PAINTING, STYLE, FASHION
The exhibition contains over 600 exhibits (over 300 paintings and graphic works, about 200 items of decorative and applied arts) and represents the period of time from the epoch of Peter I to nowadays. Portraits and genre-paintings, dresses and suits, full-dress uniforms and wigs, furniture and household goods, stained-glass windows and arms, studies for hats and fabrics, posters and signboards are shown at the exhibition. The idea of the Painting, Style, and Fashion exhibition is to show an interaction between fashion and fine arts of different epochs.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Peterhof reserve museum, State Museum of History of Saint-Petersburg, A.V. Suvorov State Memorial Museum, Military and Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps. For the first time the Russian Museum represents the artworks from private collections of N. Kostrigina, P. Novbari, M. Suslov, V. Sarapas and the others.
Designer Tatyana Parfyonova made the Fashion-2009 installation of 12 figures specially for the exhibition.
A. A. Mylnikov (1919-2012): 100th Anniversary of Birth
21 february—15 april 2019
A small memorial exhibition, commemorating the centennial of the birth of prominent Russian artist Andrei Mylnikov, is held in the hall 83 of the permanent exhibition of the Benois Wing.
The Autumn of Russia’s Middle Ages
21 february—13 may 2019
The exhibition dedicated to the sacred art of the 17th century presents books, objects of jewelry, embroidery, icon painting, monumental painting from the collection of the Russian Museum, giving a comprehensive account of the ways and features of the development of art of this time.
- 13 february—20 may 2019 > St Michael’s Castle Nicholas I
- 7 february—18 march 2019 > St Michael’s Castle Woodcuts from the Russian Museum Collection
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
In the online shop of the Russian Museum presented a huge range of souvenirs, illustrated editions and multimedia disks.
