Muscovites were told about the development of the Russian glass industry

19.11.2020
Muscovites were told about the development of the Russian glass industry

Rare glassware created by artists and unknown authors, a Venetian vessel in the shape of a boat, as well as other treasures can be seen in the Kuskovo estate museum in the capital. This was announced on Thursday, November 19, on the official website of the mayor of Moscow.

It is noted that every year on this day the country celebrates the Day of the Glass Industry Worker. The first glass factory in Russia appeared in 1635 in the village of Dukhanino, Dmitrovsky district. For this purpose, several foreign specialists were invited from abroad.

Glass boat made of Venetian glass. XIX century / Photo: mos.ru / Official website of the Mayor of Moscow

The second production was opened in the village of Izmailovo in the Tsar's estate under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the late 60s of the 17th century. The plant was built at public expense, it functioned for the needs of the royal family.

By the end of the 18th century, several of the largest state glass factories were formed in the state. The first private glass factory was founded by the nobleman Alexei Ivanovich Bakhmetyev on the territory of his own estate in the Penza province in 1764.

- The funds of the museum-estate "Kuskovo" store the rarest items made by the masters of the Izmailovsky glass factory at the beginning of the 18th century: a goblet with the inscription "Vivat Tsar Petr Alekseevich" and an engraved foot with Petr Alex Magn Czar Mosc ("Peter Alekseevich the Great Tsar of Moscow") ... The signature on the foot was made with errors - with missing letters and abbreviations. Most likely, it was made by a Russian engraver who does not speak Latin, - the message says.

It is specified that Vera Mukhina played an important role in the history of Soviet glass production. Many of the services that stood in the homes of citizens were made according to her sketches. She became interested in glass in 1914 when she saw the work of Murano specialists in Italy.

V. Mukhina. Glass bust of N. N. Kachalov. Museum-Estate "Kuskovo"

In the early 1940s, Vera Mukhina, the creator of the optical glass manufacturing technology Nikolai Kachalov, and the writer Alexei Tolstoy wrote a letter to the government asking to open a workshop for the serial production of art glass products.

An experimental laboratory was founded at the Leningrad Mirror Manufacturing Plant. The best glassmakers from all over the USSR came there to advise their colleagues. In less than a year of the workshop's existence, the craftsmen have created several dozen unique samples.

There Mukhina invented her own method of glass molding - bending, after which the sculptor created a series of glass busts. One of them was the "Portrait of a Scientist", which was dedicated to Nikolai Katchalov. At the moment, the bust is in the fund of modern glass in the museum-estate "Kuskovo".

Source:https://vm.ru/

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