Музей флорентийской мозаики

MISSION

Our museum revitalises the art of mosaic within contemporary culture, bridging traditional craftsmanship with modern interpretations.

COLLECTION

Florentine mosaic represents the pinnacle of stonework. Its origins trace to 16th-century Florence when Grand Duke Ferdinand I de’ Medici established the Opificio delle pietre dure workshop. These traditions flourished in Imperial Russia and continue today.

Founders Boris and Lyudmila Oshkukov spent decades assembling Russia’s premier collection of Florentine mosaics, first exhibited on May 23, 2003, to mark St.

Petersburg’s tercentenary.
Today’s holdings feature over 500 works – decorative panels, objets d’art, and jewelry – representing nearly all active Florentine mosaic studios in modern Russia.

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - панно Времена года

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал Урала

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал Дальнего Востока

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал Санкт-Петербурга

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал Юрия Шевцова

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал Бориса Ошкукова

Экспозиция музея флорентийской мозаики - зал портретов исторических деятелей

MASTERS OF THE ART

Russia’s contemporary Florentine mosaic schools maintain exceptional craftsmanship. Our collection highlights these luminaries:

Gennady Pavlishin (b.1938, Khabarovsk)
• USSR Union of Artists member
• People’s Artist of RSFSR

Honorary citizen of Khabarovsk
• 1975 “Golden Apple” Prize (Bratislava)
• 1977 Leipzig Book Fair Gold Medal

1986 Order of Friendship of Peoples holder

Alexander Zhuravlyov (1943-2009, St. Petersburg)
• Lead restorer of the Amber Room (1981-1997)
• World Amber Council member

Russia Union of Artists member

1981 – 1997 supervised the restoration of the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace

Anatoly Golobokov (b.1960, Khabarovsk)
• Founder of LITOSDESIGN studio that creates artistic pieces of precious, semi-precious, and ornamental stones
• Works held internationally from Europe to Asia

Vladimir Karmanov (1935-2022, Kungur)
• Monumental socialist-realist portrait artist
• Works in major Russian museum and private collections

Marat Akbarov (1963-2023, St. Petersburg)
• Established leading St. Petersburg workshop (2001)
• Master of stone selection and precision fitting

Andrey Belyakov (b.1952, Moscow)
•Geologist, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

•Founded multidisciplinary Florentine mosaic atelier in Moscow (1993)