The Museum has received a plate presented to Nicholas II in 1914 and a Tsarskoe Selo 200th Jubilee Exhibition medal of 1911.

The artifacts are donated by Maxim Revyakin, an art collector and member of the Tsarskoe Selo Friends Society.

The 50 cm diameter wooden plate with carved Russian Revival ornaments was presented from the Tambov Merchant Society to the tsar during his visit to Tambov on 7 December 1914. It was one of 175 presentation plates handed over to Nicholas as memorial gifts by various deputations and delegations from all over Russia and used for decoration of the Alexander Palace’s vestibule and corridor by Empress Alexandra’s order in 1915. In 1931 this and 77 other plates were deemed unimportant and transferred to the State Museum Reserves. Now the plate is one of the three original presentation plates returned to the palace, where they will be put on display together with seven similar items after the palace’s restoration.

The medal commemorates the Tsarskoe Selo 200th Jubilee Exhibition of 1911. It was designed by A.Duseaux & Cо and produced in 250 copies by August Jacquard’s workshop of artistic engraving. The medal will join our other artifacts related to that momentous event.