Богато иллюстрированное подарочное издание большого формата в футляре и кожаном переплете на английском языке.

The album is the first in the series of albums, called "State Museums of Russia". For the first time to a wide circle of readers, The State Historical Museum presents its largest in Russia and in the world collection of monuments of material and spiritual culture, of depictive and written sources, memorial objects, masterpieces of art. The book contains over 900 illustrations, showing richness and diversity of collections of the Museum treasures and of treasures of its affiliates. The edition introduces the readers to the Museum's history, starting from the idea of its setting up and ending by erection of its building; it tells about the people who contributed their efforts to forming, enlarging and preserving this treasury of monuments of Russian history and culture, about the great role that The State Historical Museum is performing as a museum of national history in the public and cultural life of Russia.