The Museum of Russian icons

The Museum of the Russian Icon is not only the largest private collection in Russia with a significant level of works, with about 5,000 exhibits, but certainly the widest in scope of material. It includes the early Christian and Byzantine antiquities of the 6th – 14th centuries, some of which have no analogues even in major museums of the country; Greek monuments; as well as a whole museum of Ethiopian Christian culture. This is the only private collection of Byzantine and Old Russian art in Russia.