This exhibition is dedicated to late Russian Museum staff member Tatyana Borisovna Vilinbakhova. Having joined the Russian Museum team in 1975, Tatyana Borisovna took charge of the Department of Old Russian Art at the museum in 1981. From that time on, all of the department’s research efforts and exhibition events proceeded under her stewardship, bearing the mark of her creative and at the same time responsible approach to museum business. The focus of Vilinbakhova’s scholarly interest was Novgorod icon painting of the 15th and early-16th centuries, as well as the work of the “Stroganov Masters” during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Some of the more notable exhibition projects implemented under Tatyana Vilinbakhova’s tutelage were From the Collections of Nikolai Likhachev, Russian Antiquities, and Art of the Stroganov Masters. This exhibition reflects on a theme that had long been a focus of Vilinbakhova’s research.
The exhibition spotlights old Russian icons, wooden sculptures, personal sacred objects and jewellery created in various places and at different times, yet sharing the same theme. St George is one of the most highly venerated saints in Russia. His image is viewed as symbolic of Russian history. “St George and the Dragon” is the most frequently recurring subject in the Russian St George iconography. Despite their great number, no two St George icons are completely alike. Each rendition of St George’s image draws on its own sources and depicts different scenes from the saint’s hagiography. What they all have in common is the consummate mastery of the medieval Russian artists who painted them.
30 paintings from the life of Peter the Great
9 June 2022—9 August 2022
The exhibition “30 paintings from the life of Peter the Great” is taking place on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg. The project is a reconstruction of an exhibit that was held 150 years ago at the same location and is dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the first Russian emperor. Fourteen original paintings from the 1872 exhibition were discovered in the State Russian Museum’s funds. They were digitally restored and will be exhibited in the form of outstanding quality canvas prints. The honour to fill the gaps and create modern interpretations of the same historical subjects was granted to the students, alumni and professors of Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
Nicholas Roerich. In Search of Shambala
27 September 2019—1 March 2020
An exhibition held at the Malaga Branch of the Russian Museum presents more than seventy paintings by Nicholas Roerich, dedicated to the influence of culture on religion and vice-versa, and reflecting the spiritual quest of the artist.
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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