15.05.2021 — 25.07.2021
Splendor of the Sunset:
Iran of the Qajar era
(the late 18th century - 1925)
Surprisingly, Moscow has one of the richest collection of Persian art, along with the Parisian Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Paintings, ceramics, weapons, carpets and manuscripts, historical documents and photographs of this period characterised by increasing economical and social tension, additionally to European cultural expansion, and British and Russian pressure, will be presented in The State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow till end of July