The State Russian Museum / The Benois Wing 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.
The Art of Novgorod the Great in the Time of Prelate Macarius
27 april—14 august 2017
The XVIth century in Novgorod’s art history is a time of true rise but it still has never been an object of a special exhibition project and shown as a whole artistic phenomenon.
Vasily Vereshchagin. To the 175th Anniversary of the Artist
20 april—24 july 2017
The exhibition is dedicated to the 175-th anniversary of Vasily Vereshchagin, world-known Russian artist famous mainly for his battle pieces.
- 16 august—13 november 2017 > St Michael’s Castle Arkady Rylov. 1870-1939
- 10 august 2017—4 february 2018 > Russian Museum Posters and Photos of the Revolutionary Era
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.
