MOSCOW.- The present display is organized on the initiative of President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and President Giorgio Napolitano under the patronage of Cyril, the Patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia in the framework of Year of Russian culture and Russian language in Italian Republic and Italian culture and Italian language in Russian Federation. Being a result of the joint work of the representatives of the reserch centres, museum community, and theological circles, this project has become a unique experience of collaboration between Italian and Russian experts, who made this unprecedented exchange of masterpieces possible at the conclusion of the Russian-ItalianYear. In the famous Baptistery in Florence the State Tretyakov Gallery presents rare pieces of Old Russian art from its collection. They are the monumental “Our Lady Hodegetria”, created in the