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The People's War is On. 1941-1945

Supported by:
  • Sistema Charitable Foundation
Alexander Deineka. A Defense of Sevastopol. 1942. Oil on canvas. 200х400.
23 april 2015—6 july 2015
The main purpose of the exhibition devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is to show the facts of war through the eyes of its witnesses and participants in painting, graphic works and sculpture that had been created during those years. The exhibition shows the works of such artists as G. Vereisky, A. Deineka, P. Konchalovsky, P. Kotov, Kukryniksyi, V. Lishev, D. Mochalsky, V. Mukhina, Y. Nikolaev, A.Pakhomov, Y. Pimenov, A. Rusakov, V. Pakulin, I. Serebryanyi, I.Toidze, A.Yar-Kravchenko and others.

The exhibition also comprises studies, sketches, photographs and fragments of documentary chronicles that captured the true atmosphere of the war.

V. Serov. Keep Town of Lenin against the Enemy! 1941. Autolithograph. 60 х 85.2 V. Proshkin. Portrait of Guerilla S. Oil on canvas. 46 x 36.2 I. Serebryany. Coming into Attack. 1942. Study. Oil on canvas. 58 x 100.5 V. Milutina.Bunker. 1943. From the Defence Road series. Pencil on paper. 29 x 20.2. Alexander Deineka. A Defense of Sevastopol. 1942. Oil on canvas. 200х400. Photo Tatiana Gord Photo Tatiana Gord Photo Tatiana Gord Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner Photo E. Eliner

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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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