Delivering a speech in the opening, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay said it was a special exhibition including significant memories of two great empires.
Russian Ambassador to Turkey Vladimir Ivanovski said political and commercial relations between Turkey and Russia have been boosted and they also wanted cultural relations to be improved.
The exhibition including artworks from the 16th and 17th centuries will remain open till June 7.
Approximately one hundred objects that handle the czars with their different courses including the head of state, army commander, palace ceremonies, private lives and religious sides will display in the exhibition. In the armory which is one of the first workshops of the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, which is still being operated as Armory Museum, which including the weapons that produced for the czar to be used in ceremonies, battles and hunts.
In the Superiority of Stables, the objects including ceremonial harnesses for the horses, the things for the usage of czars in their private and common lives that produced by the masters which worked in the workshops of gold and silver and coverings and clothing sewn and ornamented with pearls and silver threads for both the religious and casual usage by the master tailors and embroiderers most of them are the daughters of noble Russian families under in custody of the czarina in the Chamber of Czarina also takes their places there.
The pieces forming the little part of the Turkish art collection including the weapons as swords, helmets, daggers and pieces, which are harnesses, breweries pocket watches, basins, ewers, ink-holders joining to the inventories of Kremlin Palace pursuant to the diplomatic relations between two countries is meeting with the visitors at the place that they were produced first in Istanbul.
The Topkapi Palace was the official residence of the Ottoman sultans for 400 years from 1465 to 1856. The palace was included in UNESCO's world heritage list in 1985. Built in 1459, the palace is a complex made up of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings.
After the foundation of modern Republic of Turkey, the palace was turned into a museum of the imperial era in 1924. In the museum, large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, Ottoman-era miniatures, Islamic calligraphic manuscripts and jewelry are on display.
(EÖ-AY)
