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Odessa
Bleschunov Municipal
Museum E-mail bleschunov-museum@odessaglobe.com The Bleschunov Municipal Museum of Personal Collections (Polskaya St. 19) is founded on the basis of collection of Alexander Bleschunov and is located in the same apartment where it was forming. Therefore the museum keeps some distinctive features of a "home collection". The exposition is not built according to the traditional museum canons observing a chronological consistence, but is grouped by a territorial principle.
"The Memorial Room of A.V. Bleschunov" is a working study of the collector, in which the subjects that were the most dear to the founder of the museum (family relics, photo of the friends and pupils), and the materials, connected to the militarian and mountaineering stages of his life are gathered. "The Russian Olden Times" - articles of the city-dwellers' everyday life in the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century are kept in this room. These things surrounded our ancestors, creating an unique background of the epoch. These are samples of antique furniture made of Karelian birch, Russian beadware, hand-made laces and many other things. In "The Buddhistic East" room articles of art of Japan, China, Mongolia and Tibet are submitted. The room has received its name a little conditionally: Mongolia and Tibet are genuinely Buddhistic countries, but China and Japan can be named so only partially. A screen of Coromandel lacquer being remarkable for its high artistic execution and made in the 17th century is displayed in the hall; a small but rather interesting collections of China and Japanese porcelain and bottles for snuff made of half-precious stones are exhibited here. A small pantheon of Buddhistic gods executed in the technique of "a lost waxen model" is gathered in this room. In "The Western Europe" room articles of furniture, samples of porcelain, glass, and painting dating from the 17th-19th centuries are submitted. The compositional center of the hall is a Venetian mirror in a carved wooden frame, over which gallery of portraits of the reigning person of the 17th-19th centuries is on display. European porcelain (make of Saxon and Vienna, Berlin and France) is rather widely submitted in the hall. You will enjoy a fine collection of miniatures, among which portraits of R. Wagner, Napoleon, Josephine and Maria-Louise the Austrian are distinguished. An unique collection of fans made of every possible materials (tortoise-shell, ivory, ostrich and cockerel feathers, etc.) also belongs to the section of the West European art. "The Staircase" is decorated with a small collection of works by B.A. Smirnov-Rusetsky, one of the pupils of N.K. Rerikh. The collection of the Ukrainian art owned to the museum is not too big but it is interesting by a principle of selection of exhibits: national crafts of the Ukraine are submitted in it. The room is decorated with some works of painting devoted to the Ukraine and an excellent popular print of the 19th century with a classical scene "at the well". Samples of icon-painting and, first of all, the famous Ukrainian icons-primitives (painted on a canvas as distinct from the Russian ones, made on the board) are of great interest. The collection of Krolevets woven towels made in the 19th century, with stylized drawing of the Russian Emblem, that was traditional for that time, submitted in the room. In "The Moslem East" hall articles of everyday life of Central Asia and the Caucasus are submitted. One of the most interesting collections is that of carpets: it includes a famous Persian carpet, with the representation of a blossoming tree and birds, and some small bags-carpets. The collection of the Central Asiatic and Iran vessels (for washing and preparing tea, devices for smoking) is very exotic. The exposition of the "Odessica" hall is devoted to the native city, therefore its structure is so varied. It includes memorial things and books that have already become a bibliographical rarity, old newspapers, photos and works of the Odessa artists. In the "Christianity" hall a very interesting collection of original old-ritual icons is gathered. The collection of the Rostov enamel is rather valuable and that of church utensils is diverse enough.
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