Váratlan (?) magyar világelsőség. Ruzsa György orosz fémikongyűjteménye
Unawaited (?) World Championship – Russian Metal Icon Collection of Professor Gy. Ruzsa (Budapest)

Summary/Abstract: György Ruzsa (born 1947) is an expert of Russian and Orthodox art. He studied Russian art and culture in Budapest, later in Moscow. For a long time he was curator at Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, later Professor of art history at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). His publications and exhibitions concentrate on Russian icons, with special emphasis on the so called „Metal Icons”. He was the curator-in-chief of the 2005 Budapest exhibition of metal icons from the Andrey Rublew Museum in Moscow jointly with the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest; with 467 icons, being thus one of the world’s largest such thematic exhibition. Ruzsa published several books on the topic, and he opened a special museum of metal icons in Budapest (2013) with 370 items from his private collection. Recently he published a German book: Die Sammlung Georg Ruzsa – Russische Metallikonen (Gödöllő, 2016, 568 pages, with more than 1000 colour illustrations). This is the world’s largest private collection of Russian metal icons − and a summary of Ruzsa’s life work. My essay deals with the Ruzsa collection as well as with the problems of describing and cataloguing such a gigantic collection. It presents also a short overview of Russian metal icons.

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