The exhibition presents the oeuvre of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and works by his contemporaries, pupils and associates. Being a teacher of painting, he also inspired his...
The State Russian Museum
Branches:
Benois Wing
St Michael’s Castle
Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Artist and Art Collector
The exhibition forms part of the project dedicated to the private art collections that arrived to the Russian museum in various periods and constitute it...
Marble Palace
Apartment no. 5. To the History of the Petrograd Avant-Garde. 1915-1925
The exhibition familiarizes the public with a significant episode in the history of the Russian avant-garde and artistic life o...
Benois Wing
The oeuvre of Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), world-renown Russian artist will be for the first time presented with special emphasis made on the national origins...
- 9 september 2016 > Marble Palace Opening of the exhibition "Apartment no. 5. To the History of the Petrograd Avant-Garde. 1915-1925"
- 8 september 2016 > Stroganov Palace Musical Thursdays in the Stroganov Palace
- 1 september 2016 > Marble Palace Lecture "German Video Art in the Russian Museum: Akiko Hada"
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 about 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 started 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
22 september—4 december 2016
The oeuvre of Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), world-renown Russian artist will be for the first time presented with special emphasis made on the national origins of his early figurative works and abstract paintings of 1910-s. The exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the artist will comprise graphic and painterly works.
Also in the Benois Wing:
- 2 june—20 october 2016 Petrov-Vodkin's Circle
- Permanent exhibition Art of the End of XIXth – Begining of XXth Century
- Permanent exhibition Decorative and Applied Arts in Russia. ХХ century
- Permanent exhibition Art of the XXth Century
Stroganov Palace
Reflection. Watercolors and drawings of Andrey Esionov
14 september—7 november 2016
Russian Museum invites to the personal exhibition of painter and graphic artist Andrey Esionov. That is his first exhibition in St Petersburg, but there already were several exhibitions in Europe and in Moscow – at the Academy of Arts and Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
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
Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Artist and Art Collector
25 august—7 november 2016
The exhibition forms part of the project dedicated to the private art collections that arrived to the Russian museum in various periods and constitute its treasury.
In 1916 the museum acquired the first nine works by Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, whose oeuvre reflects the revival and flourishing of etching in the early XX century Russian art.
Also in the St Michael’s Castle:
- 11 august—1 november 2016 Sylvester Schedrin and School of Posillipo. To the 225th Anniversary of the Artist
- Permanent exhibition St.Petersburg Society During the Romanov Era
- Permanent exhibition Faces of Russia. Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum
- Permanent exhibition Sculpture Open Fund
Marble Palace
Apartment no. 5. To the History of the Petrograd Avant-Garde. 1915-1925
8 september—7 november 2016
The exhibition familiarizes the public with a significant episode in the history of the Russian avant-garde and artistic life of Petrograd during World War I and first post-revolutionary years. Apartment no. 5 (17, University Embarkment) was a real address of the former Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Petrograd, where there was a service residence of S.K. Isakov, a stepfather of the brothers Nikolai and Lev Bruni.
Also in the Marble Palace:
- 31 august—30 september 2016 German Video Art in the Russian Museum
- 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
1 december 2015—31 january 2018
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
In 1994 famous German art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig gifted to the museum their collection of art of the second half of the X...
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 about six thousand icons. The p...
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