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The State Historical Museum of Russia (Государственный Исторический музей) is a Museum of Russian History located at one end of Red Square in Moscow . Its 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 spot where the museum now stands was formerly occupied by the Principal Medicine Store, built on the order of Peter The Great in the Moscow Baroque style. Several rooms in that building housed royal collections of antiquities. Other rooms were occupied by the First Russian University , founded by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1755 . The present structure was designed by Vladimir Osipovich Shervud (1833-97) (in English, Vladimir Sherwood), built between 1875 and 1881 , and officially opened in 1894 by Tsar Alexander III . It went through a major restoration between 1986 and 1997 . A branch of the State Historical Museum is housed in the adjacent building of the Moscow City Hall . Notable items include a Longboat excavated from the banks of the Volga River , gold artifacts of the Scythians , Birch-bark Scroll s of Novgorod , manuscripts going back to the 6th Century , Russian folk Ceramic s, and wooden objects. The library boasts the manuscripts of the Chludov Psalter (860s), Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073), Mstislav Gospel (1117), Yuriev Gospel (1119), and Halych Gospel (1144). The museum's Coin collection alone includes 1.7 million coins, making it the largest in Russia. EXTERNAL LINKS
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