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V. V. Vereshchagin. The Trip in Boat. 1903. Oil on canvas. 70x103,5
7 october 2009—15 february 2010

About 300 paintings, sculpture and graphic works are presented at the exhibition from the collection of the Russian museum and private collections. The exposition is arranged in a geographical principle: every hall is dedicated to one or two countries. The Russian painters depicted the episodes of their every day life, sketched the morals and manners, landscapes during the trips.

The genre of the art trips received a large development in the creative oeuvre of the Russian artists at the end of the XVIII century, when the Academy of Arts started to send its pupils on creative academic missions. At the exposition there are presented the works by such Russian artists of the XVIII – XXI centuries as: Simeon Chedrin, Fedor Matveev, Ivan Ayvasovsky, Karl and Alexander Brullovs, Orest Kiprensky, Silvestr Chedrin, Alexander Ivanov, Piotr Basin, Maxim Vorobyev, brothers Chernetsov, Natan Altman , Alexandr Dejneka, Piotr Konachalovsky, Konstantin Korovin, Alexandra Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and others.

V. I. Shukhaev. Pending the Pasha. 1961. Tempera on canvas. 74x94 K. E. Makovskiy. Old Man in Turban. Sketch. 1870’s. Paper, oil on canvas. 28x23.5 N. E. Makovskiy. The Street in Kair. 1874. Water-colors on paper. 51.9 x 34.8 A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva. Belgium. Brugge. 1913. Paper on cardboard, water-colors, coal. 36.5x50.7 A. P. Bogolubov. The Palace of Doges and Santa Maria de la Salute church. Venice. 1854. Paper, sepia, brush, nib. 38,4x59,2 M. P. Bobyshov. Café. Paris. 1926. Paper, gouache, nib. 49,3x44,4 B. I. Anisfeld. Venice. Rialto Bridge. 1914. Oil on canvas. 60x73

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Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life

Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life

16 december 2022—20 june 2023

The Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace can be seen as a diptych comprised of two exhibitions: Images of Military Life in Russian Art of the 16th to 20th Centuries and Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life. They explore two existential aspects of human life perceived as polar opposites. The first half of the diptych features scenes of everyday life during wartime, while the other focuses on the theme of the home and family as guardian of the moral values of the Russian people.

Images of Military Life in Russian Art from the 16th to the 20th Centuries

Images of Military Life in Russian Art from the 16th to the 20th Centuries

20 october 2022—9 may 2023

Images of Military Life is an extensive exhibition featuring icons, paintings, sculptures, and applied and decorative artworks from the 16th through 20th centuries, most of them extracted from the museum’s repositories. It continues the Russian Museum’s time-honoured tradition of offering the public, from time to time, a broader perspective on its treasures and the magnitude of its collections.

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