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efforts is exereised by the Museum, to whose exhibition a whole 
hall in the Northern pavilion of the Art-Hall had been 
devoted. In this exhibition there were to be seen (in selections) 
the models of Ornaments, in plaster, clay, and electrotype, col- 
lected from the national monuments ; facsimiles of old works of 
art, vessels, and other Utensils; photographs; drawings from 
1 works of art, by wkich the Museum and the School mutually assist 
. each other; and the publications issued by the Institution. The 
exceedingly interesting “ Stroganoff picture-book ” (publisked 
1869), which was issued for the purpose of showing the pictorial 
types introduced into Russia with the orthodox religion in the 
twelfth Century, was displayed on the upper portion of the walls. 
As the prineipal achievement of the Museum of the Stroganoff 
school, we must, however, mention the publication of “ The His- 
tory of Russian Ornament,” drawn from authentic manuscripts 1 
of the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. The plates were carefully 
executed in color-printing, from the Originals, in Paris ; and this 
work may be said to supply the basis of the reforms which are 
at present aimed at in Russian industry. A special effort has also 
been made to purify the taste of the people by improving the style 
of the pictures of saints, so universal and so populär in Russia. 
This branch of art is to be led back to the gracefulness of the old 
Greek types, which were formerly peculiar to it, but which were 
lost by the introduction of foreign elements. 
A considerable number of industrial artists and draughtsmen leave 
the school annually, and impart its tendencies to the industries ; but, 
besides these artists, the Institution also educates the drawing- 
teachers for other institutions (in the provincial towns), which 
follow similar aims. Instigated by the Stroganoff school, drawing, 
especially in Moscow, has made very satisfactory advances since 
1867. The subject has not only been introduced into the Elemen- 
tary and Real Schools as a compulsory study, but ten Sunday schools 
for persons engaged in industrial pursuits have also been organ- 
ized, and at the University a special drawing course has been 
opened for the students, not to speak of the Drawing-Schools which 
many manufaeturers have established for the benefit of their own 
1 Mostly Greek and Slavonian. 
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