Photo Historical museum in Moscow are almost always very impressive. It is understandable - a beautiful building, built in Russian style 16 century. Looking at the building of the Historical Museum, it seems, that he built it in 16 or 17 century. In fact,, "The Imperial Emperor behalf of Russian Historical Museum of Alexander III» was built in 1881 year.

The museum was founded by the decree of Emperor Alexander 2 at 1872 year. It was in this year, the organizers of the Polytechnic exhibition appealed to the king with a request for the establishment of the Historical museum in Moscow.

Moscow City Council has allocated for the construction of a place on the Red Square. The place was historic - in this area in 17 century was Zemsky order. Announcing the competition for the design of the building, Organizers have set a condition - the building should organically fit into the architectural ensemble of Red Square, and style of the building should match the style of Russian architecture 16 century.

The winners styles architect VO. Sherwood and engineer AA. Semenov. The style of the building of the new museum building is reminiscent of the old order of the Land. Completed work on the project for the architect AP. priest's.

The building was constructed 6 years and the grand opening was held 27 May 1883 of the year.

After the revolution, the museum survived and became known as the Russian State Historical Museum. In the 20's and 30's, the Museum was not just one of Moscow's Museum, and it turned into the whole association, which included – "Museum St. Basil's Cathedral", "And when he Museum. Georgian church ", "The Museum of architectural monuments of the village of Kolomenskoye", "Museum Pafnutiev-Borovsky monastery", "Genoese fortress" in g. Sudak in Crimea, "Alexandrovsky monastery museum". Chambers of the Romanov Boyars, Novodevichy convent.

AT 1986 the museum was closed for renovation, which was finally completed in 2003 year. The towers of the building returned Eagles, lions and unicorns.

The building has got the kind of, which was conceived Sherwood 130 years ago.

Photos Historical Museum can be found in brochures and catalogs, devoted to the architecture of Russia and Moscow, in tourist brochures and sets of postcards. Photo History Museum, as I said at the outset, obtained very impressive. But there are some nuances. First of all, pictures of the building is best in sunny weather or in part by the cloud. In cloudy weather, When all the sky is solid and homogeneous photo clouds that are less spectacular and contrasting. Night photos are great - the building is illuminated and the combination of spotlights and light-colored masonry building looks very impressive.

When you do the museum photos, pay attention to the color of the brickwork. The walls are a shade, other than the walls of the Kremlin wall. If the bricks of the Kremlin towers and walls of masonry have a little red shade, the walls of the historical museum are small crimson hue. Basically, Different lighting Historical Museum may look different. But nonetheless, It stands on color to draw attention.

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Photo Historical museum in Moscow