State Historical Museum in Moscow

The State Historical Museum of Russia 
(Russian: Государственный Исторический музей) is a museum of Russian history between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow wedged. 
 
 The exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. The total number of objects in the Museum's collection numbers in the millions.
The place where today stands the museum, was formerly occupied by the Principal Medicine Store, was at the behest of Peter the Great in the Moscow baroque style. Several rooms in this building housed the royal collections of antiquities. Other rooms were occupied by the Moscow University, founded by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1755.
The museum was founded in 1872 by Ivan Zabelin, Aleksey Uvarov, and several other Slavophiles in the promotion of Russian history and national self-interest. The Board of Trustees, by Sergei Solovyov, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Uvarov and other leading historians assembled, presided over the construction of the museum building. After a lengthy competition awarded the project Vladimir Osipovich Shervud (or Sherwood, 1833-1897) was.
The current structure was built on neo-Russian Sherwood Design's 1875-1881, and officially opened in 1894 by Tsar Alexander III. The interior was lavishly decorated in the Russian Revival style of artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Henrik Semiradsky. During the Soviet era, the murals were announced bright and plastered. The museum went through a painstaking restoration of its original appearance between 1986 and 1997.
Important elements include a sloop from the banks of the Volga artifacts excavated gold of the Scythians, birch bark scrolls of Novgorod, manuscripts date back to 6th Century, Russian folk ceramics and objects made of wood. The library holds the manuscripts of the Psalter Chludov (860), Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073), Mstislav Gospel (1117), Yuriev Gospel (1119), and Halych Gospel (1144). The museum's coin collection alone contains 1.7 million coins, making it the largest in Russia. In 1996, total number of items in the collection of the museum reached 4,373,757.
A branch of the museum is housed in the adjacent building of the Moscow City Hall, two more are housed in the Novodevichy Convent and St. Basil's Cathedral.