St. Petersburg is a city built in the Neva delta on numerous islands connected by magnificent bridges. The best architects from all over Europe were involved in the construction by Peter I, and the new capital truly became the main pearl in the “imperial crown”. To provide raw materials and develop trade with all countries, a huge number of merchants were attracted to St. Petersburg. Therefore, it was necessary to create retail space for them. It was then that it was decided to build Gostiny Dvor. St. Petersburg began to develop rapidly, and the issue of regulating the market reached the state level.
The idea of creating a commercial building
The city center was filled with numerous wooden shops, different in their shape and purpose. This did not fit into the strategic development plan of the capital, and after several fires in the forties of the 17th century, it was decided to move trade to the outskirts. For this purpose, an empty place was allocated with the prospect of building a large shopping complex, which is now called Gostiny Dvor. St. Petersburg, as the capital of a great empire, required large financial investments in other projects, so the construction of the commercial building dragged on for several decades. The first decree of the Senate on the transfer of trade dates back to 1735. The construction of the entirely stone building was completed in 1785.
History of the construction of Gostiny Dvor
After the merchant shops were forced out of the center, the question of streamlining trade arose, and a decision was made to build Gostiny Dvor. St. Petersburg developed at an uneven pace due to the war and lack of funding. In addition, a large number of government projects were built, where all builders were involved. Therefore, numerous imperial decrees could not move the matter forward. The order of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in 1748 changed everything. Construction costs were borne by the merchants with the subsequent transfer of trading places for lifelong patrimonial use. However, the merchants openly sabotaged this decision and in every possible way delayed the demolition of their wooden shops. Due to all these subjective and objective reasons, construction dragged on for a quarter of a century and was completed only by 1785.
Architectural solution
The Gostiny Dvor building in St. Petersburg had several projects. The first was designed by chief architect Rastrelli F.B. The project of the famous Italian involved the construction of a two-story building with a clock tower, which was to be crowned with a statue of Mercury, the god of trade. Due to the high cost and lack of government funding, the project was rejected. Other options began to be considered, and in the end the Wallen-Delamot project was adopted, which envisaged fitting the building in the shape of an irregular quadrangle into the perspective of the planned streets.
Department store "Gostiny Dvor" (St. Petersburg)
The modern shopping complex has slightly lost its original purpose, when you could buy “all sorts of things for all kinds of people.” St. Petersburg receives a huge number of tourists. When exploring the city, visitors visit the Gostiny Dvor shopping center (St. Petersburg), and most of the goods are designed specifically for them. The department store has a large selection of various glassware and earthenware. Small shops with souvenirs are modestly lost between boutiques of famous brands that offer clothes, shoes and a variety of accessories. You can also purchase a minimum set of products, alcohol and other drinks here.
Gostiny Dvor metro station
St. Petersburg could not do without the metro, and they decided to build one of the stations of the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line in the Gostiny Dvor area. The above-ground lobbies did not fit well into the established historical appearance of the city. Therefore, it was decided to build one of the lobbies into Engelhardt’s house, and the second into the Gostiny Dvor building with access to the trading floors. The work was carried out according to the design of A.K. Andreev and was finally completed in 1972.
Reconstruction of Gostiny Dvor
In 1780, almost the entire commercial building was destroyed by fire, except for the stone facade on Nevsky. Catherine II allowed merchants to build temporary wooden shops “so as not to stop trading.” From that moment on, by imperial decree, the construction of a completely stone building began with a ban on making “any kind of fire.” During the reconstruction, parking spaces for carriages and carts were also taken into account, so the building was shifted slightly. In 1837, after long negotiations between merchants and the authorities, Gostiny Dvor was equipped with steam heating and oil lighting. Several attempts were made to rebuild the complex and the areas in front of it, which were rejected under the pressure of traders. During the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad, the entire city center, including Gostiny Dvor, suffered. After the end of the war, restorers restored as much as possible the original appearance of this architectural monument.
The last reconstruction took place from 1955 to 1972. Without changing the historical facade, warehouses and technical communications were modernized, and elevated metro vestibules were equipped. In addition, after reconstruction, a through passage was installed along the entire perimeter of the shopping complex to make it more convenient for visitors to enter Gostiny Dvor.
St. Petersburg always welcomes its guests with something new and surprising. Visitors can not only admire the beauty of the northern capital. They can visit modern exhibitions and fashion designer shows. Then go shopping at brand stores, and Gostiny Dvor is exactly the place where you can do this pleasantly and profitably.
Size (rental area) of the shopping center: 78,000 sq. m
Owner of the shopping center "Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor": OJSC "Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor"
Today, on the second floor of the Nevsky Line of Gostiny Dvor, there is the only High Fashion Gallery in St. Petersburg, where clothes from fashion houses known and respected throughout the world are presented: Christian Lacroix, D&G, Smalto, Ferre, milano, Givenchy, M.Missoni, Just Cavalli , Kenzo and many others.
Men's and women's clothing, shoes for the middle class, accessories, goods for the home and interior, goods for artists and photographers, books and paper and chalk goods, musical instruments and records. Toys and dishes from all corners of the globe. Russian crafts and jewelry. Theater box office, flowers, sweets and alcoholic drinks. It is difficult to say whether there is anything that cannot be found at Gostiny Dvor.
ATMs, photo workshops, engraving, photocopying, pharmacy and optics, cafes, beauty salons, optics, tour packages, clothing and shoe repair, curtain sewing and framing workshop. In a word, no matter what happens to a native Petersburger, he always runs to Gostiny Dvor. Test yourself when you break your heel at the exit from the Metropol confectionery on Sadovaya Street.
This huge house, built at the turn of two centuries - the 18th and 19th - has four addresses, because its facades face two streets and two alleys. The lanes have ancient names - Rybny and Khrustalny; before, in their place there was trade in fish and glass. And the streets were called Ilyinka and Varvarka; They were the most important trade and business centers and have not lost their importance in our century. The famous Varvarka got its name in honor of the temple erected in the name of St. Barbara, the patroness of trade, in the most lively part of the city at the beginning of the 16th century by the Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin.
The area where the Old Gostiny Dvor is located became an important center of Moscow trade already in the 15th century, when merchants who had previously traded on the territory of the Kremlin settled there. For the first time, Sigismund von Herberstein, who was in Moscow in 1517 and 1526, mentions the Gostiny Dvor: “Not far from the fortress there is a large walled house, called the courtyard of the merchants, in which merchants live and store their goods.”
Gostiny Dvor was founded in the middle of the 16th century under Ivan the Terrible. By order of the Tsar, merchants from all over Moscow were resettled here, in Kitay-Gorod. At first the rows of shops were wooden, but in 1595 after a fire they were replaced with stone ones and rebuilt in 1638-41. Various monasteries received plots of land here as royal gifts to create their farmsteads. Many merchants rented shops and barns in these farmsteads.
With the increase in trade turnover, the Gostiny Dvor again became cramped, and in 1661-65 it was expanded towards Varvarka (in fact, another Gostiny Dvor was built nearby). Construction took place under the leadership of the wealthy merchant Averky Kirillov (his chambers were preserved on the right bank of the Moscow River on Bersenevskaya Embankment).
Exchange Square
In 1737, another “red rooster” walked around Moscow. He did not bypass Gostiny Dvor either; the rows were burned out. However, by that time the need for the construction of new buildings to house the goods of wealthy merchants arriving in the capital from all over the country was becoming more and more noticeable. As often happens in Rus', there would be no happiness, but misfortune would help... 1786 was followed by the Decree of Catherine II “On giving the stone Gostiny Dvor to the city to increase income for various needs.” Catherine agreed that “the Gostiny Dvor should be sold in parts to those who wished, with the obligation of the buyers that the new one be built with the same square.” In Moscow, the architect S. A. Karin drew up a project and sent it to St. Petersburg, but from there in 1789 they sent another, “which, according to Her Highest Imperial Majesty’s order, was created by the Architect Gvarengiy”: Empress Catherine II commissioned the architect Giacomo Quarenghi to draw up a project for the Gostiny Dvor within the boundaries of a large irregularly shaped block - within Ilyinka and Varvarka streets.
It was an excellent idea for a beautiful and rational organization of the quarter. Taking into account the narrowness of the streets and their inevitable traffic congestion, the author rounded the corners, skillfully incorporating wide staircases into them.
The site was cleared of old buildings, and the construction of Gostiny Dvor lasted from 1791 to 1805. Construction, with some deviations from the project, was carried out by the architects of the Moscow deanery S. Karin, I. Egotov and P. Selikhov.
Giacomo Quarenghi lived in St. Petersburg and did not take into account the slope of the ground in Kitai-Gorod, which was not reflected in the site plan sent to him. Already in Moscow, Quarenghi’s project was finalized by architects Semyon Karin and Ivan Selekhov. They built a building closed around the perimeter and decorated its galleries with semi-columns.
Quarenghi's project underwent partial changes in the process of linking it to the complex terrain; in addition, Moscow architects S. A. Karin and I. A. Selikhov (under the leadership of M. F. Kazakov) did not strictly monitor compliance with the project, and the owners built " very slowly and unevenly: one brought out both floors, the other one, whoever wanted; others tore up the ground and left it.” Construction lasted from 1791 to 1805, as a result, a courtyard building was erected along Ilyinka with turns into alleys, as well as part of the building (southwestern corner) along Varvarka. The building was damaged during the fire of 1812, but was restored and completed in 1825-30 by O. I. Bove.
In the Old Gostiny Dvor there were 760 shops, barns, and tents. Each merchant, having received a building permit, bought land and began to build his own shop. For some things went quickly, for others they were in no hurry. Instead of Corinthian-style columns designed by Quarenghi, Tuscan-style columns appeared, walls of different heights did not fit together... History has brought to us many other problems of this construction that now seem ridiculous. The large Gostiny Dvor has about 100 columns, and several times their formation is interrupted by those inscribed between the buildings. The terrain here was uneven; the difference in height between the streets, according to the directory of 1841, reached 8-10 fathoms.
It is always difficult to build up a block in the city center with one building. In 1805, after many years of protracted construction, the building was completely finished. The surviving part of the building can rightfully be classified as one of the master’s most brilliant works. Gostiny Dvor inspires respect with its monumental appearance, the endless structure of columns stretching along the facade.
Varvarka.1970 - 1979. View of the churches of Maxim the Confessor and St. Barbara, the Kremlin and Gostiny Dvor
The name of Gostiny Dvor comes from the word “Guest” - this is how merchants engaged in foreign and wholesale trade were called in the old days. In Gostiny Dvor you could buy almost everything your heart desires. Enterprising merchants hired "square" boys - barkers, who, with a sample of the product, for example, with a pair of boots around their necks, walked around Red Square, advertising the products.
Varvarka
It was in Gostiny Dvor in Moscow that traders came up with the brilliant sales of leftover goods at reduced prices, which are now practiced throughout the world. And it was like this... One day a knife line merchant was walking down the street at the end of the day, and he was stopped by a raisin peddler with an offer to buy raisins for little money. The merchant did not need the raisins at all, but the peddler did not lag behind and persuaded: “Take it, sir, there are leftovers!” It was then that the merchant had a brilliant idea to sell the remnants of various goods cheaper, and soon his shop was decorated with a sign “Sale of remnants at the cheapest prices.” There was no end to buyers, and the merchant quickly became rich. This, by the way, is where the saying “Leftovers are sweet” came from.
Very soon the discovery of the Kitaygorod merchant spread throughout Moscow. A special time was allocated for such trade - one week a year, starting from St. Thomas Sunday - the first Sunday after Easter. Even the luxurious French shops of Kuznetsky Most fell ill with “residual” fever, and one merchant came up with the idea of selling literary leftovers, organizing a sale of unsold books in his shop. True, they laughed at him well, and his business failed.
Gostiny Dvor, 1968-1971. Old Gostiny Dvor
Moscow merchants had a great sense of humor, and sometimes you could run into an exquisite joke. For example, in the busy places of Gostiny Dvor they liked to throw dead mice wrapped in paper. Passers-by, thinking that they had found someone's dropped purchase, picked up the package and joyfully ran home, and the jokers, who were watching them on the sly, were indescribably delighted. Sometimes, having agreed: “Shall we turn it red or green?”, the merchants arranged a whole joke for their buyer. When a person came to a shop and asked, for example, for blue cloth, red or green cloth was immediately laid out in front of him, depending on the established agreement, assuring him that this was the requested product. The victim of the prank went to another store, then to the next, but the same thing was repeated everywhere. In the end, the exhausted buyer, thinking that he was crazy, left Gostiny Dvor with the purchased cloth of a different color or even empty-handed. However, Moscow merchants were not only joking. For example, if a buyer refused, after all the persuasion, to buy the product on offer, they could simply slap him in the neck, hastily forgetting about the prestige of the company.
Only in 1923 did the planned comprehensive restoration of Gostiny Dvor take place. But as a shopping complex it ceased to exist. The architectural monument was filled with numerous large and small offices and institutions. Utility rooms, warehouses, and temporary huts grew like mushrooms.
Rybny Lane
Since the end of 1995, under the leadership of the Moscow Government, an active reconstruction of the Old Gostiny Dvor has been underway, as a result of which it, while remaining an architectural and historical monument and decoration of Moscow, will turn into a modern business and shopping center.
A difficult task faced the architects, who were tasked with recreating the original appearance of the Old Gostiny Dvor and adapting it to the new time. About 70% of the building's area had serious settlements, and as a result, the walls, columns and ceilings were cracked. The builders of the Transstroy Corporation were entrusted with strengthening the foundation and solving other complex technical problems. We took into account their experience in constructing tunnels, bridges...
The uniqueness of Gostiny Dvor is not only in the exclusivity of its location, but also in the originality of its artistic solutions. The project included, on the one hand, a thorough restoration of the external appearance of the building, and on the other, a complete functional re-equipment of the interior with modern engineering equipment, the management of which was implemented in accordance with the concept of an “intelligent building”. The total area of the complex is 81,600 m2, the rentable area is about 47,401 m2. The complex will house a hotel - 15,000 m2, shops, restaurants, offices, warehouses, banks, and a wide range of trading activities.
Surrounded by stucco columns and classical-style vaults, one can see a granite-paved courtyard - an atrium with an area of about 12,000 m2. It is covered with the largest light translucent coating for architectural monuments in Europe. In accordance with the functional purpose of the courtyard space, the ceiling has snow melting, climatology, condensate collection and removal systems. Its year-round temperature is 18°C.
It is planned to hold cultural events, children's parties and festivals, organize city and national holidays, international exhibitions and salons, concerts, shows, fashion shows, etc. in the courtyard. The complex opens up wide possibilities - visitors to Gostiny Dvor will be able not only to shop, but also to relax.
Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg is not only a metro station and a majestic department store building that occupies an entire block. The first Gostiny Dvors appeared almost at the same time as the founding of the city; they were destroyed and built throughout the three-century history of the Northern capital. Several such commercial buildings have survived to this day. We tell you what every St. Petersburg resident absolutely needs to know about Gostiny Dvors.
First Gostiny Dvor
The first Gostiny Dvor immediately after the founding of the city. It was located on the former Trinity Square, approximately in the place where the State Museum of Political History of Russia is now located. In 1710, the wooden market located here completely burned down. Already in 1712–1713, the first two-story mud-brick, tiled Gostiny Dvor was built in its place. Inside, there were shops on the first floor, and the second was used for storing goods. In addition, on the territory of Gostiny Dvor there was a wooden building of the Town Hall, an exchange, customs and an auction chamber. In 1737, trade in Gostiny Dvor was stopped; it began to be used as a warehouse for storing military ammunition.
Port yard on Vasilyevsky Island
In the 18th century, several Gostiny Dvors were built on the territory of St. Petersburg, almost all of them were destroyed by fires at different times. Then they decided to build such complexes from stone. The first stone trading court was built by the architect Domenico Trezzini on Vasilyevsky Island in 1722. It took 13 years to build, was a warehouse for export goods and was called Port. There were no retail shops there, since trade there was wholesale in nature. Essentially, these were vast warehouses occupying an entire block. In the early 1910s, they were dismantled and the vacated territory was built up. By chance, only a tiny part of the Old Gostiny Dvor survived. Nowadays this is house number 1 on Tiflisskaya Street. The building is currently occupied by the library collection of the Library of the Academy of Sciences.
New Gostiny Dvor on Vasilyevsky Island
At the beginning of the 19th century, on Vasilievsky Island, Giacomo Quarenghi built another two-story Gostiny Dvor with a large arcade gallery. In the 19th - early 20th centuries, this Gostiny Dvor was used mainly for trade and technical purposes, mainly as a warehouse. After the revolution until the early 1930s, the building housed warehouses for the Leningrad police. Later, the building was transferred to the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University, which began work on September 1, 1934, which is still located here today, together with the Faculty of Philosophy and the Medical College of St. Petersburg State University.
Apraksin Dvor
After the fire that occurred in 1780 and destroyed all the wooden shops located on Nevsky Prospekt, Shchukin and Apraksin courtyards and Nikolsky rows were erected on Sadovaya Street. By the middle of the 19th century, almost the entire second-hand book trade in St. Petersburg was concentrated in the Shchukin and Apraksin courtyards. By decree of Nicholas I in 1833, Apraksin and Shchukin courtyards were united into one vast market. On 24 wooden lines they traded fabrics and haberdashery, leather goods and furniture, shoes and household goods. After the fire of 1862, planned development of the territory began. The main buildings of the trading yard were erected in the 1870s–1880s. The constructed complex had not only a shopping, but also an entertainment and cultural purpose, and in addition, it fit well into the architecture of the city.
Before the First World War, the market became one of the largest in Europe in terms of wholesale trade. After the revolution, some buildings remained ownerless and were used as warehouses. During the Soviet years, Apraksin Dvor was a major commission trade center. Currently there are more than 50 buildings located here.
Nikolsky ranks
Nikolsky shopping arcades were built in 1789 on a plot of land on Sadovaya Street between Fontanka and the Krivusha River. This place was considered convenient due to the proximity of two water transport arteries: the Catherine and Kryukov canals. At first, the market was called Ochakovsky, since its construction was completed on the same day as the capture of the Turkish fortress of Ochakov by Russian troops under the leadership of A.V. Suvorov. The building was erected at the expense of a merchant society, that is, it was private. The first floor was intended for retail premises, the second floor housed offices and warehouses. All retail premises were united by an open gallery on the first floor.
In 1825, the Nikolsky market was damaged by a fire, but it was quickly restored. In the 1880s, “Obzhorny Ryad” was moved from the Sennaya Market to Nikolsky. Here, seasonal workers ate at 12–15 wooden tables under a canopy: masons, carpenters, painters, plasterers. After 1917, the building of the Nikolsky market housed a production and industrial association for the production of enamelware, in the post-war period - “Metalware”. Now the building of the former shopping arcade is in disrepair.
Gostiny (Mytny) Dvor
When the population on the Admiralty Side began to increase and trade began to concentrate here, the stone Gostiny (Mytny) Dvor was erected by architects G. I. Mattarnovi and N. F. Gerbel in 1719 on the banks of the Moika River, near the present Green Bridge. When it burned down in a fire in 1738, it was decided not to restore the old building, but to build a new Gostiny Dvor closer to the city border.
Maly Gostiny Dvor
The Maly Gostiny Dvor building is located between Gostiny Dvor, the University of Economics and Finance and the Central Railway Ticket Offices, in the same block as the building of the City Duma. It was built in the 1790s by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi with the same silhouette as the Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor. Trade here was carried out both at retail and wholesale. The complex had its own specialization: this building housed many furniture stores. Trading was carried out only during daylight hours; there was a ban on the use of candles due to the fire safety of the building.
In 1860 and 1880, the buildings of the building were rebuilt, but the complex retained its functions until the revolution, and after the arrival of the new government, the building housed a training center that trained book trade specialists. Subsequently, the building housed a library technical school. After the war, the building housed the city art school and the art and production workshops of the Drama and Comedy Theatre. Later, the building additionally housed various institutions, cafes, nightclubs and bars, which made Dumskaya Street famous.
Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor
In the 30s of the 18th century, the epic construction of the Great Gostiny Dvor began. Once upon a time there were wooden merchant shops in its place, which were demolished. The first project, created by the architect Antonio Rinaldi, was ready by the end of the 1740s, but due to lack of funding, a simpler one was accepted - by the architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin-Delamot. This happened in 1761, but the Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor took its final form in 1785.
To protect against fires, the building was built of stone and iron. Each side of the building, designed as an irregular quadrangle, was a two-tier arcade surrounded by granite steps. There were lines along the sides of the building, which gave each side its name. The Cloth Line ran along Nevsky Prospekt; perfumery, haberdashery and books were sold here. Along the current streets of Perinnaya and Lomonosova were the Bolshaya and Malaya Surovsky lines, where citizens were offered to purchase unfinished fabrics; along Sadovaya there was a Mirror line with mirrors, jewelry and luxury goods.
The Great Gostiny Dvor was rebuilt several times, but basically retained its unchanged appearance. The most significant reconstruction was carried out in 1967. Then they opened a metro station, from the lobby of which you can go to the Nevskaya and Sadovaya lines.
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About 200 Russian galleries will take part in the main antique show on Ilyinka, 4
The organizer of the event, the Expopark Exhibition Projects company, developed a special exhibition solution for this Salon. In Gostiny Dvor there will be “streets” of antiques, jewelry, vintage and an “Art & Design” quarter.
The central place at the Salon will be occupied by the galleries “Elysium”, “Kardashidi Art”, “Russian avant-garde of the 10-30s”, “Times”, “Kutuzovsky, 24”, “Altruist”, “On the Patriarchs”, “Antique Trade A” . E. Lelyanova”, “Antique Seasons”, Antique Gallery “Petersburg”. It will feature paintings by Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Konstantin Somov, Zinaida Serebryakova, Alexander Deineka, Anatoly Zverev, sculptures by Paolo Trubetskoy, Evgeny Lansere.
The International Confederation of Collectors, Antiques and Art Dealers will present a non-profit exhibition “Trends in Collecting in Russia” at the Salon. The exhibition includes more than 50 works from private collections, telling about the main areas of collecting that have emerged in our country. This is museum-level Russian art: icon painting, Russian painting of the 18th–19th centuries, “Russian impressionism” and avant-garde, painting of the Soviet period and nonconformists. A separate part of the exhibition will tell about collecting European art.
A special place at the Salon will be occupied by galleries that have prepared thematic exhibitions. Thus, the oldest antique gallery “Petersburg” will present masterpieces of Russian painting from the mid-19th - first third of the 20th century from 20 iconic works. In the center of the exhibition is the painting “The Model,” created by Ilya Repin in the 1920s. Mary (Marianna) Khlopushina, who at that time settled near Repin’s Penata estate and was the artist’s model for several years, posed for this painting. In the works of Repin’s late period, which include “The Model,” the interest in expressing subtle psychologism in portraits through expressive, generalized painting is especially evident.
The exhibition “Classics for the Ages” will be displayed at the stand of the “Antique Seasons” gallery. It includes works by outstanding Russian artists of the 19th–20th centuries: Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov, Yuliy Klever, Gavriil Kondratenko, Ivan Velts, Alexander Ginet, Nikolai Dubovsky, reflecting subjects of Russian history, as well as glorifying the beauty of Russian nature.
The “Russian Modern” gallery tells at its stand about the travels of artists whose works were created during the period of the late 19th - first half of the 20th centuries, such as the genre scene “Rocky River. Fishermen” by Alexander Egornov, 1901–1902, or a Parisian landscape by Kliment Redko depicting a fashionable car of the 1920s.
At the center of the thematic exhibition “Russian Style”, prepared by the Altruist Gallery, there will be five monumental decorative panels dedicated to the history of Ancient Rus', created by Mikhail Yakovlev in 1913, after graduating from the Stroganov and Tenishevsky schools. The works belong to the early period of the master’s work.
“Women in art and the art of women” is the name of the exhibition of the Vellum Gallery. The stand will feature both images of women - “Young woman against the background of the church” by Philip Malyavin and “Jupiter in the image of Diana and the nymph Callisto” by Karl Beggrov, as well as paintings by famous artists: Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, Olga Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Alexandra Konovalova.
“Valentin Ryabov Gallery” will exhibit Konstantin Korovin’s magnificent landscape “Paris at Night” from 1923 from the “Lights of Paris” series. Another painting from the same series is “Paris. Night Cafe" from 1929 will be included in the exhibition of the International Confederation of Collectors, Antique Dealers and Art Dealers (IKKAAD).
Drawings by Natalia Goncharova - sketches of a Spanish woman's costume from the 1920s–40s and an evening dress of “The Hierophant,” from the 1920s–30s — will be shown by the Elysium gallery. After emigrating to France, the artist created sketches of scenery and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons, including Spanish dresses for the ballet Bolero by Bronislava Nijinska. In the 1920s, Goncharova collaborated with famous couturiers: Coco Chanel, Nadezhda Lamanova and the Mybor fashion house of Maria Cuttoli.
“Form Gallery” presents a personal exhibition of the Soviet realist artist Vladimir Tokarev, a graduate of the Rostov Art School and the Institute. I. E. Repin.
For the first time at the Antique Salon, a separate Art&Design quarter will be dedicated to the latest art and collectible design. Such well-known galleries as “Heritage”, “Art-Box/E.K.Art-Bureau”, “Circulation 1/1” PA Gallery are participating in it. Representative offices of Russian designers: Olga Soldatova, Anastasia Panibratova and Maria Romanova will also be located here.
The organizers of the 45th Russian Antique Salon prepared a rich business and educational program, which included: a legal forum dedicated to the circulation of movable cultural property, a lecture “Three-faced Trinity: a history of paradox” by Sergei Zotov, co-author of the bestseller “The Suffering Middle Ages”, a conference “Jewelry Brands as national pride of Russia,” discussion from the Masters and Public Talk school of designer Maria Romanova.
Regular (without benefits) tickets to the Salon cost 500 rubles.
BUSINESS PROGRAM OF THE 45TH RUSSIAN ANTIQUE SALON
November 27 2019. 12:00–16:00. Conference “Jewelry brands as the national pride of Russia. Formation of a premium market for jewelry brands in Russia. Investments in jewelry" Organizers: Association "National Jewelry Brands of Russia", Foundation for the Development of Jewelry Art of Russia.
November 27 2019. 17:00–19:00. Public Talk “Art in the interior is not a luxury, but a necessity. How to effectively interact with all participants in the art market.”
November 28 2019. 12:00–15:00. Legal forum “Rights and obligations of parties in the circulation of cultural property.” Within the framework of the forum, it is expected to discuss the law enforcement practice of the law on the import and export of cultural property, as well as current issues of implementation of copyright legislation, including the right of inheritance and exclusive rights. Organizer: International Confederation of Collectors, Antiquarians and Art Dealers.
November 28 2019. 18:00–19:30 Lecture “Three-faced Trinity: the history of paradox.” Lecturer: Sergey Zotov - cultural scientist, scholarship holder of the Humboldt University (Berlin), laureate of the Enlightenment Prize, co-author of the bestseller “The Suffering Middle Ages: the paradoxes of Christian iconography.” At the lecture, Sergei Zotov will talk about what iconographic censorship was like in modern times and compare the Russian situation with the Western one using the example of two unique works - a spiritual painting of the Flemish school of the late 15th century and a Russian icon of the late 18th century. Today, many centuries later, these works are finally entering the history of art not as curiosities or curiosities, but as masterpieces of their era, on a par with the more famous monuments of painting.
November 30th 2019. 14:00–16:00 Discussion “Antiques, collectible design and contemporary art in collections.” Organizer: Masters school.
November 30th 2019. 17:00–18:00 Presentation of the publication “Open Letters of the Community of St. Evgenia." Publishing house "Krepostnov" (3 volumes). The publication will be presented by: Arsen Melitonyan, President of the Union of Philocartists of Russia, Vice-President of the Union of Collectors of Russia, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Alexander Senkevich, Doctor of Philology, member of the Moscow Writers Union. Organizer: Russian Philatelists Union.
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