Historic part of the Levitin’s collection that is presented on the exhibition unites artists of classic of the beginning of the century – Natalia Goncharova and Boris Grigoryev, Philip Malyavin and Aleksandr Yakovlev, Pyotr Miturich and Pyotr Lvov, Vasily Chekrygin and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Magnificent gouaches by Vera Yermolaeva and the artworks by the artist Tyshler were the pride of Levitin.
Among paintings that are presented on the exhibition, the artworks by the artists, who were connected with theatre – Natan Altman and Valery Dorrer, Zaven Arshakuni and Feliks Volosyonkov, take a special place. The perfect artworks created by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Aleksei Karev, Aleksandr Rusakov, Aleksei Pakhomov. Close acquaintance of Grigory Levitin with the authors allowed inserting of paintings by Boris Birger, Artur Fonvizin into the collection. They were quite often acquired directly in their studious.
Collection of Grigory Levitin is one of the largest and the most interesting in the Russian Museum collection.
After Levitin’s death, according to his testament, the Russian Museum collection enlarged with 130 paintings and more than 2 thousands graphic works. Thanks to the Levitin’s collection the Russian Museum collection acquired new talented, original, but little-known names.
From Peter the Great to Elizabeth Petrovna
1 June—23 September 2024
This exhibition, unique in its scale, covers the period from the death of Peter the Great to the accession to the throne of his daughter Elizabeth Petrovna (1725–1742). The main events of the internal Russian life in the time of struggle for Peter the Great’s legacy shown on the material from the collections of 21 museums, including State Hermitage Museum, the State Historical Museum, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of the History of St Petersburg, the Peterhof State Museum and Reserve, the Pavlovsk State Museum, the Arkhangelskoye State Museum and Reserve and others.
Master of Painting. 325th Anniversary of Ivan Vishnyakov’s Birth
26 April—1 July 2024
Ivan Vishnyakov is one of the leading artist of the 18th century, portraitist, mural painter, restorer and teacher. However, not much of the artist’s vast legacy, the result of thirty years of untiring creative activity, has survived to the present day. All the more valuable are the eleven surviving portraits in the collections of the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Vasily Tropinin and Moscow Artists of His Time, art museums in Tver and Rybinsk, and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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