The State Russian Museum / St Michael’s Castle True to Tradition. Paintings by St Petersburg Artists from a Private Collection
The exhibition housed in St. Michael's Castle presents the works of St. Petersburg artists from the collection of Valery Pustarnakov - collectioner and patron of art. His collection comprises pieces of art of different stylistic trends and genres, but joined by the realistic tradition.
The exhibition includes a variety of paintings, sketches and pastels presenting such genres as landscape (of St. Petersburg and its suburbs and of the Russian North), portrait and still-life performed by the artists V. Brataniuk, I. Varichev, N. Volodimirov, N. Galakhov, V. Zagonek, V. Reichet, N. Repin, I. Savenko, B. Semenov, S. Smirnov, O. Teniaev and others.
16 august—13 november 2017
The Russian Museum houses the biggest part of Rylov’s artistic heritage: paintings and sketches of various periods, graphic works, illustrations. This will allow to present all stages of his artistic development for the first time after his last personal exhibition in 1970.
28 june—31 july 2017
The personal exhibition of Georgy Shishkin comprises his major artistic cycles among which are “Russian dreams” – which was first presented in 1990s in Paris, Cannes, Monaco and other cities and brought the artist wide popularity; paintings dedicated to the Ballets Russes and Sergei Diaghilev; works consecrated to the Russian history and portraits of the prominent actors, ballet dancers: Jean Marais, Gérard Depardieu, Inna Churikova, Milorad Mišković etc.
- 27 april—14 august 2017 > Benois Wing The Art of Novgorod the Great in the Time of Prelate Macarius
- 20 april—24 july 2017 > Benois Wing Vasily Vereshchagin. To the 175th Anniversary of the Artist
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
In the online shop of the Russian Museum presented a huge range of souvenirs, illustrated editions and multimedia disks.
