City Day in Moscow is celebrated annually on the second weekend of September. This year, City Day in Moscow will be celebrated on September 13^th–14^th. In 2025, Moscow will celebrate its 878^th birthday.

Every year, the holiday becomes more and more spectacular. Famous musical compositions are played in the parks of the capital, exhibitions and fairs are organised on boulevards and central streets, light shows and film screenings are held in the evening. The City Day 2025 celebrations will take place throughout the capital. One of the main locations will be the venues of the forum-festival ‘Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030’. Events featuring VR technologies, multimedia installations, 3D holograms and much more will be held at Zaryadye Park, Luzhniki Stadium, Bolotnaya Square, Moscow Manege and other venues. The programme includes exhibitions, performances, concerts, discotheque, sporting events, and fashion shows. Everything will be high-tech and, most importantly, large-scale.

On the eve of the capital's birthday, museum Collection presents a themed album: ‘Coffee set with the views of Moscow’ created by craftsmen from the firm of O.F. Kurlyukov and M.V. Semenova workshop.

The Russian school of gold and silverware craftsmanship assert itself during the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in London in 1851, after which the works of Russian artisans became regular participants and prize-winners at world exhibitions. From the second half of the 19^th century, Russian silversmiths became known for their skilfully crafted tableware and household items.
The precious silverware was designed and manufactured by the leading firms, the Russian Imperial Court suppliers (Carl Faberge, Orest Kurlyukov, Carl-Eduard Bolin, the Grachev brothers, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Ivan Khlebnikov, Andrey Postnikov, Alexander Lyubavin), and multiple workmen's cooperative associations of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, and other cities.

The museum Collection exposition features art items of almost all artisans and craftsmen mentioned above. The collection section “Russian Metal Artworks” gives full idea of the scale and level of development of this type of artisanship. All exhibits are characterized by peculiar design and ingenious work.

Our new thematic album features images of items from the Coffee set with the views of Moscow created by Orest Kurlyukov and Maria Semenova.

Silver coffee set, gilded, is comprised of nineteen items: coffee pot with removable lid, sugar bowl with removable lid, biscuit bowl, two creamers, six glass holders of two sizes, six coffee spoons and two spoons for sugar. The coffee pot, sugar bowl and creamers are of conical shape, with one (coffee pot, creamers) or two side handles (sugar bowl) with ivory insertions (coffee pot). Removable lids of the coffee pot and sugar bowl have a grip in the form of a smooth cast cone, separated by ivory insert. Cylinder-shaped glass holders, on smooth profiled bases, with S-shaped handle and a plate-shaped emphasis for the thumb. Oval-shaped biscuit bowl on smooth base, with an arched hinged handle. Coffee spoons – with oval smooth hollow cups and twisted handles, with cone-shaped crowns. Sugar spoons – with hollow round smooth deep cups and twisted handles crowned with smooth cast knobs. All items in the set are decorated with smooth round (glass holders, sugar bowl), oval (coffee pot, creamer) or curly (creamer) medallions surrounded by the stylized black floral ornament on repousse background. Carved monogram “OC” and niello engravings with the images of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Resurrection (Iverskiy) of the Kitaygorodskiy wall gate, the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, the view of the Grand Kremlin Palace from the Sofyiskaya Embankment and the Moscow Kremlin panorama from the Sofiyskaya Embankment.

The set is realized in the Russian style and is comprised of objects created in the period between the years 1896-1917. Often being a presentation gift or a family heirloom, which was inherited, such sets could be supplemented over time with some new objects, which explains the dating and some differences in ornamentation.