Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
The exhibition including over 500 objects offers a perspective on how Russian internal and geopolitical transformations, in which Empress Catherine II playe...
The State Russian Museum
Branches:
St Michael’s Castle
Stroganov Palace
Contemporary still life in photography demonstrates a variety of trends and approaches: from homages to classic pompous arrangements à la golden age of still life to the m...
Marble Palace
This large-scale exhibition of Sean Scully’s work allows Russian viewers to get acquainted for the first time with the development of the artist’s work from the late 1960s ...
St Michael’s Castle
The exhibition investigates the ways sculptors tackle book as a cultural phenomenon. The viewers will see not only traditional sculpture, but also installations and objects. The exh...
St Michael’s Castle
Vladimir Lyubarov. The Land of Peremilovo. Oil Paintings of Russian Origin
In Lyubarov’s work, subtle psychologism and attention to detail are artfully combined with the ingenuous expressiveness of n...
Benois Wing
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
The exhibition includes around 350 ceramic works devoted to the topics of sport and healthy lifestyle and made in the Soviet Union/Russia betwee...
Marble Palace
The exhibition of over 220 works by two prominent German artists accompanied by an exten...
- 12 april 2018 > The State Russian Museum the Halls №№ 226, 232 of St Michael's Castle will be closed.
- 5 april 2018 > Stroganov Palace Jazz evening in the Stroganov Palace
- 22 march 2018 > Stroganov Palace American jazz singer David Post and Kirill Bubyakin Quartet in the Stroganov Palace
Exhibitions
Mikhailovsky Palace
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Permanent exhibition
Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The permanent exhibition housed in the first four halls of Mikhailovsky Palace represents a part of this collection, the most valuable works of XII-XVII centuries created in the major art centers of Old Russia: Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Moscow, and Yaroslavl.
Also in the Mikhailovsky Palace:
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the XVIII Century
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century
- Permanent exhibition Folk Art of the XVII-XXI Centuries
Benois Wing
Permanent exhibition
The collection of the museum comprises works of the representatives of large schools that existed in Soviet times (e.g., Leningrad school of landscape painting of the 1930s - 1950s). The art of socialist realism, showing high artistic merit, clarity of plot, a tendency for "grand style", is reflected in the paintings by A.A. Deyneka, 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 XX century.
Also in the Benois Wing:
- Permanent exhibition Decorative and Applied Arts in Russia. ХХ century
- Permanent exhibition Art of the End of XIXth – Begining of XXth Century
Stroganov Palace
1 march—14 may 2018
Contemporary still life in photography demonstrates a variety of trends and approaches: from homages to classic pompous arrangements à la golden age of still life to the minimalistic elegance of constructivism.
Also in the Stroganov Palace:
- Permanent exhibition Mineral Study
- Permanent exhibition Russian Empire Style. Applied Art of the Epoch of Alexander I (1801–1825)
St Michael’s Castle
Vladimir Lyubarov. The Land of Peremilovo. Oil Paintings of Russian Origin
18 april—18 june 2018
In Lyubarov’s work, subtle psychologism and attention to detail are artfully combined with the ingenuous expressiveness of naïve art and high professionalism of a skillful painter.
Also in the St Michael’s Castle:
- 12 april—18 june 2018 Sculptor's Book
- 15 february—28 may 2018 Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
- Permanent exhibition St.Petersburg Society During the Romanov Era
- Permanent exhibition Faces of Russia. Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum
Marble Palace
Inside the Marble Palace (Sound, Dance, Performance)
18 april—14 may 2018
Cloudscape
Lorna Simpson
2004
Also in the Marble Palace:
- 3 march—9 may 2018 Sean Scully. Facing East
- Permanent exhibition Poet of the Silver age - Konstantin Romanov
- Permanent exhibition The Rzhevsky Brothers Collection
- Permanent exhibition The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum
Cabin of Peter the Great
Modern exhibition of Cabin of Peter the Great
Permanent exhibition
Modern exhibition of the museum comprises items dating back to Peter I’s time, including memorial paraphernalia, such as: red broadcloth uniform, an oriental cane, a model of Peter I’s hand based on an imprint made at Lipetsk foundry in 1707, a wherry, and Peter’s armchair.
Marble Palace
The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum
The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum is temporarily closed for visitors.
Mikhailovsky Palace
Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century
Even when it first opened back in 1898, the Russian Museum owned many canvases painted by such masters of the second half of the nineteenth century a...
Mikhailovsky Palace
Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century
The exhibition shows masterpieces representing the variety of trends in the Russian art of the time (classicism, romantism and beginning i...
Mikhailovsky Palace
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The ...
Events
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12.04.2018
The State Russian Museum
the Halls №№ 226, 232 of St Michael's Castle will be closed.
- 05.04.2018
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22.03.2018
American jazz singer David Post and Kirill Bubyakin Quartet in the Stroganov Palace
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19.03.2018
The State Russian Museum
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08.03.2018
Concert to the International Women's Day in the Stroganov Palace
Lecture hall
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25 april, wednesday. 18:00
ИКОНОГРАФИЯ СОФИИ ПРЕМУДРОСТИ БОЖИЕЙ. ПИР ПРЕМУДРОСТИ.
Lecture Series: ОСНОВЫ ИКОНОГРАФИИ И ДРЕВНЕРУССКОЙ ИКОНОПИСИ.
Lecturer: кандидат искусствоведения, сотрудник РМ П.В.Западалова
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26 april, thursday. 19:00
ЖИВОПИСЬ РУБЕЖА XIX-ХХ ВЕКОВ (В. А. СЕРОВ, М. А. ВРУБЕЛЬ И ДР.).
Lecture Series: ЦИКЛ II. РУССКАЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА XVIII–XX ВЕКОВ.
Lecturer: искусствовед, сотрудник РМ С.К.Погадаева
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To purchase classes for individual groups of students, given according to special programs by a lecturer who will come to the school or another institute, please call: +7 (812) 570-52-23, +7 (812) 570-56-91.
All lectures are given in Russian.
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