The museum's collection is displayed across eight thematic halls:
Showcasing works by local and regional artists inspired by the city, including:
Marat Akbarov Workshop (St. Petersburg):
– “St. Nicholas Cathedral” panel – notable for exquisite stone selection and jewel-like precision. The turquoise perfectly captures the lantern-lit cathedral walls.
– “Tsar-Carpenter” jewel box – a jasper-based masterpiece where black-and-white stone textures create a vivid portrait of Peter I without paint.
Anatoly Nigmatullin Workshop (Ufa):
– “Winter Canal” panel – the only mosaic replica of I. Urenius’ 1812 painting, framed with avant-garde grey-green jasper featuring miniature cameos of St. Isaac’s Cathedral and Peter and Paul Fortress.
– “Kazan Cathedral” panel – an avant-garde precursor to Boris Oshkukov’s abstract works.
Highlighting the Khabarovsk school represented by Gennady Pavlishin Workshop:
– Seasons triptych (“Winter,” “Autumn,” “Spring”) – monumental panels showcasing rare perspective mastery.
– “Snow Leopard” panel – uses jasper, charoite, and other regional minerals to capture the animal’s power.
– “Uncertain Outcome” – a dramatic tiger-bear confrontation.
Anatoly Golobokov Workshop:
– “Master of the Taiga” – among Russia’s finest Florentine mosaics, perfectly rendering a forest scene.
Featuring Bashkortostan workshops:
– Sergei Chulkov’s replicas of the Amber Room’s “Five Senses” mosaics (after Giuseppe Zocchi’s designs)
– Damir Devyatov’s “Grandmother’s Garden” – a 1,000-piece stone replica of Vasily Polenov’s painting
– Alexander Gorbunov’s “Russian Romance” (after Ilya Glazunov) – captures autumn atmosphere through stone textures
– “Flowers and Birds” commode – a17th-18th century Florentine Pietre Dure style masterpiece in mahogany
– Japanese-inspired panels after Hokusai’s “Fuji” and “Great Wave” using violane, flint, and other stones
Russian artist, sculptor, mosaicist, abstract art pioneer, philanthropist, and physician. Founder of the Florentine Mosaic Museum and DOC ART GALLERY.
The hall showcases his groundbreaking abstract mineral compositions from the 2000s onward. These works transform subconscious impulses into refined artistic expressions, establishing a unique abstract movement that advances avant-garde traditions, merges radical concepts with Florentine mosaic techniques, and creates unprecedented dialogues between form and material.
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