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POWER OF WATER

14 august 2008—11 november 2008
Paintings, graphic works, sculpture and installations with representation of water that is one of the most popular motifs in the Russian art since the XVIII century till now are presented on the "Power of Water" exhibition.

The exhibition consists of two parts. The first part demonstrates the traditional art from the XVIII century to the 1st half of the XX century. The artworks by the most prominent Russian artists such as Ivan Aivazovsky, Fyodor Vasilyev, Alexei Savrasov, Ilya Repin, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Konstantin Korovin, Vasily Surikov, Isaac Levitan, Aleksandr Benois, Mikhail Nesterov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Aleksandr Deyneka, Arkady Plastov are shown.

The artworks by contemporary artists from Saint-Petersburg, Siberia and Nizhny Novgorod are presented in the second part of the exhibition. The viewers have the opportunity for getting acquainted with names of young artists, the artworks by which are not housed in the Russian Museum.

The exhibition is supplemented with the original sound and video accompanying.

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Inspired by the Classics: Neoclassicism in Russia

Inspired by the Classics: Neoclassicism in Russia

15 june—11 september 2023

This exhibition is dedicated to Russian Neoclassicism, an early 20th-century art trend that, alongside avant-garde, was influential in shaping Russian architecture, theatre, music, fashion and everyday life, as well as the figurative arts.

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.

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