The Russian Museum from the very moment of its creation was considered, first of all, as a collection of Russian art. Now in his collection there are about 15 thousand works of painters of the 18th-20th centuries. By the time the museum opened, its collection numbered about four hundred paintings. The core of the collection was made up of receipts from three main sources - the Hermitage, the Academy of Arts and the imperial palaces - the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and suburban ones.
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The virtual tour was created on the basis of a temporary exhibition held at the Russian Museum from December 22, 2016 to March 20, 2017. The exhibition includes paintings and graphic works of the master from the collection of the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Peterhof Museum-Reserve, the Feodosia Art Gallery. I. K. Aivazovsky, as well as from other museums in Russia.
Year of creation: 2017 | Interactive program | Russian language
The virtual tour was created on the basis of a temporary exhibition held at the Russian Museum from December 2, 2016 to March 13, 2017 as part of the project "The Theater of Russian History. The House of Romanov - Facts, Legends and Myths. The Saga of the Dynasty".
The program allows you to take a virtual tour of the exhibition halls, accompanied by audio guides, to examine in detail and get additional information about each of the exhibits. As part of the tour, two films are shown: "Groot - Elizaveta Petrovna's Hoffmaler" and "The Art of the Elizabethan Time".
Year of creation: 2016 | Interactive program | Russian language
An interactive program based on the painting by Vasily Istomin allows you to get to know the ceremony participants in more detail. Among them, in addition to members of the imperial family, there were Chancellor Count A.A. Bezborodko, marshal of the district nobility P.V. Rimsky-Korsakov (grandfather of the composer N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov), military leader A.A. Arakcheev, the commissioner of the painting, Archimandrite Gerasim, and many others, the artist also depicted at least 80 Tikhvinians. The program consists of five sections and allows you to view the image in high resolution, as well as see the author's animation.
Year of creation: 2016 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 33:11
The film was created on the basis of a number of artifacts of the 18th century and a painting by V. Istomin from the collection of the Russian Museum "The Transfer of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin on June 9, 1798" 1801.
Year of establishment: 2016 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 12:48
The film tells about the work of I.K. Aivazovsky, a famous painter, artist of the Main Naval Staff. His paintings of the raging sea, sea battles, the Ecumenical Flood are widely known, but have we ever thought about the means by which the master conveys the element of water.
Year of creation: 2016 | Multimedia film | in two parts | Language: Russian | Duration: 21:12; 12:08
The film in two parts is dedicated to the main court painter of the Elizabethan era G.H. Groot and the art of the Elizabethan time.
Year of creation: 2016 | Interactive program | Virtual tour of the exhibition | Language: Russian, English
Virtual tour based on temporary exhibition "Peter I. Time and Environment", held at the Russian Museum from December 17, 2015 to April 3, 2016.
Year of creation: 2016 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 15:09
The film is dedicated to the life and work of an outstanding master of landscape painting, who, after a brilliant graduation from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, received the right to a long trip to Italy to improve his skills, where he remained until the end of his life.
Year of creation: 2015 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the event depicted on the canvas by the artist M.-F. Kvadal, - the coronation of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna in 1797. The solemn ceremony took place within the walls of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 16:24
The film is dedicated to two well-known works from the collection of the Russian Museum, paintings by B.M. Demonstration on Uritsky Square "(1921) and V.V. Kuptsov" ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" (1934).
Year of creation: 2015 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 08:25
The film tells about one of the discoveries of restorers, which can be called truly sensational. From the first years of its existence, the Russian Museum has kept the “Portrait of a Young Man in a Green Caftan”. The assumption that the author of it could be an outstanding master of the early 18th century, the "hoff-maler" of Peter the Great, Ivan Nikitin, has now received undoubted documentary confirmation.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 04:38
The film tells about the painting by Karl Steiben, dedicated to a dramatic episode in the life of the young Tsarevich Peter Alekseevich. It captures the moment of the Streltsy rebellion, provoked by the de facto ruler of the Russian state, Tsarina Sophia, when 10-year-old Peter was in mortal danger.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 04:30
The film, dedicated to a little-known painting by the artist Adolphe Charlemagne, reveals one of the sinister pages of the era of the beginning of Peter's reign. Its plot was a conspiracy against the tsar, which had matured among high-ranking boyars and archery commanders. The conspiracy was headed by Colonel of the Streltsy troops Ivan Eliseevich Tsykler, under whose name the conspiracy went down in history.
Year of establishment: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:30
The film tells about one of the lifetime portraits of Peter I, which was made by his court painter, a Saxon by origin, I.G. Tannauer. The Emperor is depicted on the battlefield at the moment of victory over the army of King Charles XII and the troops of his ally Hetman Mazepa.
Year of establishment: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:20
The painting "The Capture of Azov" (1702) is an example of the reflection of a real historical event in the Russian art of Petrine time. Then, as a result of the Azov campaigns of Tsar Peter Alekseevich, the Ottoman Empire suffered its first major defeat, and Russia gained a foothold at the mouth of the Don and gained access to the southern seas.
Year of establishment: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:50
In the film, created according to the script of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev, tells about the work of the European famous artist of the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries M.-F. Kvadal, depicting the coronation of Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna, which took place on April 5, 1897 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 03:10
A film about the famous painting by N.N. Ge reveals the circumstances of the tragic confrontation between Peter I and Tsarevich Alexei (1690-1718), Peter's eldest son from his first wife Evdokia Lopukhina.
Year of establishment: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 06:00
Among the many, often shocking reforms of Peter the Great, one of the most famous innovations was the holding of unprecedented public meetings - assemblies.
Year of establishment: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 03:34
In 1846, the painter of the Main Naval Staff I.K. Aivazovsky created a number of battle works dedicated to the events of the Northern War with the Swedes: the naval battles of Revel, Vyborg, Krasnaya Gorka, which played the role of a temporary shelter for the Peter's fleet during the capture of Vyborg in 1710.
Year of creation: 2014 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of participants in the competition "Sport in Russian Fine Arts", which was held in 2013 among visitors and heads of information and educational centers "Russian Museum: Virtual Branch" and was timed to coincide with the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of the virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Barnaul, Vsevolozhsk, Yekaterinburg, Kohtla-Jarve (Estonia), Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Petrozavodsk, Tambov, Tver, Orsha (Belarus), Petersburg, Sosnovy Bor and Syktyvkar.
Year of creation: 2014 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, English, Italian
The multimedia program brings together about 500 works by Russian artists who worked in Italy and Italian masters who left their mark on Russian art, including those who made a significant contribution to the architectural appearance of the palaces of the Russian Museum.
Year of creation: 2014 | Video presentation | Russian language
The collection of the Russian Museum makes it possible again and again to closely examine the aesthetics of the environment that formed the artist Nicholas Roerich, philosopher and writer. The video presentation presents the exhibits of the collection, created once by the St. Petersburg art association "World of Art" and artists close to this circle.
Year of creation: 2014 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program brought together about 1,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative, applied and monumental art, as well as caricatures from the collections of the Russian Museum and collections of 60 art museums in Russia.
Year of creation: 2014 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:40
The film, created according to the scenario of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev, based on high-precision shooting of the painting by G.G. Chernetsova "Parade and Prayer on the occasion of the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on the Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg" significantly expands the understanding of the Nikolaev era, introduces the characters of a unique group portrait.
Year of creation: 2014 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 09:40
The film tells about a significant event in the life of the imperial family and the entire royal dynasty. When baptized from the Lutheran faith into Orthodoxy, Louise Maria Augusta, daughter of the Margrave of Baden Karl Ludwig, the bride of Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, was named Elizaveta Alekseevna in 1793.
Year of creation: 2014 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 14:50
The film is dedicated to an important event in the history of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church - the transfer on June 9, 1798 of a particularly revered relic - the miraculous icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin of the Tikhvin Monastery to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin after the completion of its repair and renovation of the murals. The painting by the artist Vasily Istomin, executed in 1801, captured this solemn event, described in detail in the St. Petersburg Vedomosti.
Year of creation: 2014 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 08:54
The film contains a detailed story about the portrait of Paul I in the attire of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, received by the Russian Museum in 1897 from the Romanov Gallery of the Winter Palace.
Year of establishment: 2013 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of participants of the competition of the same name, which was held in 2012 by the Russian Museum among visitors and heads of virtual branches of the Russian Museum. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of the virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Vsevolozhsk, Gomel, Gorno-Altaisk, Yekaterinburg, Kirishi, Kostroma, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Tagil, Tambov, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Sosnovy Bor and Kharkov.
Year of establishment: 2013 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 15:40
The multimedia film is dedicated to the most famous painting by Grigory Chernetsov "Parade on the occasion of the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on the Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg" (1837).
Year of establishment: 2013 | Interactive program | Russian language
The interactive program is dedicated to the most famous painting by Grigory Chernetsov "Parade on the occasion of the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on the Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg" (1837).
Year of establishment: 2012 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of the participants of the competition "Italy in Russian Fine Arts", which was held in 2011 by the Russian Museum among visitors and heads of virtual branches of the Russian Museum. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of the virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Barnaul, Vsevolozhsk, Gomel, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Nizhny Tagil, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Tver and Tula. They use the works of the Russian Museum and regional collections, which reflect the theme of the Russian-Italian cultural heritage.
Year of establishment: 2012 | Game computer program | 6+ | Russian language
The program "Fireflies" is the next, the third in a series of children's games "Peers" (the first came out in 2009). The game is intended for children aged 6-9, as well as their parents, teachers and everyone who loves the Russian Museum and Russian art. The game is dedicated to the issues of light (illumination) in painting.
The film was shot at the exhibition of the Russian Museum “Clio's Chosen Ones. Heroes and Villains of Russian History. The leitmotif of the story of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev was the reforming activity of Emperor Alexander II, which overnight changed the lives of hundreds of people and, of course, was reflected in Russian painting.
Year of establishment: 2011 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:49
Russian everyday painting is striking in its breadth, with which it covers the most significant aspects of the then reality. One of the first places in it is the Russian village. The everyday genre shows the viewer not only the hardships of peasant life, but also the charm of everyday life. In the film V.A. Gusev, we will talk about the paintings of such artists as A.G. Venetsianov, G.V. Soroka, K.E. Makovsky, A.P. Ryabushkin and others.
Year of establishment: 2011 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:53
Author's program of Vladimir Gusev. Peter I was the first Russian ruler who systematically built a myth about himself and the period of his reign. The image of Peter has always been romanticized. As A.S. Pushkin: “Now an academician, now a hero, now a navigator, now a carpenter.” The Russian Museum has a large collection of works dedicated to the image of the great emperor. The program includes a kind of picturesque life of Peter I.
Year of establishment: 2011 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
This film is based on the paintings presented at the exhibition “Clio's Chosen Ones. Heroes and Villains of Russian History. Director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev tells the audience about those works, plots and people that are associated with the main events in the history of the formation of Russian statehood.
Audiovisual lectures by Senior Researcher of the Russian Museum, Honored Worker of Culture Regina Abramovna Gelman are devoted to several masterpieces from the collection of the Russian Museum. You can learn about what a "still life" is, how I.E. Repin created his work "Barge Haulers on the Volga" or how, at the most difficult moment of his life, V.I. Surikov decided to write "The Capture of a Snowy Town".
Year of establishment: 2010 | Interactive program | Russian language
This program was prepared for the exhibition of the same name, which presented about 200 works from the collection of the Russian Museum: paintings, drawings and decorative and applied arts of the 1910-1970s, related to the industrial theme. Much of the work was exhibited for the first time.
Year of establishment: 2010 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:59
The film is dedicated to four exhibitions held at the Russian Museum in 2010. The exhibition "Sky" showed works (from icons to contemporary art), one way or another connected with the "heavenly" theme; "Hymn to Labor" - paintings by representatives of socialist realism and the avant-garde. As part of the exhibition "Smolyanki" by Dmitry Levitsky, for the first time after a large-scale restoration, the audience saw portraits of students of the Smolny Institute, and the exhibition "From Russian Life in the 18th - early 20th centuries" introduced the development of the everyday genre in works of graphics, sculpture and decorative art from the collection of the Russian museum.
In 1994, the famous German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig presented the Russian Museum with a collection of works by artists of the second half of the 20th century.
This film is dedicated to the permanent exhibition of the Marble Palace - the Ludwig Museum - the only museum exhibition in Russia where you can see the classic works of world contemporary art from the post-war period to the beginning of the 21st century.
Year of establishment: 2010 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:50
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the artist Isaac Levitan, one of the best masters of landscape painting. Having made nature the protagonist of his canvases, Levitan created landscapes that have their own mood and are understandable to every viewer.
Year of establishment: 2010 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:00
This film is dedicated to a special category of landscape painters who painted their works during long-distance expeditions, military campaigns or travels. Such artists were hired specifically to capture the expanses they saw or capture military campaigns. Among these masters P.N.Mikhailov, who, with the team of F.F. Bellingshausen and M.P. Lazarev, reached Antarctica, P.P. Svinin, who traveled a lot, including America, one of the results of his travels was the publication album with views of Russia, as well as M.M. Ivanov, who captured the journey of Empress Catherine II in 1785.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:47
Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky is one of the best portrait painters in the Russian history of painting. In this film, the director of the Russian Museum, V.A. Gusev, tells about the master's work and the history of his work on a series of portraits of pupils of the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film will focus on the most fragile and delicate of all graphic and pictorial techniques - pastel, which was presented at the exhibition "Pastel in Russia" in the Mikhailovsky Castle of the Russian Museum
Year of creation: 2010 | Game computer program | 10+ | Russian language
Year of creation: 2010 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, English
The program dedicated to the palaces and gardens of the Russian Museum includes 220 spherical panoramas. With the help of panoramic shooting technology, the interiors and appearance of the Mikhailovsky, Marble and Stroganov palaces, the Mikhailovsky Castle, the Summer Palace of Peter I and the House of Peter I are reproduced.
Year of establishment: 2010 | Interactive program | Russian language
The multimedia program was released for the exhibition dedicated to the 275th anniversary of the birth of Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky in the Russian Museum. The program tells about the restoration of the famous "Smolyanki" - seven portraits of pupils of the Educational Society for Noble Maidens at the Smolny Institute.
This program has been prepared for the exhibition of the same name at the Russian Museum and is dedicated to the beer theme in art. For centuries, beer served Russian artists as a muse, a model, a source of plots, a prototype of color and form, and set a specific beer emotional tone for the works. Different moments of making and drinking beer caused the need to capture, sing, generalize, reflect.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 10:00
The multimedia film is dedicated to the work of A.P. Ryabushkin, a Russian artist who is best known for his historical easel painting.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev is known in Russia and abroad as the organizer of the Russian Seasons, but few people know that Diaghilev made a great contribution to the development of not only Russian ballet, but also Russian fine arts. We can say that for the Russian public, too, he opened his eyes to his own history and culture. V. Gusev's film is dedicated to that unknown side of Diaghilev's life, which is inextricably linked with the history of Russian art and which resulted in a large-scale portrait exhibition in 1905 in the Tauride Palace.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:57
The Makovskys are a famous creative dynasty. Its founder, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky (1802-1886), is a well-known collector and passionate lover of art, who is at the forefront of the creation of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:00
This film will focus on the portrait of Nikita Akinfievich Demidov by the French artist Louis Toquet, who came from Paris to St. Petersburg specifically to work on the portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. During his rather long stay in Russia, the master painted several well-known portraits of the Russian aristocracy.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program tells about the development of the Russian avant-garde from neo-primitivism to abstraction. Created specifically to help lecturers and students who wish to independently and deeply study Russian art.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film consists of several short stories on the theme "The life of nature and man ...". Based on materials from temporary exhibitions of the museum, it is told that nature in a work of art is not just a decoration, but helps to create an artistic image that arouses empathy in the viewer.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian, English, Spanish | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the work of VL Borovikovsky, about his innovation in portrait art, about creating intimate portraits of his contemporaries.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 31:00
The film is dedicated to the work of the artist Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin, who is rightly called the master of genre and historical paintings, unique in their execution.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Interactive program | Virtual exhibition | Language: Russian, English, Estonian
The multimedia program is the first project to identify and present works by artists of the 18th-19th centuries associated with the national art school of the Republic of Estonia in the funds of the Russian Museum. The goal of the program is to include in the cultural life the works of Estonian artists who studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and combined their work in St. Petersburg with life in their homeland.
Year of establishment: 2009 | Game computer program | 6+, special version for hearing impaired children | Language: Russian, English, Greek
In the interactive game, children are offered tasks traditional for quest games and original mini-games developed on the basis of the works of Russian painters of the 18th-20th centuries.
The film tells about the history of the appearance in 1915 of the "Black Square" by K.S.Malevich, created by the author as an affirmation of a new worldview, a new Suprematist world. Vladimir Gusev talks about the unique exhibition "The Adventures of the Black Square".
Year of establishment: 2008 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
A film about two representatives of the Russian avant-garde: Vera Ermolaeva, a master of painting and graphics, and Nikolai Suetin, a suprematist, student and associate of Kazimir Malevich.
Year of establishment: 2008 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes an electronic catalog of pictorial and graphic materials from the heritage of the largest Russian realistic artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (about 150 works), articles by specialists, a chronicle of life and work. There is a mode for creating your own album of images, as well as the function of copying articles to the clipboard.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:00
For the exhibition "Soviet Venus" a multimedia film of the same name was created, which is a kind of introduction to the iconographic traditions of the embodiment of the image of Venus.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:45
The large-scale exposition of the exhibition "The Seasons" covers the main stages in the development of the Russian landscape. Winter, spring, summer, autumn in the works of famous Russian painters of the XIX-XX centuries - Sylvester Shchedrin, Mikhail Lebedev, Alexander Ivanov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and others.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum, V.A. Gusev, tells the audience about three exhibitions of the Russian Museum, which the museum opened in 2007: “The Seasons” (Benois building), “Vrubel. To the 150th Anniversary of Birth” (Benoit building) and “Herbarium of Love” (Mikhailovsky Castle).
Year of establishment: 2007 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
Director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev tells in this film about how the Academy of Arts was founded, what principles of education were laid in its basis, what were the conditions for studying and how students were awarded for their successes at the opened exhibition “Academy of Arts. 1757-2007. To the 250th anniversary of the foundation.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:42
The film is dedicated to one of the most famous Russian artists Mikhail Vrubel. In the film, the viewer will not find a chronological description of the artist's life, but will be able to get acquainted with a mosaic of facts, quotes and events that will help to form their own impression of the artist.
The program presents works of painting, graphics, sculpture and arts and crafts from the collections of the Russian Museum and the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. F. Kovalenko, united by the era of Catherine II - a formal portrait, porcelain, monumental and portrait sculpture.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes paintings and graphic works of the artist belonging to the collection of the Russian Museum, sculpture, objects of decorative and applied art, executed in the technique of majolica. The program includes about 200 images with annotations for each work and the opportunity to view enlarged fragments.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents more than 200 paintings and drawings by the brothers Apollinaria and Viktor Vasnetsov from the collections of 27 museums in the country, as well as from private collections.
Year of establishment: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the work of Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858), who in many respects determines the face of the Russian national school of painting, an excellent draftsman, and thinker.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 39:02
In this film, Filonov appears to the viewer not only as an artist, but also as a person who sincerely, in his own way, like any genius, loved his wife. Their marriage can be called an age misalliance: she was sixty-two years old, he was forty-three. Filonov was madly in love with his wife. He wrote amazing and tender letters to her, dedicated the pages of his diary to her, which is now kept in the collections of the Russian Museum.
The film tells about the happy stories of the return of several works of art to the collection of the Russian Museum: “Portrait of P.V. Basin” by Orest Kiprensky, “Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna” by artist Fyodor Bognevsky, “Winter Landscape” by Ivan Endogurov and “Children who released a bird” brushes of an unknown artist circle Venetsianov.
The film tells about the art collection of the Russian Museum of the 20th century, which made it possible to “reconstruct” the atmosphere of the artistic life of the USSR in the era of the 1960s-80s of the 20th century, the era of the great confrontation between the two worlds in Soviet art, within the framework of the exhibition “Time of Changes”.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:41
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev again refers to the long-term program of the Russian Museum "Russia", which enables viewers, moving from city to city, from museum to museum, to discover more and more new stories of life and work, sometimes surprisingly artists we know, and often see and learn a lot for the first time.
The audience will visit the Volga, where I. Repin painted his famous "Barge haulers on the Volga", in Perm in the art gallery of wooden sculpture, as well as in Saratov, where V. Borisov-Musatov lived and worked.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
The film is based on materials from the Russian Museum exhibition of the same name, dedicated to the analytical art of Pavel Filonov. The audience is waiting for the story of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev about the difficult circumstances of Filonov's life and the main postulates of his work.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:45
The event that took place in St. Petersburg at the end of September 2006 - the reburial in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg of the ashes of Empress Maria Feodorovna - the wife of Emperor Alexander III and the mother of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, could not leave anyone aside, including the Russian Museum.
In addition, this event coincided with another one - the opening of a memorial stone on the grave of the artist A.P. Bogolyubov.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum, V.A. Gusev, invites the audience to walk through the halls of the exhibition of Alexei Savrasov, the founder of the lyrical direction in the landscape genre. The time of the highest flowering of the artist's work was the 70s of the XIX century.
In two halls of the enfilade on the second floor overlooking Nevsky Prospekt, an exhibition "Family relics and contributions of the Stroganov family to Russian churches" is open. It presents the monuments of applied art, icon painting and facial sewing from the funds of the Russian Museum, associated with the Stroganov family, famous in the history of Russia.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The female portrait is the most attractive and mysterious part of the work of many artists. Two female portraits formed the basis of the film: "Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna with her daughter Maria" by Karl Bryullov and "Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna" by Vladimir Makovsky.
Year of establishment: 2006 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to fine arts and artistic life in the Soviet Union between the so-called "thaw" and the beginning of perestroika. The publication combines two opposing layers in the artistic culture of 1960-1985. The program includes about 600 images of exhibits, documentary photographs, annotations about the works presented.
The program is dedicated to the coronation of Paul I, which was captured on his canvas by the artist of French origin M.-F. Quadal. The materials of the program allow you to get an idea about the coronation ceremony, about its participants, as well as about the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, within the walls of which the ceremony took place.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Multimedia film | Russian language
The multimedia film with elements of interactivity presents K. P. Bryullov's painting "The Last Day of Pompeii" from the collection of the Russian Museum, the history of its creation, historical, archaeological monuments and works of ancient Roman art.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:38
The film tells the audience about the latest trends in the visual arts. The term "recent" art should be understood not in a chronological, but in a conceptual sense. The rich funds of the Russian Museum contain not only masterpieces selected by time, but also works that are very likely to become classics tomorrow. The audience will get acquainted with the process of forming a fund of the latest trends in art, and with the works of contemporary artists that make it up today.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:35
The film tells about a unique exhibition that opened in the Russian Museum. On the walls of the exhibition halls, accompanied by traditional museum labels, frames are hung in a strict order: but without pictures!!! Almost always, coming to the museum, viewers, as a rule, look only at the paintings. And the frame is not noticed, perceiving it as an integral part of the picture.
The third film, dedicated to the exhibitions of the Russian Museum "The Road" and "Religious Petersburg", introduces the works of painting and graphics from the collection of the Russian Museum, as well as a hidden corner of the Mikhailovsky Palace - the Church of the Archangel Michael. The film also tells about the lost churches of St. Petersburg, about the symbolic and metaphorical meaning of the road in the works of Russian art.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:46
The film invites you to visit two exhibitions of the Russian Museum: "The Road" and "Religious Petersburg", to wander among the picturesque canvases along the paths of knowledge. Moving from hall to hall, the audience will see the religious Petersburg of the 18th-19th centuries, the royal city, shining with gilded domes and spiers of numerous temples, cathedrals and churches.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
The film tells about the development of Russian church art over more than two centuries - from Peter I to Nicholas II, about Russian icons and church paintings, and about artists who devoted their lives to religious art.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 51:21
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:41
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the whole country was preparing for the holiday. And the Russian Museum is no exception. The exhibition "The Way to Victory" was presented here. It showed works of painting, graphics, sculpture, created in the period from 1941 to 1945.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:48
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is an outstanding artist of the 20th century. Today it is impossible to imagine the history of Russian and world culture without the name and work of Marc Chagall. In this film, the Russian Museum will present a grandiose exhibition of Marc Chagall, which covers two periods of the artist's work, Russian and foreign, over the course of seven decades of his activity.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 18:00
The film tells about the events that led to the assassination of Emperor Paul I, the fate of his family members after the tragedy. Numerous documents and artistic monuments of that era are shown.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes paintings, drawings and engravings, posters and sculptures created by artists in besieged Leningrad, in Moscow ready for defense, at the front, in the rear.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents twelve works by artists of the 20th century, reflecting the contemporary artistic process, from the collection of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, located in the Marble Palace. The program includes biographies of artists, descriptions of works, information about terms and artistic phenomena.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 52:00
The film tells about: female portraits (S.M. Botkina, Z.N. Yusupova, O.K. Orlova, Ida Rubinstein), reflecting changes in Serov's worldview, in his understanding of painting, etc.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes more than 200 works by the artist from the collections of the State Russian Museum (painting, drawing, engraving). Annotations about each work, articles about creativity, biographical information and documentary photographs are published.
Year of establishment: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program tells about the religious life of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and the history of St. Petersburg churches. The main part is devoted to the churches of St. Petersburg and is divided into periods of reign from Peter I to Nicholas II. Photos of temples are accompanied by biographies of architects and artists.
The program presents a tour of the halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace, which houses the main exposition of the Russian Museum. The program includes types of interiors, paintings, graphics and sculpture from the museum's collection (646 exhibits), annotations to them and information about the authors of the works.
Year of creation: 2004-2005 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 78:00
Films about an amazing exhibition in the Russian Museum, introducing viewers to paintings that were either extremely rarely exhibited or never left the museum's storerooms due to their large size.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 43:58
The name of the great Russian artist Konstantin Andreevich Somov is inextricably linked with the artistic association "World of Art". Contemporaries said about Somov that he, in his works, embodies the shadows of the past. The artist was an elegant eighteenth-century singer, revealing to the viewer the mysterious charm of the world of colorful masquerade, powdered wigs and magnificent fireworks.
The program presents I.E. Repin’s painting “The Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901 on the day of the centennial anniversary of its establishment” from the collection of the Russian Museum. The program includes biographical information about all persons - members of the State Council, depicted on the canvas.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:57
Each artist or painting has its own secrets, in this film the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev will lift the veil of secrecy. The audience will learn the secret of the origin of O. A. Kiprensky and his self-portraits, get acquainted with the participants of the Venetsianov school, as well as with the heroes of the painting by G. G. Chernetsov “Parade on the Tsaritsyn Meadow”.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:10
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the artist Boris Kustodiev. Based on the materials of the exhibition in the Russian Museum, the film makes it possible to refute the prevailing idea of Boris Kustodiev as an artist who painted exclusively magnificent, rosy-cheeked merchants, a colorful fair and a Russian village with its accordions, gingerbread cookies and samovars. More than 350 works presented at the exhibition, collected from museums from all over Russia, allow the most complete and multifaceted presentation of the huge creative heritage of Boris Kustodiev, to give an exhaustive picture of his life, the life of his contemporaries and his beloved Russia. A film about a remarkable portrait painter and a prominent representative of Russian art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is for many a real discovery of this remarkable master.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:37
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the artist Boris Kustodiev. Based on the materials of the exhibition in the Russian Museum, the film makes it possible to refute the prevailing idea of Boris Kustodiev as an artist who painted exclusively magnificent, rosy-cheeked merchants, a colorful fair and a Russian village with its accordions, gingerbread cookies and samovars.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:55
The film tells about the artist Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov, whose creativity flourished at the turn of the century, an extremely complex time and exceptionally rich in large creative individuals.
Year of establishment: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:51
The film is dedicated to the life and work of famous Russian artists, brought up in the traditions of the Saratov Art School. These are Aleksey Bogolyubov, Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Pyotr Utkin and many others who in their youth received strong artistic impressions from contact with the expressive nature of the Volga region.
Year of establishment: 2004 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. It will include masterpieces from the collection of the Russian Museum from the icon to the avant-garde, a computer film about the history of the museum, a virtual tour "From the icon to the avant-garde: four paintings from the collection of the Russian Museum."
Year of establishment: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film was shot based on the materials of the exhibition "The Coronation of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna", opened in the Mikhailovsky Castle of the Russian Museum on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Paul I. The painting by Martin Ferdinand Quadal is a unique historical document, being a group portrait of the imperial family and the first persons of the state .
The film tells about the history of the creation by Ilya Repin of the famous painting "Barge haulers on the Volga", the popularity of which has as many years as the painting itself.
Year of establishment: 2004 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 52:00
The film is dedicated to the artists who were part of the creative associations of 1910-1916 "Jack of Diamonds", "Donkey's Tail" and "Target". The young avant-garde artists who participated in the exhibitions of these associations contrasted their work with the work of symbolist artists.
Year of establishment: 2004 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes more than 400 works by B.M. Kustodiev from museums, libraries and private collections in Russia. You can get acquainted with the biography of the artist, see his work; There are chronological and alphabetical indexes.
Year of establishment: 2004 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, Finnish
The program includes works by artists from the collections of two museums - the State Russian Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, dedicated to the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala". Contains annotations to works, biographies of artists.
Year of establishment: 2003 | Video film | Language: Russian, English, Spanish | Duration: 26:00
Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858) was born in the artist's family. His father, Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, was a professor at the Academy of Arts, where he spent the entire first half of his son's life. After graduating from the Academy, the young man, who carefully studied the samples of classical art kept in the Hermitage, the Stroganov Gallery, and other private collections, went to Italy. Everything was there: creative discoveries, joys and sorrows, strange meetings, friendship with N.V. Gogol and inner loneliness. And most importantly - work on a huge canvas "The Appearance of Christ to the People."
Year of establishment: 2003 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:51
The first film in a series of programs dedicated to the tercentenary of St. Petersburg. This film presents one unusual day in the life of the Russian Museum. The viewer is waiting for a fascinating story by the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev about the history of the appearance of the Summer Garden as part of the Russian Museum complex, as well as about the exhibits of the exhibition “St. Petersburg. Portrait of the city and citizens.
Year of establishment: 2003 | Video film | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
The losses suffered by our country and our people during the Great Patriotic War are truly incalculable. But the collection of the Russian Museum was practically not damaged - not a single exhibit was lost or even damaged. This became possible only thanks to the heroic work of the museum staff, who rescued, evacuated and preserved the art treasures with all their might. The museum's collection continued to grow during the war years. He accepted the Russian Museum for safekeeping the most valuable works of artists who remained to live and work in besieged Leningrad.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 25:58
From the second half of the 18th century, relations between St. Petersburg and Italy were not exclusively official and did not consist only of diplomatic missions, delegations and gift exchanges between the reigning persons. The close interweaving of the threads of family ties between Russia and Italy allows us to establish interesting facts related to the artists and people depicted in the paintings, customers and intermediaries, as well as the fate of the works themselves.
Year of establishment: 2003 | Russian language | Duration: 25:55
The film deals with works of painting, sculpture, graphics, arts and crafts from the collection of the Russian Museum and museums in Rome, Naples, Florence, Milan, as well as from private collections in Italy, presented at the exhibition of the Russian Museum of the same name.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 25:46
Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov (1882-1941) - painter, graphic artist. His paintings were destined for a long forced oblivion, then a way out of oblivion and recognition, but still Filonov remains the most mysterious and most incomprehensible of the masters of the Russian avant-garde, a lonely and tragic figure in the art of the twentieth century.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:24
The sixties of the 19th century were a period of brilliant flowering of Russian realistic art. Russian painting vividly and diversifiedly reflected contemporary life: sharp social contradictions, and poverty, and the grief of a working person, and an inextinguishable faith in a better future, and even the emergence of terrorism in Russia, which F.M. Dostoevsky tried to say in his novel " Demons". All these phenomena were embodied in the canvases of Russian artists F. Vasiliev, N. Ge, I. Kramskoy, G. Myasoedov, V. Pukirev, V. Perov.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:41
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836). An artist who created a gallery of portraits of remarkable people of Russian society in the era of romanticism. The beginning of the 19th century is rightly called the "golden age" of Russian painting.
Year of establishment: 2003 | interactive program | Russian language
The program includes more than 400 full-screen reproductions of paintings and drawings from the collection of the State Russian Museum, which represent a collective image of St. Petersburg in various historical eras
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
This film is a continuation of acquaintance with the collection of the State Russian Museum, located at the main exposition in the Mikhailovsky Palace. Particular attention in the film is paid to the decoration of the palace halls, sculpture, folk art items exhibited in the halls of the museum, as well as other art objects from the storerooms, which are exhibited at numerous exhibitions organized by the Russian Museum.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
Continuation of the story about the history of the portrait, begun in the film 1. The viewer is introduced to the history of Russian portraiture from the middle of the 19th century, its features, the era of the Wanderers, a portrait of the late 19th century, early 20th century, portraits of the first decades of Soviet power, as well as portraits of the totalitarian era 60 -s.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
A film-walk through the Russian Museum, during which the viewer gets acquainted with the first Russian portraits - "parsuns" of Peter the Great, masterpieces of the 18th century, as well as a romantic portrait of the 19th century.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the history of the origin of the portrait genre, introduces the existing types of portrait images, about the ways of conveying unique, individual features of appearance and character.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the history of the landscape genre, its origin and separation into an independent genre, tells about the history of the creation of various paintings.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the originality of the still life genre, its features, about the history of the development of Russian still life over the past two centuries, using the works of famous painters as an example.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
During a virtual walk through the exposition of the Russian Museum, the viewer is told why the paintings are so different from each other, what determines their originality and uniqueness of the images presented on them, how to understand the special language of painting.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 52:00
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836) - an artist who created a gallery of portraits of remarkable people of Russian society in the era of romanticism. One of the first works of Orest Kiprensky is a portrait of Adam Schwalbe (1804). The portrait painted on a wooden board seemed to be the work of a European master of the 17th century.
Year of establishment: 2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 52:00
Alexander Ivanov, starting to work on the canvas, wanted the work to contain universal ideas, to be in tune with modernity. Twenty-five years of work on the picture are years of continuous searches, changes, improvements. In the end, he literally hid behind his huge canvas, afraid of returning to Russia - they were no longer waiting for him there ...
Year of establishment: 2003 | interactive program | Language: Russian, English, Chinese, Finnish
The program shows about 400 exhibits from the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum. These are works covering the period from the XII century. until the 20th century - painting and sculpture.
Year of creation: 2002-2003 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the work of the artist Ilya Efimovich Repin on a large-scale painting "Meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901, on the day of the centennial anniversary of its establishment."
Year of creation: 2002 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 26:01
The exhibition at the Russian Museum has become a kind of return to the homeland of the world-famous masters of Russian art - emigrant artists Natalia Goncharova and Lev Bakst.
Year of creation: 2002 | video film | Russian language | Duration: 25:40
The film by V.A. Gusev is dedicated to the 1860s - one of the most interesting, controversial and extremely important periods in the history of Russia and Russian art. The essence of this time is determined by the pathos of denunciation and direct criticism by artists of the surrounding reality. Unusual responsiveness to pressing issues of social life, intolerance to evil, sincerity in expressing one's ideas, consonant with the mood of the artistic intelligentsia of Russia at that time, make the art of the "sixties" an extremely significant phenomenon.
Creativity I.E. Repin (1844-1930) is one of the most significant phenomena in Russian art. In his works, he captured history and modernity, created a whole gallery of portraits of remarkable people of his era.
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Portrait of Shishkin
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Portrait of Yefim Repin
His works are distinguished by a vivid characterization of images, authenticity of life and amaze with amazing pictorial skill. The great talent of the artist manifested itself already in the painting "The Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus" (1871), created as a graduation program at the end of Repin's Academy of Arts.
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Resurrection of the daughter of Jairus
The versatility of the artist's talent was already manifested in the fact that, simultaneously with working on this canvas, he was working on a work that was completely different in plot and pictorial tasks.
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Barge Haulers on the Volga
These were "Barge haulers on the Volga" (1870-1873). The picture became an innovative work in Russian art. For the first time, people from the people appeared on the canvas in close-up, each with its own character, masterfully conveyed by the artist.
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Sadko
The canvas “Sadko” (1876) exhibited in the hall was created during a trip abroad after graduating from the Academy of Arts as a reporting work, for which the painter was awarded the title of academician.
Hall 34
One of the central works in Repin's work, a work to which he attached great importance, is the painting "The Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan" (1880-1891). Carrying out the idea, the artist studied historical documents, visited Zaporozhye and Kuban. This topic captivated Repin so much that he did not let go for more than ten years. Repin, with amazing freedom and skill, depicted the various characters of people and the shades of laughter on their faces - from a thin smile on the intelligent face of ataman Ivan Serko to the rolling laughter of a mustachioed Cossack in a red coat.
I.E. Repin. Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan
In the same hall there are Repin's paintings "Seeing the Recruit" and "Nikolai Mirlikisky Saves the Death of Three Innocently Convicted", portraits of the critic V.V. Stasov, the composer A.G. Rubinshtein and the physiologist I.R. Tarkhanov.
I.E. Repin. Seeing off a recruit
Repin Ilya Efimovich. Nikolai Mirlikisky saves three innocently convicted from death
Repin Ilya Efimovich. Portrait of the artist S.M. Dragomirova
Ilya Efimovich Repin. Portrait of the singer A.N.Molas. 1883
I.E. Repin - Portrait of the critic V.V. Stasov.
Repin I.E. Portrait of the physiologist I.R. Tarkhanov. 1892.
Repin Ilya Efimovich. Portrait of the composer A.G. Rubinstein
The hall exhibits the canvases “What a space!”, “Belorus”, portraits of the composer N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Countess N.A. Golovina, timber merchant and propagandist of Russian music M.P. Belyaev.
I.E. Repin. What space!
Repin Ilya Efimovich. Belarusian
I.E. Repin portrait of the composer N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov
I.E. Repin portrait of M.P. Belyaev
I.E. Repin. Portrait of Countess N.P. Golovina
The painting “October 17, 1905” is a response to the manifesto of Nicholas II of October 17, 1905 “On the improvement of the state order”, published during the days of the revolutionary upsurge in the country.
Repin wrote: “The picture depicts the procession of the liberation movement of Russian progressive society ... mainly students, female students, professors and workers with red flags, enthusiastic; with the singing of revolutionary songs ... lifted on the shoulders of the amnestied and a crowd of thousands moving across the square of the big city in the ecstasy of general jubilation.
Hall 36 and further
Collection of works by V.I. Surikov is one of the most significant in the collection of the Russian Museum. The genre painting "The Capture of the Snow Town" (1891), painted by the artist in his homeland in Krasnoyarsk, opens a new period in his work, associated with the creation of three monumental canvases on the plots of the heroic history of Russia. “Two elements meet” - this is how Surikov defines the main idea of the epic painting “The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak” (1895), by the creation of which he seemed to affirm his connection with Siberia, with the Cossacks. The painting "Suvorov Crossing the Alps" (1899) is dedicated to the legendary event of 1799. “The main thing in the picture,” said Surikov, “is movement. Selfless courage, - obedient to the word of the commander, they go ... ".
IN AND. Surikov. Taking the snow town
IN AND. Surikov. Conquest of Siberia by Yermak
IN AND. Surikov. Suvorov crossing the Alps
In Surikov's last large canvas, Stepan Razin (1907), one can feel the tendencies of the new Russian pictorial realism - eventlessness, poetization of history, extreme activity of the landscape and the search for monumental forms of expression.
In the halls dedicated to the painter's work, in addition to historical paintings and preparatory works for them, one can see both early academic compositions and magnificent portraits of the late period. “Portrait of an Unknown Woman on a Yellow Background”, “Siberian Woman” is the embodiment of Surikov’s favorite type of feminine beauty full of harmony. "Self-portrait" of 1915 is the last of the fourteen images created by the artist.
Surikov Vasily Ivanovich Stepan Razin
IN AND. Surikov. Portrait of an unknown woman on a yellow background
IN AND. Surikov. Siberian
IN AND. Surikov. Old man gardener 1882
Surikov Vasily Ivanovich View of the monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg
Surikov Vasily Ivanovich Feast of Belshazzar
V.M. Vasnetsov combined in his convictions the democratic humanism characteristic of the Wanderers with deep religiosity and national feeling.
The artist did not immediately find his theme. The painting "Balagany in the outskirts of Paris" (1876), which gives an idea of the early period of creativity, is close to the works of genre painters of the 1860-1870s with their critical and accusatory orientation.
V.M. Vasnetsov. Booths near Paris
In the early 1880s, Vasnetsov created the first fairy-tale battle canvases: The Battle of the Scythians with the Slavs (1881) and The Knight at the Crossroads (1882). Having chosen national-historical themes for his paintings, the artist combines knowledge of the folk epic with the skill of a genre painter, transforms the Russian historical genre, immersing the motifs of Medieval Rus' into the atmosphere of a poetic legend or fairy tale.
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Battle of the Scythians with the Slavs
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Knight at the Crossroads
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Accordion
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich At the Bookseller's (1876)
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Portrait of Tatyana Vasnetsova, the artist's daughter
In the same room, the image of the Mother of God with the Christ Child in her arms is presented - one of the sketches for the murals of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv, on which Vasnetsov worked for more than ten years.
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Our Lady
Repin's most significant works include the monumental painting "The Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901, on the day of the centennial anniversary of its establishment" (1903), a grandiose group portrait painted by order of the government in 1901-1903. Repin attracted two of his students to his performance - B.M. Kustodiev and I.S. Kulikov. In the painting, Repin brilliantly solved the difficult problem of natural and free placement of more than sixty figures of the participants in the meeting (the round columned hall of the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg is depicted).
In the process of preparing the painting, Repin painted many portrait studies of members of the State Council, some of which are also placed in the hall.
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Virtual walks around the Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg. Part 7
You can know the Hermitage expositions thoroughly, you can perfectly navigate the Tretyakov Gallery, you can be ready at any moment to give your friends an impromptu tour of the Pushkin Museum, but still do not consider yourself an expert in Russian art. And all why? Because without the Russian Museum in this case nowhere! Today we recall the history of the museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Russian art in the world.
Art lover Alexander III
On April 13, 1895, Emperor Nicholas II issued a decree according to which the "Russian Museum named after Emperor Alexander III" was to be established in St. Petersburg. And the museum was officially opened only on March 8, 1898. But the idea of creating a museum came to Alexander III's mind long before that. In his youth, the future Emperor Alexander III was fond of art and even studied painting himself with Professor Tikhobrazov. A little later, his wife, Maria Fedorovna, shared his passion, and the two of them continued their studies under the strict guidance of Academician Bogolyubov.
Alexander III with his wife and three older children. 1878 Having assumed power, the emperor realized that it was impossible to combine government and painting, and therefore abandoned his art. But he did not lose his love for art, and squandered significant sums from the treasury on the purchase of works of art that were no longer placed either in Gatchina, or in the Winter Palace, or in the Anichkov Palace. It was then that Alexander decided to create a state museum in which the paintings of Russian painters could be stored, and which would correspond to the prestige of the country, raised the patriotic mood and all that.
It is believed that for the first time the emperor expressed the idea after the 17th exhibition of the Association of the Wanderers in 1889, where he acquired Repin's painting "Nicholas of Myra saves three innocently convicted from death."
Special status of the Russian Museum
By 1895, they managed to create a project for the construction of the building of the Museum of Russian Art at the Academy of Arts and even finish the estimate, but on October 21, 1894, Alexander III died, and it seemed that the museum would never become a reality. But Nicholas II got down to business. He decided to give the Mikhailovsky Palace bought to the treasury for the needs of the museum.
The regulations on the museum in 1897 emphasized its special status. Special rules for creating a collection were fixed, for example, works by contemporary artists had to be in the museum at the Academy of Arts for 5 years first, and only then, at the choice of the manager, they could be placed in the Russian Museum.
Art objects placed in the museum were supposed to remain there forever - that is, they could not be taken away or transferred to any other place.
The manager was appointed by the highest personal decree and must necessarily belong to the Imperial House.
Charlemagne I. I., View of the Mikhailovsky Palace from the park and square. 1850s. With the world on a thread - collection to the museum
At first, the museum collection consisted of paintings collected by Alexander III, which were transferred from the Academy of Arts, the Hermitage, for example, the famous painting by Karl Bryullov “The Last Day of Pompeii”. Winter, Gatchina and Alexander Palaces. Part of the collection was purchased from private collections. As Nicholas II decided, in the future the collection was to be replenished at the expense of the treasury, which even introduced a separate paragraph for the museum, and thanks to possible donations.
Surprisingly, there were many of them, the size of the collection grew rapidly and almost doubled compared to the original 1.5 thousand works and 5000 exhibits from the Museum of Christian Antiquities. The “color of the nation” was enrolled in the first staff of the museum - the most prominent scientists, art critics and historians, for example, A.P. Benois, P.A. Bryullov, M.P. Botkin, N.N. Punin and others.
Museum life in the 20th century
Thanks to the State Museum Fund, which worked in the first years after the October Revolution, the museum's collection grew rapidly after 1917. Large gaps in the collection were filled in, for example, some trends in Russian painting were not presented at the museum for some time, and the collection of some was extremely scarce.
In 1922, the museum's exposition was built for the first time according to the scientific and historical principle, which brought the museum to a qualitatively new level. But the building of the Mikhailovsky Palace alone was not enough for the expanded collection, and gradually the museum began to "conquer the territory." In the 1930s, the Rossi wing in the Mikhailovsky Palace, which had been occupied by tenants until then, was vacated and moved to the Russian Museum, and a little later, the ethnographic department “moved out” from the parental nest of the Russian Museum, which became the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR. In the 40s, the Benois building and the Mikhailovsky Palace were even connected by a special passage.
The Grand Drawing Room of the Mikhailovsky Palace in St. Petersburg Luigi Premazzi. Where to go and what to see?
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Summer Garden with a collection of marble sculptures (yes, yes, there are only copies in the Summer Garden now), as well as the Summer Palace of Peter I, the Coffee and Tea Houses located in it, passed into the possession of the Russian Museum. The house of Peter I on Petrovskaya Embankment, which also belongs to the Russian Museum, was first built of logs, but after a while it was covered with stone, and a little later with a brick cover.
Among the most famous works of art stored in the Russian Museum are the icons of Andrei Rublev and Simon Ushakov, Bryullov's paintings "Italian Noon" and "The Last Day of Pompeii", Aivazovsky's "The Ninth Wave" and "Wave", "Barge haulers on the Volga" brush Repin, "The Knight at the Crossroads" by Vanetsov, "Suvorov Crossing the Alps" by Surikov, "The Portrait of Ida Rubinstein" and "The Abduction of Europe" by Serov, "The Portrait of F. I. Chaliapin" by Kustodiev. But this is only a small part of those beautiful paintings by Russian painters that are stored in the Russian Museum.
Valentin Serov. Portrait of Ida Rubinstein It is better to see it once - if you are planning a trip to St. Petersburg, be sure to visit the Russian Museum.
I spent the morning and evening of the second day in St. Petersburg walking around the city. What I talked about in detail in.
The weather was just perfect. But besides the walk, I also visited one very interesting art museum, where you can see only "Russian"!
P.S. Attention! There is a lot of information under the cut and about 150 photos!
Russian Museum, - the first state museum of Russian fine arts in the country! It was conceived by Alexander III, and then in 1895 founded by his son, Emperor Nicholas II.
But first, in 1819-1825, in the building where the museum is located today, a luxurious Mikhailovsky Palace! It served as the seat of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the youngest son of Paul I.
Entering the territory, you find yourself in front yard, on the sides of which two lions were installed, as an indicator of power! They created an atmosphere of solemnity and received guests of the palace. Lions are also depicted on the facade of the building.
The museum is quite easy to find, it is located in the very center of the city on Embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, house 2. The nearest metro station, - Nevsky Avenue.
Official website of the Museum: http://www.rusmuseum.ru
Working mode:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - from 10:00 to 18:00
Thursday - from 13:00 to 21:00
Tuesday - day off
Ticket offices close half an hour earlier
The ticket cost me 280 rubles.
The museum allows amateur photography without the use of flashes and additional equipment.
The cost of photography is 300 rubles.
Russian Museum includes a whole museum complex, thanks to which it became possible to contain almost half a million works of art! It consists of M Ikhailovsky Palace with the Benois building and the Rossi wing, but it also applies Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle, Marble and Stroganov Palaces, as well as cozy Mikhailovsky Garden, Palace of Peter I, with its unique garden and park alleys Summer Garden, and the House of Peter I on the opposite side of the Neva River. Here's a big list.
As you can easily guess from the name, in the museum you can see only Russian works of art. The General Assembly is considered the largest in the world, and at the time of writing more than 411 thousand exhibits, among which are works of painting, graphics, sculpture, numismatics, arts and crafts and folk art, as well as archival materials! But in order to see all this, you need to go around more than one building. And dedicate a lot of days to it. But, having looked at everything, you seem to plunge into a time machine and feel every period of the development of Russian art over the past 1000 years!
Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to walk through all the buildings of the Russian Museum. Therefore, today we will talk about the main exhibition, which is stored in Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing and Carlo Rossi Wing.
The main exposition is represented by the works of outstanding Russian artists, among them S.F. Shchedrin, I.I. Shishkin, F.A. Vasiliev, I.K. Aivazovsky, F.A. Bruni, A.K. Savrasov, V.I. Surikov, A.M. Vasnetsov, A.I. Kuindzhi, K.P. Bryullov, F.A. Bronnikov, K.F. Gun, N.N. Ge, V.G. Perov, K.E. Makovsky, V.V. Vereshchagin, and I also want to highlight the portraits I.N. Kramskoy, O.A. Kiprensky, I.E. Repin, V.L. Borovikovsky, D.G. Levitsky!
It was nice to look at surrealism N.S. Goncharova, A.V. Lentulova, K.S. Malevich, S.A. Luchishkin and P.N. Filonov.
Museum plan.
Once inside, you immediately find yourself in the palace! Wide stairs, huge columns and high ceilings! Very royal!
Having bought a ticket, I began to explore the museum. Climbing the stairs, she met me first sculpture of Alexander III, he was very carefully examined by one of the visitors to the museum.
And then the halls with an incredible number of paintings begin! As is customary in most such museums, the historical period is also well observed here. As I moved from each hall, I gradually moved from Old Russian to the Newest Art! Eyes, as always ran.
At first, there were several halls in front of me with icons. I don't understand them well, so I quickly passed by.
Next came the art galleries. Unfortunately, the disgusting lighting of the paintings immediately caught my eye. Of course there is, but I think in such an outstanding art museum, known to the whole world, there should be no such problems with lighting. It upset me a lot then.
Look, the light falls on the paintings both from the side of the chandelier and from the window.
For example, there are no such problems. In most world-famous museums, this is not the case either. And believe me, I've been to different museums. In the Russian Museum there is such a jamb, because of which, looking at the pictures, you had to focus your eyesight strongly, strain to see them, and it was possible to take pictures only with the critical parameters of the camera.
1754. B.V. Sukhodolsky - Painting.
1780. Unknown artist - The building of the twelve colleges.
1750. I.Ya. Vishnyakov - Portrait of Wilhelm Georg Fermor.
The decoration of the halls of the palace is striking in its beauty. Much attention is paid to painting.
1795. I.P. Chernov - Return of the Prodigal Son.
1762. A.P. Losenko - A wonderful catch of fish.
1776. D.G. Levitsky - Portrait of N.S. Borscheva.
1775. D.G. Levitsky - Portrait of A.P. Levshina.
Interior items White Column Hall Mikhailovsky Palace.
1860. Vase with porcelain medallions.
1799. VL Borovikovsky - Portrait of Prince A.B. Kurakin.
1796. VL Borovikovsky - Portrait of Murtaza Kuli Khan.
1798-1800. F.Ya.Alekseev - View of the city of Bakhchisaray.
1846. I.K. Aivazovsky - View of Constantinople in the moonlight.
1843. I.K. Aivazovsky - Seashore. Calm.
1850. I.K. Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave. This world-famous and most popular painting by the artist hangs in this museum!
1846. I.K. Aivazovsky - Russian squadron in the Sevastopol roadstead.
Closer parts of the painting.
1848. I.K. Aivazovsky - Brig "Mercury" after the victory over two Turkish ships meets with the Russian squadron.
1889. I.K. Aivazovsky - Wave.
Closer sections of the painting
1896. I.K. Aivazovsky - Ship at sea.
1885. I.K. Aivazovsky - Calm.
1884. I.K. Aivazovsky - Sea with a ship.
1885. I.K. Aivazovsky - Moonlit night. Sea shore.
1833. K.P. Bryullov - The Last Day of Pompeii.
Look at the scale! I am amazed at both the skill and the patience of the artists! It is incredibly difficult to be able to reproduce such beauty, and even on such an impressive canvas!
1830. K.P. Bryullov - Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna with her daughter Maria.
1839. K.P. Bryullov - Portrait of the Shishmarev sisters.
1821. K.P. Bryullov - Appearance of three angels to Abraham at the oak of Mamre.
There are a lot of people in the museum, but there is enough space for everyone!
The next room is no less interesting.
1828. P.V. Basin - Socrates defends Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidaea.
1812. A.I. Ivanov - Combat between Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich Udaly and Prince Rededey of Kosozh.
In each hall there are not only paintings, but also sculptures.
1813. Vasily Demut-Malinovsky - Russian Scaevola.
1841. F.A. Bruni - Copper Serpent.
1835. A.A. Ivanov - Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene after the resurrection.
1824. F.A. Bruni - Death of Camilla, Horace's sister.
1836-1855. A.A. Ivanov - Appearance of Christ to the people.
Inside the Russian Museum it is very beautiful, there is a great atmosphere, but because of the poor lighting everything looks a bit dark.
1816. S.F. Shchedrin - View from Petrovsky Island in St. Petersburg.
1823. S.F. Shchedrin - New Rome. Castle of the Holy Angel.
1826. S.F. Shchedrin - View of Amalfi near Naples.
S.F. Shchedrin - Fishermen near the shore.
1829. S.F. Shchedrin - Naples on a moonlit night Via Parthenope and Castello del Ovo.
1829. S.F. Shchedrin - View of Sorrento near Naples.
1836. M.I. Lebedev - Ariccia near Rome.
1845. A.Ya. Voloskov - View in Pavlovsk park.
1827. O.A. Kiprensky - Portrait of Count G.G. Kushelev.
1830. O.A. Kiprensky - Soothsayer with a candle.
1823. O.A. Kiprensky - Portrait of E.S. Avdulina.
1809. O.A. Kiprensky - Portrait of Evgraf V. Davydov.
1855. A.M. Volkov - Death of Ivan Susanin.
1875. A.T. Litovchenko - Ivan the Terrible shows treasures to Jerome Horsey.
1887. K.N. Gorsky - Peter I visits Mrs. Maintenon in 1717.
1865. V.G. Schwartz - Palm Sunday in Moscow under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
V.G. Schwartz - Entry of Shuisky and de La Gardie to Moscow (Sketch).
1880. I.N. Kramskoy - Portrait of the artist I.I. Shishkin.
1882. I.N. Kramskoy - Mina Moiseev.
1840. I.N. Kramskoy - Inconsolable grief.
1869. F.A. Vasiliev - Village.
1871. F.A. Vasiliev - Thaw.
1867. F.A. Vasiliev - In the church fence.
And this is my good friend Oleg.
You can understand the size of the paintings in this room. I have always wondered how such large canvases are monitored and how they are transported to other museums for temporary exhibitions? I would love to write a report about it. :)
1869. F.A. Bronnikov - Consecration of the Herm.
F. Bronnikov - Street of the Italian city.
1905. S.V. Bakalovich - Prayer to Khonsu.
1862. K.D. Flavitsky - Christian martyrs in the Colosseum.
1868. K.F. Gong - Eve of St. Bartholomew's Night.
1889. G.I. Semiradsky - Phryne at the festival of Poseidon in Eleusis.
1865-1876. V.G. Perov - Meal.
1869. V.G. Perov - Girl with a jug.
1879. V.G. Perov - Pugachev's Court.
1864. V.G. Perov - Parisian rag-pickers.
1880. V.G. Perov - The first Christians in Kyiv.
1860s F.S. Zhuravlev - Children-beggars.
1840s A.K. Savrasov - Birches. High water.
1870-1880. A.K. Savrasov - Winter.
1873. A.K. Savrasov - View of the Moscow Kremlin. Spring.
1871. A.K. Savrasov - Sunset over the swamp.
1869. L.L. Kamenev - View from the outskirts of the village Porechie.
1850. A.P. Popov (Moscow) - Moscow. Yauza coast.
1890. V.V. Vereshchagin - Shipka-Sheinovo (Skobelev near Shipka).
1873. V.V. Vereshchagin - At the door of the mosque.
1884. V.V. Vereshchagin - In Jerusalem. Royal tombs.
1884. N.N. Ge - Portrait of L.N. Tolstoy.
1863. N.N. Ge - The Last Supper.
1883. I.I. Shishkin - A stream in a birch forest.
1865. I.I. Shishkin - Oaks.
1871. M.K. Klodt - On arable land.
1865. I.I. Shishkin - Oaks.
1898. I.I. Shishkin - Ship Grove.
1870. K.E. Makovsky - Transfer of the sacred carpet in Cairo.
1881. K.E. Makovsky - In the park.
1882. K.E. Makovsky - Family portrait.
1888. K.A. Savitsky - To the war.
1888. V.D. Polenov - Christ and the Sinner.
1871. I.E. Repin - Resurrection of the daughter of Jairus.
1870-1873 I.E. Repin - Barge haulers on the Volga.
1876. I.E. Repin - Sadko.
1876. I.E. Repin - Negress.
1879. I.E. Repin - Seeing a recruit.
1905-1908. A.I. Kuindzhi - Night.
1880. A.I. Kuindzhi - Moonlit night on the Dnieper.
1898-1908. A.I. Kuindzhi - Sea. Crimea.
1900-1905. A.I. Kuindzhi - Oaks.
In one of the halls there was just an incredible painting by Ivan Repin. 1903. I.E. Repin - The ceremonial meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901 on the day of the centennial anniversary of its establishment.
1896. I.E. Repin - Portrait of Nicholas II.
1899. V.I. Surikov - Suvorov Crossing the Alps in 1799.
1895. V.I. Surikov - Conquest of Siberia by Ermak.
1906. V.I. Surikov - Stepan Razin.
1882. A.M. Vasnetsov - The Knight at the Crossroads.
1877. A.M. Vasnetsov - Acrobats (At a holiday near Paris).
1881. A.M. Vasnetsov - Battle of the Scythians with the Slavs.
1910. K.F. Bogaevsky - Classical landscape.
1912. K.F. Bogaevsky - Ships. Evening sun.
1908. L.S. Bakst - Ancient horror.
1896. A.P. Ryabushkin - A merchant's family in the 17th century.
1910. K.F. Yuon - Spring sunny day. Sergiev Posad.
The hall where Decorative and applied and Folk art.
The Russian Museum is huge! It is easy to get confused in the numerous corridors. In this case, along the way you can find such signs showing the floor plan of the museum.
1898. M.A. Vrubel - Bogatyr.
1902. V.A. Serov - Portrait of Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna Yusupova.
1912. A.Ya. Golovin - Portrait of F.I. Chaliapin as Boris Godunov.
1916. B.M. Kustodiev - Maslenitsa.
1917. A.V. Lentulov - Churches. New Jerusalem.
1911. N.S. Goncharova - Evangelists.
1908. N.S. Goncharova - Winter.
1914. K.S. Malevich - Composition with Mona Lisa ("Partial Eclipse").
1915. L.S. Popova - Portrait of a Philosopher.
1914. K.S. Malevich - Aviator.
1915. K.S. Malevich - Red Square (Picturesque realism of a Peasant woman in two dimensions).
1929. K.S. Malevich - Landscape with a white house.
1932. K.S. Malevich - Girls in the field.
Surreal labyrinths! Previously, I did not perceive such a direction in art. And now I really like it. :)
1920-1921. P.N. Filonov - The formula of the Petrograd proletariat.
1926. S.A. Luchishkin - Skiers.
1934. V.V. Kuptsov - ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky".
OK it's all over Now. Finally, I ran into the last hall before leaving and photographed just such a plate.
I again went out onto the front staircase of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Coming down from which, I was waiting gift shop. They sell books, plates, magnets, nesting dolls, calendars and even copies of paintings.
The post turned out to be very informative, perhaps even too complete. But this is only a small part of what he saw. In fact, as I said at the beginning, it is impossible to capture everything! But believe me, it was so difficult to select the photographs taken by me in the museum. Not all of them came out as high quality as to properly convey the atmosphere of the paintings, mainly due to poor lighting. Many paintings are behind glass, or hang very high. There were a lot of flashes. As a tip, it is better to come to such museums in the evening, when it is already getting dark outside. You will have at least one artificial light source. However, the museum is amazing! It is rightfully considered one of the best in the country!
Today, the Russian Museum can rightly be considered a unique repository of artistic treasures! This is a whole library of arts, having come to which, everyone has the opportunity to look at a stunning collection of masterpieces by outstanding artists, certainly belonging to the world cultural heritage. Therefore, I recommend everyone not to be lazy, come to St. Petersburg and go see everything with your own eyes!
Description
The State Russian Museum is one of the most visited museums in St. Petersburg, with a collection of more than 400,000 exhibits. In Russia, this is the largest museum presenting a collection of national fine arts.The history of the creation of the museum dates back to the 19th century. The building of the Mikhailovsky Palace, in which the Russian Museum was subsequently founded, was built according to the project of the architect Carl Rossi in 1819-1825, the architectural appearance of which is recognized as an outstanding example of a palace ensemble in the style of high classicism. The first owner of the palace was Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the fourth son of Emperor Paul I.
In 19th-century Europe, public museums of fine art already exist, and the idea of opening a state museum of national art is being discussed among the educated elite of Russian society.
In 1889, Emperor Alexander III acquired I. Repin’s painting “Nicholas of Mirlikisky Saves Three Innocently Convicted from Death” - this event is associated with the sovereign’s idea, which he expressed about the foundation of a nationwide national museum.
The plan of Alexander III was carried out by his successor Emperor Nicholas II, in 1895 the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III was established. In the same year, the reconstruction of the halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace for the museum expositions began, under the guidance of architect V.F. Svinin.
The grand opening of the "Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III" took place on March 7 (19), 1898.
The museum's collection was made up of works of art donated from the Hermitage, the Academy of Arts, the Gatchina and Tsarskoye Selo Alexander Palaces, as well as donated collections of private collectors.
According to the plan, the exposition of the museum was to be represented by three departments:
- a memorial department dedicated to the memory of Emperor Alexander III;
- ethnographic and art-industrial department;
- art department.
The construction of the premises of the Memorial Department was delayed and it was never opened.
The collection of the ethnographic department was exhibited in the Russian Museum, but in 1934 it was transferred to the newly opened State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR.
The collection of the art department was actively replenished and developed, as a result, the Russian Museum became the largest collection of national fine art.
By 1914, the halls of the Mekhailovsky Palace no longer contained the entire collection of the Russian Museum, and in 1914-1919 a new exhibition building was erected according to the project of architects L. Benois and S. Ovsyannikov, named after the author's name - the Benois building.
In the halls of the State Russian Museum, national art is widely represented, from ancient Rus' to our time.
Old Russian icons from the collection of the Russian Museum, the exposition of which began to form even at the foundation of the museum and was replenished during the 20th century, are not only monuments of ancient Russian art, but masterpieces of world significance.
When forming a collection of easel paintings, the best works of artists of the 18th-19th centuries served as the basis. These are portrait paintings by I. Vishnyakov, D. Levitsky, V. Borovikovsky, paintings of antique themes by F. Bruni, G. Ugryumov, the world-famous masterpiece by K. Bryullov “The Last Day of Pompeii” and his other great canvases, paintings by the unsurpassed marine painter I Aivazovsky and his famous "Ninth Wave". A special place in the collection of the Russian Museum is occupied by the paintings of the artists of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries - A. Ivanov, V. Vasnetsov, K. Makovsky, I. Repin, K. Savitsky, V. Polenov, V. Vereshchagin, V. Surikov, M. Vrubel . Outstanding Russian landscape painters are widely represented in the museum - the well-known I. Shishkin, I. Levitan, A. Kuindzhi. Of particular interest are the works of artists of the "World of Art" association, who worked not only in the direction of easel art, but also in theatrical art, creating scenery and theatrical costumes.
In the post-revolutionary period, the collection of the Russian Museum is replenished by nationalized private collections and works created by artists of the "new trends".
On the ground floor of the Benois building, a large collection of works of the Soviet period is exhibited and thematic exhibitions are held.
Nowadays, the museum collection is constantly replenished not only through government purchases, but also through donations of private collections to the museum.
Today, the State Russian Museum is a museum complex and includes the Mikhailovsky, Marble and Stroganov palaces, the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) castle, the House of Peter I, garden and park ensembles - the Summer Garden with the Summer Palace of Peter I and the Mikhailovsky Garden.
