Rybinsk museum reserve - sight-seeing of the city

370 km from Moscow and 80 km from Yaroslavl is the city of Rybinsk, which is the administrative center of the Rybinsk district. It is located in a picturesque place, at the confluence of the rivers of the Volga, Cheremukh and Sheksna. In addition to them, the city crosses a few more small rivers and streams.

A remarkable Russian city is located in the northern point of the Volga, to Rybinsk the great river carries its waters to the northeast, and from Rybinsk turns to the southeast. The city is on its two banks, but its main part is located on the right bank.

Sights of Rybinsk

In the city there are quite a lot of monuments of architecture (XVIII - XX century.), Which attract the interest of historians and researchers, and they are always visited by guests. The entire historical center is built in the XIX century, although many buildings were rebuilt several times. The main decoration of the city are the buildings of the grain market. They are built on the banks of the Volga.

The old exchange is made in classical style, the new one was erected in 1912. The building is in pseudo-Russian style. The author of the project was A. V. Ivanov. Outside, the magnificent structure is covered with a tile. It stands on a massive stone basement, which stretches out on the Volga shore. Currently, the main attraction of the city is here - the Rybinsk Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.

The building of the exchange, the cathedral, the bridge across the Volga are included in a single ensemble, which became the visiting card of this city. Rybinsk Museum-Reserve is the largest and most visited in the region. It has a rich collection of cultural and historical exhibits.

Rybinsk Museum-Reserve: History

In October 1910 the first natural-science museum was opened in Rybinsk, which was created in the building of the Commercial School. The idea of creating the museum was made by the local intelligentsia, which united in the department of the Yaroslavl Historical Society. It included AA Mikhailov, NN Rozov, BG Verdy, LA Albitsky and other prominent figures of the city.

By 1913 the museum had five departments:

• geological;
• mineralogical;
• botanical;
• zoological;
• anthropological.

By that time his collection numbered several thousand interesting exhibits. At the initiative of DA Ushakov, supported by AA Zolotarev, Alexander Burov, LA Albitzkiy and others, with the assistance of the city's leadership, in December 1919 an artistic and historical museum was founded in Rybinsk. The center of his collection was the exhibits provided by the neighboring noblemen's estates. After a while, the exposition was supplemented by the receipt of works of art from museums and picture galleries in Moscow and Petrograd.

The first real professional in the museum business in the Rybinsk Museum was EVSosnina, who came to the museum after a collection of applied art that the Rybinsk Cheka confiscated from her relatives.

Museum in the 30s

The thirties of the last century began with mass arrests of museum staff, who were accused of reactionary ideology. Since 1935 the development of the department of nature, led by a writer, artist G. Lesovik. Around the same time the museum received hundreds of exhibits from the disbanded small museums (Poshekhonsky, Mologa and others).

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the museum's activity was suspended, and all exhibits were packed and prepared for evacuation. However, in May 1942 the museum again met the ossetists in some departments.

The Museum after BOC

From the middle of the fifties the museum began to replenish its collection with the works of contemporary Soviet and foreign artists. For this period, the complex flourishes. In February 1959, he received the status of a historical and artistic museum. In addition to creating an exposition telling about the life of the region, museum specialists began to restore already exhibits. So the Rybinsk museum-reserve was created. Exhibitions of folk art, glass and porcelain, icon painting began to work on an ongoing basis.

From 1970 to 1980, when the museum was headed by IB Rabinovich (captain 1 rank), great attention was paid to military-patriotic work. During this period of time, the exhibition activity intensified . The tradition includes collective and personal exhibitions of Rybinsk artists, young local painters. In turn, exhibits from this Volga city began to appear frequently at exhibitions in the capital's museums.

In January 1989 the museum received its current status. In 1992, the city administration made a very important decision. The Rybinsk Museum-Reserve received the building of the New Bread Exchange.

Description of the building

This is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. It is located on the bank of the Volga. The Bread Exchange is a historical and architectural monument of the city. The building was built in 1912 by the Moscow architect A. Ivanov. Figured roofs with openwork crests, facades lined with tiles and glazed tiles - all this splendor resembles a chamber of fairy-tale heroes, though built using modern technology at that time.

Today, most of the finishes of that time were preserved inside: stucco moldings, tracery forged stair railing, etc. The building is constructed of brick and is faced with German tiles. In the decoration of the beautiful structure, over two hundred colored tiles were used. They depict two-headed eagles, grasses and flowers. The foundation is made of quarry stone and buried at four meters. This is done so that the structure can withstand the spring flood of the river.

The building of the Bread Exchange in the XIX century personified the strength, power and wealth of the Rybinsk merchant class. Traders and industrialists from all over Russia gathered in this building. In the 20th century this building served as a military hospital, a military headquarters, and a city hospital until it was transferred to the museum. After that, it was converted into a museum in the shortest possible time, and in the winter of 1993 it was opened.

Further development

In 1995, the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve (Rybinsk) was supplemented by another department, a museum of the history of the Mologa region, which was housed in the former chapel of the women's Afanasyevsky monastery. Here were collected materials on the history of these lands, in the middle of the twentieth century, which were absorbed by the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir.

Part of the museum complex is located in the Mukhoy Gostiny Dvor, which is now closed for repairs. This building in the form of a square consists of two-story shops (the end of the 18th century). Until the beginning of the last century on the first floor there were open arcades. Now it is planned to restore them during the restoration of the building.

Museum-preserve today

The Rybinsk State Museum-Reserve now numbers more than one hundred and twenty thousand exhibits. Ten works are constantly working today. These include exhibitions devoted to the history of the museum and the city, as well as the picturesque nature of the region, archaeological finds, objects of decorative and applied art.

The Rybinsk Museum-Reserve has an extensive collection of Western European art. Here are the famous canvases of Italian, German, Dutch, English and French painters of the 16th-19th centuries, as well as sculptures of the 18th and 19th centuries, the works of famous architects.

A great interest of visitors is the collection of applied art of Europe. It presents medieval majolica (Italy), earthenware (Delft and Wedgwood), products of the most famous West-European porcelain manufactories of the XVIII-XIX centuries, ceramics of the East and decorative glass (Bohemia and Silesia).

Exposition of Russian art

Today, much attention is paid to the collection of Russian art objects Rybinsk Museum-Reserve (Rybinsk). A great collection of exhibits of Orthodox culture will be of interest to many - icons (XVI-XVII c.), Printed editions, enamel, carved wood items, ancient copper plates (11th century). This section presents the works of F. Rokotov and I. Shishkin, V. Vereshchagin and I. Repin, A. Benois and N. Roerich.

In addition, here you can see an amazing collection of decorative and applied products from porcelain and glass of Russian factories

Ancient history

Viewing historical and archaeological expositions, visitors can get acquainted with the pre-Mongol culture of the peoples who inhabited these places. Objects of everyday life, ancient documents are presented here. Very interesting are the collection's exhibits, which are dedicated to flora and fauna - parts of skeletons of mammoths, prehistoric bison and woolly rhinoceros.

Interesting Facts

In 1967, during the filming of the famous film "War and Peace" by S. Bondarchuk, the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve provided furniture and accessories.

In the film "12 chairs" by L. Gaidai (1971), the auction scene was shot in the building of the bread market (the main building of the museum-preserve today).

In the movie "Boomer" (2006), the scene of the persecution of bandits Dashka, was shot in Rybinsk. This happened on the site of the Volga embankment, limited to the buildings of the museum complex.

Rybinsk Museum-Reserve: how to get there?

Rybinsk is not a resort town. Most often people come here on official and personal matters. If you happen to visit these places, be sure to visit the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve. Its address is the Volga embankment, 2. On the street. Ukhtomsky, 45 is the Ukhtomsky House-Museum and in the Transfiguration Lane, 6A is the Museum of the Mologa Territory.

From the railway station to the museum complex you will take buses № 5, № 107, № 108, № 109, № 114. Trolleybuses № 3 and № 5, as well as fixed-route taxi № 5Т. You need to get off at the "Cathedral Square" stop.