The collecting of antiquary furniture and creation of interiors with use of subjects of olden time today become more and more fashionable employment(occupations). It is quite natural, that our collectors are involved with the furniture created by Russian masters, 6, introduced with them in the subjects made on the western samples, a little who leaves indifferent. The style on architecture, furniture, elements of an interior and clothes came to Russia from the West and already here underwent changes Styles, in Europe, easily got accustomed and at us.
Russian masters precisely watched(kept up) the western tendencies - on their works it is possible to notice, how one style was replaced by another.
At the end of XVII century, with arrival to Authority emperor Peter Alekseevicha, primordially Russian wooden furniture with a thin patten groove has gradually conceded the place in rich and notable houses of the furniture brought from France, England or Holland. But dynamical The balance between creations of the European and Russian masters was kept long years.
in Moscow and St. Petersburg furniture workshops, and later and factories made furniture on the European samples and curves, on quality not to the western analogues. And various trivialities with which supplemented subjects, frequently did(made) works of our masters even more interesting.
Having visited Moscow before a fire in 1812, Stendal with admiration described drawing rooms, With taste arranged with fine samples of the English furniture. Drawing rooms and in the truth were magnificent, only the furniture in them was basically Russian.

Features accessory antiquary furniture . Furniture traditions in Russia developed in a channel of the main European directions of art. Therefore set of the brought subjects and often repetitions English and - samples complicate for today accessory furniture of Russian masters XVII - XIX centuries.
In most cases at purchase of antiquary furniture art criticism examination is required to make which the street is possible, for example, in the Museum decoratively an applied art in Moscow. Delegatskaya.
Features of forms and elements of furnish antiquarian furniture allow to define(determine) time Creations of this or that subject. So, pretentiousness and refinement of the groove, the bent legs of sofas and chairs of epoch of a baroque contrast with the simplicity of lines peculiar to a classicism...
the Place of manufacturing of antiquary furniture to establish much more difficultly. Antiquarian products may have brands of authors or factories, but it faster a rarity. Therefore for accessory antiquarian furnitere minor attributes are important. Features characteristic for this or that style in the certain country, sometimes simply are not visible at first sight.
we shall Tell, Russian antiquary furniture of XVII century in style of a baroque or a rococo has more simple forms and furnish in comparison with similar samples from Holland or France.
the information on a material of which the subject of an interior is made will help With definition of a place of manufacturing of antiquary furniture. In Russia then popular breeds of a tree were- Oak, nut, mahogany and birch. But furniture in style from mahogany with bronze overlays in Russia never did(made), despite of admiration Russian beauty of mahogany. And with a birch Russian masters worked only. The golden pattern of its(her) wood has subdued Russian , and in the beginning of XIX century the huge quantity(amount) as separate subjects, and the whole set antiquary furniture from birches was created.