Historical household collection

Travelware ⁸
More than 100 units.
The collection of travel supplies includes luggage trunks, suitcases, handbags, hat boxes and devices that can make life of travellers pleasant and easy.

Moving from place to place was an essential part of the lifestyle in the 19th century. Treatment, visiting relatives and friends, moving from winter flat to summer house and back were the ... ↓
Toys and Board games ²⁰
More than 400 items.
The collection of foreign and Russian toys of the XIX – XX centuries is small (200 units), but quite various in origin, place of manufacture and artistic merits. A typical example of expensive toy for urban children is a doll with a porcelain head and body made of leather, fabric, papier-mache. Since 1880 dolls with children's proportions prevailed in production. ... ↓
- Шахматы ¹⁰
  Русские шахматы так называемого изобразительного типа со второй половины XVIII века делали в виде двух войск — восточного и европейского. Главными фигурами в них были турецкий султан и король, держащий в руках скипетр.
  
  Для изготовления шахмат использовали кость мамонтовую, слоновую, моржовую, рог оленя.
  Первоначально каждую фигурку вырезали вручную, но с изобретением токарного станка труд ... ↓
Samovars, broth-pots and cookware ⁸
The collection includes more than 130 items among which are the examples of mass production and unique pieces.

The bulk of the collection consists of samovars made in the second half of the nineteenth century in Tula at the factories of Batashev, Vorontsov, Reinhold and Emil Tejle, Shemarin brothers. There are also samovars with hallmarks of the Moscow, Saint Petersburg ... ↓
Tableware ⁸
The historical collection contains about 1200 different types of metal tableware and cutlery.

Among the rarest and most valuable items of the collection there is a tea set produced by the workshops of Veliky Ustyug, imitating expensive chinaware. To simulate porcelain the masters used various techniques. Metal (usually copper) shape of the objects was covered with several ... ↓
Souvenirs and gifts for jubilees ⁷
The collection includes more than 500 samples of souvenir and gift products that are associated with important events of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern Russia – from the cup on the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II up to the egg "Saint-Petersburg", created recently in the workshop of Theo Faberge and gifted to our city.

Souvenirs reflect national ... ↓
Packaging for food and industrial products ⁸
About 1,600 units.
Product packaging is a very important tool to influence consumers, so every manufacturer pays special attention to it. Factory packaging with artwork began from the second half of the XIX century. From this period the packaging has become a carrier of advertising information.

Packaging the late XIX – early XX centuries (250 items) used a ... ↓
Inkstands and stationery ¹⁶
Collection of inkstands has about 200 items of Russian and foreign production, made in different historical styles. Especially valuable are the author's and memorial items.

First inkstands appeared with the creation of thin canvases, such as parchment and papyrus. In Egypt and China ink for writing was made of soot and ... ↓
Caskets ⁸
The collection of caskets has more than 250 objects of various shapes, styles and materials.

Caskets of papier-mache with lacquer paintings form a separate group of about 30 units. The art of lacquer painting originated in China and then spread to Korea, Japan, countries of Indochina, India and Persia. In Europe workshops for the production of articles painted in the ... ↓

More than 15 000 items.
The fund presents a variety of household objects made of metal, wood, paper, ivory and stone describing the life and manners of various social groups of St.Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad from the middle of the XVIII century to the present.

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