Museums near Museum of Folk Prints

Sea Battle, Gorodki, Sniper, Safari — the machines work rather than stand behind glass; and the soda machine with a faceted glass.

The upper floor is the studio the house was built for: high ceilings, wide windows onto the yard and the garden. Viktor Vasnetsov painted the Bogatyrs and Sirin and Alkonost here. Both went long ago to Lavrushinsky Lane. What stayed is The Poem of Seven Fairy Tales — seven canvases of 1901–1926, from The Sleeping Princess to The Frog Princess. Beside them are icons and peasant costumes from his own collection. His brushes lie in a birchbark box on the work table. Downstairs, two rooms survive almost intact. The dining room and the drawing room keep their furnishing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: furniture to drawings by Vasnetsov and Yelena Polenova, family portraits by his own hand. In the yard, on the brick fire wall, is the mosaic Christ Enthroned after his design. It was set early in the twentieth century in Frolov’s St Petersburg workshop and moved here in the 1970s.

Peter's larch, as the garden has always called it, stands in the middle of the arboretum. Beside it a pedunculate oak more than two hundred years old, limes past a hundred, and a rare weeping form of the Dahurian larch. The Palm House of 1891: palms, figs and pandanus at their full height. The Succulent House on the upper floor of the glasshouse block holds cacti, euphorbias, agaves and aloes, some of them among the rarest anywhere. The old pond with its water plants, the shade garden, the heather slope where the rockery used to be; the conifer slopes took a gold diploma of the landscape architecture prize in 2013.

The studio with its original furnishings, and the views of old Moscow — historical reconstructions by which the medieval city is still imagined.

Bookplates by Russian and foreign artists, miniature editions and micro-books, writing on a grain of rice and miniatures on ivory.

Lacquer miniature — Palekh, Fedoskino, Mstyora, Kholuy; Soviet propaganda porcelain; toys of the peoples of the world; embroidery and samovars.

The white-stone piers of the Voskresensky Bridge of the 16th to 18th century — the museum was built around them; coin hoards found in the city centre; the everyday things of medieval Moscow.

A dugout boat some 3,500 years old; the Mstislav Gospel of the early 12th century; the helmet of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich; a Blaeu globe; personal belongings of Peter the Great. Look up: the halls themselves are painted after Old Russian models and count as an exhibit.

The sixteenth-century undercroft, the one genuine part of the building. The interiors recreated by Richter in the 1850s: the dining chamber, the boyarynya’s room, the light room. Tiled stoves, chests, vessels and textiles of the seventeenth century.

The Treasury Chamber with its 16th–17th-century interior and the original vaults; the display on Russian–English trade and finds from the Zaryadye digs.