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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,  collected
  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  History
  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  drawingteachers
  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  Elementary
  and  Real  Schools  as  a  compulsory  study,  but  ten  Sunday  schools
for  persons  engaged  in  industrial  pursuits  have  also  been  organized,
  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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