Drawings and watercolours

The origins of the graphic collection of the Russian Museum date back to the time of its opening, 7(19) March 1898. On this day sketches, drawings and watercolors by K.Brullov, F. Bruni, A. Egorov, K. Beggrov and other masters of the first half of the nineteenth century were exhibited in two halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Works from the collection «Drawings and watercolours»

Peasants at Dinner
Ivan ErmenevMid-1760s

Self-Portrait (In the Cabinet of Engravings of the Hermitage).
Gavriil SkorodumovCirca 1790

Gatchina. View of the Gatchina Palace from Long Island
Silvestr Shchedrin1798

Artist’s Model Against Red Drapery
Orest Kiprensky1802

The Flight into Egypt
Alexei Egorov1820s

Portrait of Sofia Kramskaya
Ivan Kramskoi1879

Pines
Ivan Shishkin1880s

Sorcery
Konstantin Somov1898-1902

Two Wenches
Philipp Malyavin1910s

Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova
Valentin Serov1911

Portrait of a Girl
Boris Grigoriev1917From the Raseya cycle

Landscape. Canal
Alexander Arefiev1955

At the Window
Georgy Vereisky1928

Young Merchant’s Wife in a Checked Headscarf
Boris Kustodiev1919

Red Bridge
Nikolai Lapshin1940

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
Nikolai Tyrsa1928

Pub
Pavel Filonov1924