"IVAN MARTOS, WELL-KNOWN AND UNKNOWN…". The portrait in the sculptor´s oeuvre On the 250-th birth anniversary

15 december 2005—15 may 2006

The exhibition is dedicated to the jubilee of the prominent monumentalist Ivan Martos (1754-1835), presenting the viewers little-studied part of his oeuvre - easel portraits. The exhibition shows numerous preserved works by the master in this genre, including portraits by N. Panin, M. Golitsyn, G. Potemkin-Tavrichesky and Alexander I from the collection of the Russian Museum as well as unknown portraits of I. Betsky, P. Soimonov, A. Lerberg and I. Dmitriyev from the collection of the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Preserve, Museum of Mines, Russian National Library and Mikhail Lomonosov Museum of the Russian Academy of Science. A catalogue for the exhibition has been published.

Exhibitions

Alexander Myasoyedov. Carnival in Rome

12 december 2019—10 march 2020

The exhibition allows to observe the creation history of this work and to identify the depicted persons, and also to plunge into the festive atmosphere of "The Eternal City" of the time the painting were created.

Mikhail Nesterov. Holy Russia. Restoration

18 october—25 november 2019

The exhibition will present a painting by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862–1942) “Holy Russia”, the complex restoration of which was completed in the Russian Museum, as well as photo and video documentation of the restoration works.

Also in the Russian Museum

21 november 2019—14 january 2020 > Marble Palace Nikolay Rybakov. Yeniseian Routes
15 november 2019—13 january 2020 > St Michael’s Castle Valaam: 200 years in Russian Painting

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