"GOLD!"

August 27, 2024 in the Khabarovsk Krai Museum named after N.I. Grodekov. An exhibition from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums dedicated to the first precious metal that occupies a special place in the culture and history of mankind - gold - will open in the N.I. Grodekov Khabarovsk Krai Museum.

Throughout the ages, gold has not only been a valuable piece of jewelry, but has also had a special symbolic meaning.

The exhibition will present the skills of jewelers and goldsmiths of different eras and the amazing variety of their works.

Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the world of gold as an eternal metal preserved since ancient times, starting with gold jewelry of the IV-III centuries BC of the Greek-Scythian culture - ancient coins with portraits of Philip and Alexander the Great. The exhibition also presents works of art from the era of the Great Migration of Peoples - items from the famous Sujan hoard, Kievan Rus - including the only gold ring from the Great Kremlin hoard.

Special attention in the project is paid to gold as an integral attribute of power: diplomatic gifts to Russian sovereigns, award weapons, status gifts will come to Khabarovsk from the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

Visitors will see imported items that filled the state's need for gold until the 18th century: Turkish, Iranian, Chinese items, Hungarian and Venetian gold coins.

The time when Russia ceased to need imported gold, becoming, on the contrary, the most important exporter of this precious metal. The 19th century in Russia was a period when the jewelry industry flourished, as evidenced by the numerous ornaments and accessories created by unsurpassed masters presented at the exhibition. Visitors will be able to admire, in particular, a magnificent gold cigarette case by Carl Fabergé, made in the form of a gold ingot at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

The exposition will display, among other things, gold accessories and jewelry of the twentieth century - the time when Soviet gold mining became the second largest in the world. The active development of the Khabarovsk Territory's gold-bearing deposits played no small part in this.

The exhibition will feature about 200 gold items, most of which are not displayed in the permanent exhibitions of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. The most multi-part exhibit of the exhibition is a treasure weighing more than 4.5 kg, consisting of 552 gold coins from 1850-1910, which was found by builders in 1994 in the basement of a house near the Moscow Kremlin.

The exhibition project is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Government of Khabarovsk Krai.