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 establishment: 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 creation: 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 establishment: 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 establishment: 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 establishment: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 establishment: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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 creation: 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
Since 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 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.
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The Russian Museum is the first museum of Russian fine art in Russia, and today it is the largest in the world. It was opened in 1898 by Emperor Nicholas II in memory of his father Alexander III.
The first exhibits were transferred to the Russian Museum by the Hermitage, the Academy of Arts, the Gatchina and Tsarskoye Selo Alexander Palaces, many were donated by private individuals, and some were purchased at the expense of appropriations from the state treasury. Prince Alexander Lobanov-Rostovsky donated to the museum his personal collection of portraiture, Princess Maria Tenisheva - a rich collection of graphics. During the first decade of the museum's existence, the number of exhibits doubled. These were icons, drawings, engravings, sculptures and objects of arts and crafts. Over time, the collection was replenished with Soviet painting.
At present, the museum's collection includes more than 320,000 exhibits representing Russian art from the 11th century. to the present day. The museum complex consists of seven buildings: the Mikhailovsky Palace, the Benois Wing, the Stroganov and Marble Palaces, the Mikhailovsky Castle, the Summer Palace of Peter I and the house of Peter I.
Painting of the second half of the 19th century - the beginning of the 21st century
Among the paintings transferred to the Russian Museum at the time of its foundation, a noticeable and artistically significant part were the works of the leading masters of the second half of the 19th century. (I.K. Aivazovsky, V.M. Vasnetsov, K.E. Makovsky, I.E. Repin, V.D. Polenov, V.I. Surikov). Despite the fact that the selection of paintings for the museum in the first two decades of its existence was somewhat limited by the conservative tastes of the Council of the Academy of Arts, the range of paintings represented in the collection of paintings has constantly expanded. This is a great merit of the museum staff, such as Albert Benois and Alexander Benois, I.E. Grabar, P.I. Neradovsky and others. Important steps were taken to complete the collection of paintings by contemporary artists. Individual canvases and whole groups of works came from the exhibitions of I.I. Levitan (in 1901 - posthumous), V.V. Vereshchagin (in 1905 - posthumous), Ya.F. Zionglinsky (in 1914 - posthumous) , Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (S.Yu. Zhukovsky, N.A. Kasatkin, I.I. Levitan, V.E. Makovsky), the New Society of Artists (B.M. Kustodiev, N.M. Fokina), from the authors (A.Ya. Golovin, V.A. Serov, M.V. Nesterov), from random owners (“Meal” by V.G. Perov, “Portrait of O.K. Orlova” by V.A. Serov, etc.) .
Sketches by M.A. Vrubel and paintings by K.A. Somov from the extensive collection of V.N. Soon the collection of N.I. and E.M. Tereshchenko, which consisted mainly of works by artists of the late XIX - early XX century. (including the “Bogatyr” and “Six-winged Seraphim” by M.A. Vrubel), the collection of A.A. Korovin, where there were canvases by V.A. Serov, F.A. Malyavin, M.V. Nesterov, K. A. Korovin, as well as representatives of the art associations "World of Art", "Blue Rose" and "Jack of Diamonds".
Replenishment of the collection of paintings of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. continued into the 1930s. At that time, among other works, the “Grand Meeting of the State Council” by I.E. Repin was transferred from the Museum of the Revolution. From the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum received canvases by masters who are poorly represented in the collection of the latter (“Guitarist-bobyl” and “Portrait of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev” by V.G. Perov, “Self-portrait” by N.V. Nevrev, “Cursist” N.A. .Yaroshenko, “The Flying Demon” by M.A. Vrubel and “Women” by F.A. Malyavin).
Over the past twenty years, the museum has received about two hundred paintings of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Most of these works were donated in 1998 by the brothers I.A. and Ya.A. Rzhevsky. An extensive collection of paintings by Russian artists, including paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky, I.I. Shishkin, N.N. Dubovsky, B.N. Kustodiev, K.Ya. palace. It is also necessary to note several sketches and paintings by Russian artists of the late XIX - XX centuries. (S.Yu. Zhukovsky, E.I. Stolitsa, A.B. Lakhovsky and others), donated in 2009 from N.P. Ivashkevich. A notable acquisition of recent years has been the painting by I.E. Repin “Portrait of a Military Man”, previously owned by one of the North American companies.
In 1926, in addition to the Art Department of the Russian Museum, the Department of Contemporary Art was created. Its funds began to be purposefully replenished with works of avant-garde art movements and creative associations of the first quarter of the 20th century, including works by N.S. Goncharova, V.V. Kandinsky, P.P. Konchalovsky, P.V. Kuznetsov, M.F. Larionov, A.V. Lentulov, K.S. Malevich, L.S. Popova, V.E. Tatlin, R.R. Falk, P.N. Filonov, M.Z. Shagal and many others.
By 1927, the exposition of the Russian Museum consistently presented numerous new trends from post-impressionism to non-objectivity. The department of the latest trends lasted only three years, but it essentially laid the foundation for the Department of Soviet Painting of the State Russian Museum (1932-1991), which at the moment (as part of the Department of Painting of the 2nd half of the 19th-21st centuries) has constantly replenished funds . These funds, exceeding 6,000 items, cover almost all areas, schools, trends, main types and genres of development of Russian art of the 20th - early 21st centuries.
The Russian Museum has one of the largest collections of works by the early Russian avant-garde and its leading masters. The pictorial collection presents the main innovative trends of the mid-1910s: abstractionism (V.V. Kandinsky) and its purely Russian branch - Rayonism (M.F. Larionov, N.S. Goncharova), neo-primitivism (M.F. Larionov , N.S. Goncharova, A.V. Shevchenko, K.S. Malevich), cubofuturism (D.D. Burlyuk, K.S. Malevich, I.A. Puni, L.S. Popova, N.A. Udaltsova, A.A. Exter and others), Suprematism (K.S. Malevich, I.A. Puni, O.V. Rozanova, I.V. Klyun), constructivism (V.E. Tatlin, A.M. .Rodchenko, A.A. Exter, L.V. Popova), analytical art (P.N. Filonov). The collections of works by masters who created innovative artistic systems (K.S. Malevich, P.N. Filonov, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin), as well as individual major painters, including those whose creative path has already begun in Soviet times (S.V. Gerasimov, P.P. Konchalovsky, P.V. Kuznetsov, B.M. Kustodiev, V.V. Lebedev, A.A. Rylov, A.V. Shevchenko, N.M. Romadin). Also, the museum's collection includes works by artists - representatives of significant schools that existed in the Soviet era (for example, the Leningrad school of landscape painting of the 1930s - 1950s).
The art of socialist realism, demonstrating high artistic merit, plot clarity, programmatic inclination towards the “grand style”, is reflected in the paintings of A.A. Deineka, A.N. Samokhvalov, A.A. Plastov, Yu.I. Pimenov and many other Soviet artists who continued to work during the Great Patriotic War, and in the second half of the twentieth century. The golden fund of Soviet art also included works by representatives of the “severe style” and the directions of the search for Soviet painting of the 1960s-1970s that were in the collection of the Russian Museum. The museum collection contains works by such masters of post-war art as N.I. Andronov, V.V. Vatenin, D.D. Zhilinsky, V.I. Ivanov, G.M. Korzhev, E.E. Moiseenko, P.F .Nikonov, P.P.Ossovsky, V.E.Popkov, V.M.Sidorov, V.F.Stozharov, brothers A.P. and S.P. Tkachevy, B.S. Ugarov, P.T. Fomin and others, created in a wide genre range - from historical painting to still life.
which took place in the 1970s and 1980s. the actualization of previously rejected artistic experience gave rise in the depths of official art to a galaxy of masters who worked in line with the “picture of ideas” associated with a metaphorical, multifaceted understanding of the world and human life (O.V. Bulgakova, T.G. Nazarenko, N.I. Nesterova , I.V. Pravdin, A.A. Sundukov and others). During the period of "perestroika" (1985-1991), the collection of the Russian Museum was replenished with a number of names of artists who worked within the framework of the underground. Today, the collection of contemporary art is a very mobile and rapidly growing part of the funds of the 20th - early 21st centuries, but the comprehensive formation of the entire pictorial collection continues.
Yaroshenko N.A. Portrait of the artist Nikolai Ge.
1890. Oil on canvas.
Roerich N.K. Overseas guests.
1902. Oil on cardboard.
The restrained and elegant building of the Mikhailovsky Palace, created by Rossi's inexhaustible fantasy, did not immediately become a museum. Initially, the palace was intended to become the residence of the youngest son of Paul I, for which four hundred thousand rubles were “set aside” from the treasury every year. By the age of the prince, a decent amount had accumulated, which made it possible to build a luxurious residence with a vast garden.
Everyone is mortal, even the royal children. The palace passed into the hands of the heirs, then the children of the heirs, then the grandchildren ... The grandchildren were all German citizens, which could not please Emperor Alexander III, who was distinguished by strong patriotic feelings. The palace was bought by the treasury.
The same Alexander III was the first to voice the idea of creating a museum that would collect the best examples of Russian art over a thousand years. The idea of a Russian museum has been in the public eye since the middle of the 19th century, so the aspirations of the monarch and the people coincided, and in 1898 The Russian Museum was opened to the public.
The modern State Russian Museum offers visitors collections of Russian painting and sculpture from the 12th to the 20th century. The entire exposition is located on two floors of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the Benois building, built specifically for the needs of the new museum. In addition to the main building, the Russian Museum invites visitors to the Stroganov, Marble and Engineering Palaces. But the museum keeps its main treasures in the former residence of Tsarevich Mikhail Pavlovich.
On the first floor of the museum are located:
Expositions of Russian folk art (17th-21st centuries), a large collection of paintings and sculptures of the 19th century. Wood carving, ceramics, weaving, art painting are presented. From the brightness and diversity of the collection, the head is spinning;
- an extensive and rich collection of paintings and sculptures by Russian masters of the 19th century.
The second floor of the museum invites you to see:
Continuation of the exhibition of masterpieces of the 19th century;
- a collection of Russian art of the 18th century.
The two-story Benois building mainly hosts temporary exhibitions of the museum, as well as rooms where works by contemporary and sculptors are placed.
The museum has a magnificent collection of ancient icons, among which there are works by Rublev, Ushakov and Dionisy.
It is difficult to name at least one famous Russian artist whose work would not be represented in the Russian Museum. 15 thousand exhibits of the museum's painting collection include all the best that has been created by Russian masters over 800 years.
The museum is located near Nevsky Prospekt, which makes it an indispensable object for visiting many tourists. The Petersburgers themselves, by the way, like to visit the Russian museum more, preferring it to the magnificent and huge one.
The museum has a lecture hall, the program of which is varied and interesting.
Temporary exhibitions of the museum have long earned the reputation of being the most visited in the city on the Neva. Most often, this is a collection of masterpieces from the museum's storerooms, united by a common theme or time of creation. Frequent guests of the museum are the best works stored in others, as well as in private collections.
A visit to the Russian Museum is not cheap: 350 rubles (for residents of Russia and Belarus - 250 rubles).
You can purchase a ticket that gives you the right to visit all branches of the Russian Museum, which is valid for three days. Such a ticket will cost 600 and 400 rubles, respectively. A combined ticket allows you to save some money.
The Russian Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm. On Thursday, the exposition can be viewed from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is only one day off - Tuesday.
A landmark for those who are unfamiliar with St. Petersburg is the Nevsky Prospekt metro station.
The oldest icon in the museum's collection. It was probably written in the 12th century. Its author is unknown, it is believed that they wrote it in Novgorod. It got its name from the fact that each hair in the image was saturated with gold leaf. She appeared in the Russian Museum in 1934, before that she wandered from the Rumyantsev Museum to the Historical Museum, from there to the Tretyakov Gallery.
The most famous painting by the artist Karl Bryullov, from whom, as it is believed, our national school of painting began. Excavations in Pompeii began just at the time when Bryullov was studying in Italy. So he drew many sketches from nature.
As Baratynsky later wrote, "the last day of Pompeii became the first day for the Russian brush." A huge epic canvas, written by Bryullov in three years, became a symbol of the emerging Russian school of painting. In the country, the artist was literally carried in his arms. And Nicholas I hung the painting itself at the Academy of Arts, so that novice painters know what to focus on.
Ivan Aivazovsky painted hundreds of pictures of the sea, this one is the most famous. The majestic sea element, the storm, the sea, and against the background of all this - helpless victims of a shipwreck, trying to escape on a ship's mast.
Aivazovsky’s talent is still famous all over the world, his paintings will appear at international auctions, and the famous English marine painter Turner, who admired our artist, wrote a laudatory poem in his honor.
One of the most famous paintings by the artist Vasnetsov (along with "Alyonushka" or "Ivan Tsarevich"). The artist painted his knight several times. At first, the entire inscription was visible - he removed it. At first, the knight stood facing the viewer - he turned him around, it turned out more monumental. In addition, there was a road in the picture - Vasnetsov removed it too, for greater hopelessness.
To this day, "Vityaz" is considered one of the best Russian paintings on fairy tales and the canonical image of our painting of the second half of the 19th century, along with the canvases of Repin and Surikov.
“That's how the Cossacks answered you, shabby. You will not even feed the pigs of the Christians. We end with this, because we don’t know the date and we don’t have a calendar, a month in the sky, a year in a book, and our day is the same as yours, for this a kiss in **** us! - this was, according to legend, the end of the letter of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan. Its text has come down to us in the form of lists (written copies) and is believed to have been written in the 17th century, when once again the Turkish sultan demanded that the Cossacks stop attacking the Brilliant Port and surrender.
A copy was found by the Yekaterinoslav historian Novitsky, who gave it to his colleague Yavornitsky, who, in turn, read it to his friends, among whom was the artist Ilya Repin. He became so interested in the plot that he soon decided to paint a picture based on it. Yavornitsky himself posed for Repin as a model for the clerk. Ataman Sirko, the artist wrote from the Kyiv Governor-General Dragomirov. And a fat, laughing Cossack in a red caftan and a white hat is the writer Gilyarovsky.
The picture was later recognized as historically unreliable (and there were many complaints about the letter itself), but in the end its success at exhibitions (including abroad) was so huge that the painting was eventually bought by Emperor Alexander III himself for placement in the Russian Museum.
The main monumental historical canvas of the Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Surikov, for the sake of which he traveled to Switzerland. The artist wrote off the commander himself either from a teacher at a local gymnasium, or from a retired Cossack officer.
The result was a state order by chance: the artist painted a picture for the 100th anniversary of Suvorov's Alpine campaign in 1899, as a result, Emperor Nicholas II liked it so much that he bought it for the Russian Museum.
One of the key paintings in the work of the artist Vereshchagin, one of the few exhibited in the Russian Museum (most of the collection is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery). The artist - as always, with photographic accuracy unimaginable at that time - created a real story worthy of the best photojournalists of our time. Luxurious doors of the Central Asian mosque, and in front of them - the poor, for whom this rich world is closed forever.
This, by the way, is one of the few non-military paintings by Vereshchagin: he became famous primarily as a battle painter, with reporter composure revealing the horrors of war: both in Central Asia and in the Balkans. Vereshchagin also died in the war: on the battleship Petropavlovsk in Port Arthur.
An amazing stylization of an ancient plot by an artist of the Art Nouveau era. Valentin Serov, inspired by excavations on the island of Crete (where, according to legend, Zeus in the form of a bull took Europe away), painted not just a picture, but a large decorative panel.
The Russian Museum holds one of the six copies of the painting. A large version is in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
One of the most powerful paintings dedicated to the Civil War. In Petrov-Vodkin, death is devoid of any pathos, any pathos. The dying commissar and the soldier holding him have no expression of pain and anger on their faces: only fatigue, indifference, lack of will to move further, while the rest of the fighters run forward into battle to the sound of drums.
Alexander Deineka painted this picture back in 1942, literally immediately after the fall of Sevastopol. He was shown pictures of the destroyed city, and Deineka decided to create a large heroic canvas about those who defended Sevastopol. It turned out to be a little pretentious, but emotionally very strong picture about the courage and hopelessness of the position of those who decided not to give up at all costs.
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