The stove from merchant Shevlyagin’s house from the collection of the State Historical Museum

This article is devoted to the comprehensive study of the tiled stove that belongs to the last third of the 18th century from the collection of the State Historical Museum. In 1978 the stove was moved from merchant Shevlyagin’s house in Kolomna to Moscow, and after the restoration work, it participates in a major exhibition project of SHM devoted to Russian tiled art. The stove from merchant Shevlyagin’s house in Kolomna is a well-known monument. However, its detailed research has never been done. The article gives a detailed description of the stove for the first time, as well as provides analogues and makes stylistic analysis of the décor. There has been done graphical reconstruction of the non-ceremonial part of the stove set previously unknown to researchers and never exhibited before. Study of the stove shape and painting showed that this monument is distinguished by high quality of execution. Combined with a rare for tiled art the pictorial composition «Triumph of Venus» indicate a special order and a desire to imitate palace interiors. The article raises the question of the place of manufacture of the stove.