The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts
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The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art located on the street delegate. The land on which the museum is located, was given at the disposal of Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnevo. In the first half of the 18th century Venetian Vasily began to build a mansion. He bequeathed it to Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman. She then became the property of Count Osterman - Tolstoy. In 1834 he sold it. In this manor housed the Moscow Theological Seminary. Ivan A. Osterman rebuilt the house in the spirit of classicism. In 1786, all the buildings of the estate began to stone, and the main house - a three-story. Two-storey wings were connected by covered walkways to the house. The Courtyard, there are two decorative pond. Planning structure of the manor has survived to the present day. The architect of the palace, presumably belonged to the school M.F.Kazakova.

In 1981, it was founded by All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art. The museum's collection are works of decorative art 18-20 centuries. In 1999 the museum collection was formed through the merger of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art and the Museum of Folk Art. S. T.Morozova, as well as library and archival funds of the Research Institute of Art Industry.

The museum includes private collections: a collection of artistic metal G.A.Kubryakova, a collection of Russian, Eastern European and N.L.Shebalskoy tissue, collection of porcelain and MV Mironova A.S.Menakera. The museum features works of decorative art nouveau Russian Mikhail Vrubel, S.V.Malyutina, AYGolovin, S.T.Konёnkova, N.A.Andreeva and others, and also has a large collection of Soviet Art 1920 -1950's. In total, the museum has more than 120 million pieces.

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