Today at the Museum in Moscow opened an exhibition showing the history of cultural and family ties between Russia and France

Today, September 3, in the Museum exhibition opens in Moscow «Moscow-Paris. Wreath destiny », reflecting the history of cultural and family ties between Russia and France. It is timed to the Year of Russia in France and the year of France in Russia.

material from its collections have provided the Museum of Moscow, the Museum of the Bolshoi Theater, presented documents from the private archives of the descendants of French emigres living in Moscow.

During the reign of Catherine II in Moscow actively invited French architects, artists and painters, and in the homes of Russian aristocracy appeared French tutors, teachers, doctors. After the War of 1812 in Russia were left to live many French soldiers and officers. One of them was the artist Auguste Jean-Baptiste Antoine Kadol, in which, created in 1820-1829, respectively, reflect the grandeur of rebirth from the ashes of the city. The museum in Moscow are lithographs of his albums with views of Moscow, watercolors. Visitors can also see some works by the artist: fragments of a panorama of Moscow, «Tverskaya Boulevard», «Walking in the Alexander Gardens».

The exhibition presents works of art, portraits, photographs and materials from the family archives of famous French names and dynasties, which in Moscow for three centuries, have played a significant role in politics, economics, arts and culture, most notably They Lancere , Benoit . Great contribution to the development of Russia's industry had made the French family: Armand, Brocard, Catoire.

special section is devoted Frenchwomen - the wives of the Decembrists, among them - Pauline Gebl (PE Annenkov), Catherine Lavalle (Trubetskaia) and Camille Le Dante (KP Ivashev).

a significant role in the life of the French colony in Russia played the church of St. Louis in Moscow. In 1861, by private donations with the church opened St. Philip's School for Boys. Now in this building is named after French Lycée Alexandre Dumas - an educational institution at the Embassy of France in Moscow.

The exhibition includes the archives of the French names Testeven, Dell, Dubuque, Solyus, Gauthier, Kurtener and others. Current members of these families - Muscovites are no longer in the first generation: their ancestors at different times came from France to Russia.

exhibition at the Museum of Moscow (New Square, 12) is open to the public from 4 September.

Source: mosmuseum.ru