Moscow Railway
Since 1959
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
107996, Russia, Moscow, st. Krasnoprudnaya, 20.
Owners:
Russian Railways (RZD) - 100%
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Moscow Railway is a branch of Russian Railways.
Within the existing borders, the Moscow Railway was organized in 1959 as a result of the complete and partial unification of six roads: Moscow-Ryazan, Moscow-Kursk-Donbass, Moscow-District, Moscow-Kyiv, Kalinin and Northern. The history of the road begins with the opening of traffic in 1861 to Petushkov, and on August 1, 1862 from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod.
The Moscow railway is 13 thousand km of deployed length, 8.8 thousand km of operational length, which serves 50.3 thousand people.
History
2000
1996
1940
Year: 1936-1940. Author: N. Kubeev]]
1939
Year: 1938-1939. Author: E. Evzirikhin]]
1937
1917: Sketches of paintings of the waiting room of the Kazan station of Prince Shcherbatov
Prince Sergei Alexandrovich Shcherbatov received an art education: after graduating from university, he left to study painting in Munich. Later he became a student of the famous Igor Grabar, who praised him very much.
In the 1910s, Shcherbatov was the only artist of princely status throughout Russia - at that time it was considered unworthy to professionally engage in painting for aristocrats.
Before the 1917 revolution, Shcherbatov managed to exhibit his work in Russia twice. Unfortunately, according to Inna Voitova, senior researcher at the Department of Decoration and Visual Materials of the Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum, none of these works have survived in Russia, except for sketches of first-class paintings of the waiting room for the Kazan Station, made by Shcherbatov to order.
Shcherbatov was attracted to the painting of the station thanks to his friendship with Vladimir von Meck, the nephew of the chairman of the board of the Moscow-Kazan Railway Society.
- Several artists participated in the design of the station. For the waiting room of the first class, a Russian theme was assumed, says Inna Voitova. - Prince Sergey Alexandrovich was a Russian landowner and a rather patriotic artist.
Shcherbatov's project was approved by an art commission led by Nikolai Karlovich von Mecca, however, according to Voitova, other artists were not delighted with such cooperation. In particular, Alexander Benois, who took part in the painting of the station, believed that Shcherbatov was an amateur.
The Bolsheviks who came to power refused Shcherbatov's murals, which they considered too luxurious and for which they simply did not have money. The architect of the station A.V. Shchusev revised the design of its design. As a result, the picturesque design has been preserved only in the restaurant hall, which for 2023 is a hall for important persons. Plafon was painted by the artist Eugene Lancere.
Shcherbatov's project remained to exist only in the form of sketches and a preparatory layout. In 1928, sketches fell into the Bakhrushinsky Museum.
- By that time, the prince had been in exile for 10 years, and his collection was nationalized and distributed to museum funds. We have a version that the sketches came to us, because they looked like parts of a theatrical layout, - said Voitova.
Shcherbatov was remembered by the general public as a collector and philanthropist: a wealthy nobleman was a member of the board of trustees of the Tretyakov Gallery, was a member of the Society of Friends of the Rumyantsev Museum and even wanted to establish his own museum of private collections, but did not have time. After the 1917 revolution, he emigrated to Europe.
Only three parts of a single cardboard model with painting for the walls of the station fell into the Bakhrushinsky Museum in a scattered form. They did not have Shcherbatov's signature, but only the signature of Nikolai Karlovich von Mecca - "I approve" and the date.
Even then, the museum's funds totaled hundreds of thousands of exhibits, so no one was interested in Shcherbatov's sketches for a long time.
- Of course, Bakhrushin heard about Shcherbatov, but personally they were not familiar. Who knows, maybe Alexei Alexandrovich's hands would have reached the works of the prince, but he died very soon, already in 1929, says Inna Voitova.
They really became interested in sketches during a recent reconciliation of museum collections. The search for the author began: Inna Voitova conducted a large study - she studied in detail the literature on the history of the construction of the Kazan railway station, in particular the series of articles by Sergei Koluzakov. The publications revealed quite accurate information about who designed which hall, and Shcherbatov was among the artists.
- That I turned to the memoirs of Sergei Alexandrovich. He described the work on the projects in some detail in his book of memoirs "The Artist in the Departed Russia," up to every small figure on each of the panels.
In exile, Shcherbatov continued to paint still lifes, landscapes, even exhibited in Rome. For 2023, specialists from the Shcherbatovsky Nara Historical Society are trying to buy these works abroad and bring them to Russia.
In 2023, the exhibition M.N. Ermolova House-Museum"Prince Sergei Shcherbatov. Unfulfilled project for the Kazan railway station "with sketches of the artist. The exhibition was also attended by,,, Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Russian State Library the Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Libraries of OJSC "."RUSSIAN RAILWAY
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