opened in 1980 in the halls of the Choir Hall of the Moscow Novodevichy Convent which at that time has been a branch of the SHM. About two thousand tiles most of which belong to the Historical Museum, and also about fifty other objects of decorative and applied art from the SHM funds and about a hundred slides were presented at the exhibition.
The author examines unpublished archives of the Department of Ceramics and Glass, of the Department of Written Sources and of the Department of Accounting of the Historical Museum and the real monuments from the fund of tiles of the SHM, provides a characterization of approaches to the exhibition of the tiles.
The author concludes that the exhibition “Russian tile” is a significant stage in the history of the formation of ideas about the tile as a subject for exhibiting as a result of research. The concept of the exhibition, aimed at showing the tile as works of decorative and applied art is relevant to its time and provides opportunities for further study and exposure of the Russian tiles based on a modern approach to this as a historical source.
About the Author
N. I. Iordanskaya
State Historical Museum
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda I. Iordanskaya
1, Red Sq., Moscow, 109012
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Iordanskaya N.I. The exhibition “Russian tile” in the Novodevichy Convent (1980–1998). From the history of the exhibiting of architectural ceramics collection of the State Historical Museum. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(7):139-159. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-7-139-159
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