Like other pieces of Mexican ornamental art, Sergei Eisenstein brought this rug from Mexico in 1932. The composition is arranged around a Mexican heroic leader, who is identified with the feathered serpent Quetzalcōātl, a deity revered by Latin American Indians since ancient times.

This rug from Mexico also portrays a mythological leader and god Quetzalcōātl in the center. It is surrounded by Mexican warriors in masks, and at the corners one can see the national symbol of Mexico, a caracara bird with a snake in its beak. Eisenstein bought this rug in Mexico during the shooting of the film Que viva Mexico! This rug covered the sofa in his bedroom in the apartment on Potylikha Street.

Sergei Eisenstein’s bedroom looked like depicted in this watercolor drawing by Georgy Grivtsov right after the director’s death in February 1948. The bedroom is filled with various picturesque decor elements with sacral motifs of the peoples of the world. Colorful rugs, photos in orange mats, ancient Japanese engravings, masks from different countries and statuettes blended the walls of pale pink. Sergei Eisenstein asked to paint the room exactly in this color, which reminded him of his childhood.

The striped palace rug embellishes the Bedroom zone exposition. It is probably made of traditional woolen serape capes, also brought by the director from Mexico. Anna Koleychuk, the designer of the Sergei Eisenstein’s Study exposition, used the geometric ornament from the rug — white, orange, dark brown and thin blue stripes — to color the benches for visitors.

From the trip, Sergei Eisenstein also brought traditional dried pumpkin vase made by women in southern Mexico, on the Isthmus of TehuantepEc between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. Similar vases were filmed in an episode Sandunga of the film Que viva Mexico! in 1931.