St Petersburg. Portrait Of The City And Its Citizens. From the Collection of the Russian Museum

18 may 2003—10 november 2003

On exhibit, there are about 500 works of art from the collection of the Russian Museum that give an artistic depiction of St Petersburg. Among them are views of embankments of rivers and canals, axquisite palaces and parks, portrait galleries of famous people inseparable from the history of the city, and memorable historical events. Saint Petersburg is one of the few cities in Russia that was so often and differently depicted during its 300-year history. The 18th century engravings executed by Alexei Zubov and Mikhail Machaev, views by Maxim Vorobjev and Vasily Sadovnikov reflecting architectural ensembles of Petersburg in the 19th century, and the retrospective city views created by the "World of Arts" masters at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, depict Petersburg during revolution time and also give a contemporary representation. A catalogue for the exhibition has been published.

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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

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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27 april—19 june 2023 > Marble Palace Alexey Vaulin. Living Substance
13 april—3 july 2023 > St Michael’s Castle Leonid Sherwood (1871–1954)

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