If you put in enough effort and navigate the Ironworks and Metalworks galleries, you can find a genuine Tula samovar and a cup by Fyodor Ryukert in the 20th-century art department. However, the cup is temporarily exhibited in the Kremlin museums. If you do not want to undertake such feats for art, you can simply visit the Jewellery section, where rare Fabergé items from the collection of Kenneth Snowman, a well-known collector and art dealer, are displayed.

For those ready for longer strolls, it is worth visiting the halls with theatrical sketches, decorations, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and furniture. In the galleries dedicated to Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries, do not miss the bust of Catherine the Great by Fedot Shubin, the portrait of Peter I, and a steel fireplace with gilded ornamentation, gifted to the Irishwoman Martha Wilmot by Princess Catherine Dashkova in 1805. There is also information about the Amber Room in Tsarskoye Selo and other residences of Catherine II, accompanied by a short film featuring the Hermitage. The collection even includes a hanging cabinet by Elena Polenova.

Another highlight of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection is the costume of Boris Godunov, created based on sketches by Alexander Golovin for Fyodor Shalyapin in Mussorgsky's opera of the same name. It is housed in the Theatre & Performance Galleries. The museum also features a unique collection of costumes and theatrical designs for Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Ballets. This includes works by Léon Bakst, Nikolai Roerich, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Golovin, Pablo Picasso, and Coco Chanel, as well as posters, photographs, books, sculptures, and films related to the Diaghilev troupe's work. The theatrical works of Alexander Benois, costumes by Ivan Bilibin from the late 1920s, theatrical sketches, and cubist watercolors by Alexandra Exter, along with albums of sketches by Natalia Goncharova from the 1930s, are also on display here.

The Victoria and Albert Museum possesses a collection of Russian painted icons, metal icons, church utensils, and churchware from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Its collection also includes an extensive array of Russian tapestries and decorative fabrics and lace from the 19th century, dining utensils made of engraved silver from the pre-Petrine and imperial periods, porcelain from the 18th to early 20th centuries, and a collection of pre-revolutionary and Soviet posters and luboks, including works by Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Gustav Klutsis, Viktor Deni, Nikolai Radlov, El Lissitzky, Valentina Kulagina, Dmitry Moor, and Kukryniksy, as well as posters from 1919 in support of the White Army. Among the miniatures, you can find portraits of Russian emperors: Peter the Great with a little black boy by Gustav von Mardefeld and Nicholas I, made by Ivan Vinberg. The museum also houses a bust of Mark Antokolsky 'Mephistopheles', a watercolor still life by Leonid Pasternak, and a collection of contemporary folk toys from the 1990s.

Most works of Russian art are kept in storage, but their detailed descriptions with photographs are available through the museum's electronic catalog.

Additionally, the National Art Library holds a collection of Larionov's works, 391 items acquired from the Paris home of Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, including theatrical sketches, brochures, exhibition catalogs, sketches, and designs for ballet costumes.

Currently, the V&A is collaborating with the Kremlin museums and the Hermitage, and an exhibition was planned for 2020 in partnership with the State Tretyakov Gallery and Vogue Russia archive. The exhibition was to be dedicated to the influence of Russian culture and art on global fashion, but due to the epidemic, it is likely to be postponed to a later date.