This round dining table, originally with a sliding table top, belonged to the director’s mother, YUlia Eisenstein née KonEtskaya. As a family legend goes, she brought it from St. Petersburg to RIga as a wedding dowry, which also included chairs with carved backrests in neo-Gothic style and many other furnishings. After splitting with her husband, Yulia Eisenstein left for her birthplace in St. Petersburg and settled in a house on TavrIcheskaya Street. After the official divorce, she took the dowry back. In 1935, Yulia moved to Moscow, to her son’s former room in a communal apartment at 23 ChistoprUdny Boulevard, apartment 2. She gave several pieces of furniture for her son’s new apartment on PotYlikha Street, including this table (without sliding boards), which stood in the library room.

Sergei Eisenstein put a BAuhaus lamp with a steel sphere base on the table. He probably purchased this lamp during one of his business trips to the USA or Europe in 1929–1932. His self-caricature with the reflection in the lamp’s sphere base has been preserved to this day. Presumably in 1945-1946 Eisenstein laid the table with a green tablecloth made of the remains of brocade, which he received for the costumes for Ivan the Terrible before the Revolution.

The festive dowry service, probably the one used during the evening parties, Yulia Eisensten also took to Moscow. It was custom-made by M.S.Kuznetsov Partnership in the late 19th century. The shape and decor were in Rococo style: one of the sources of Art Nouveau style. The service is partially preserved.