Mikhail Makhayev’s St Petersburg
14 october 2022—13 february 2023
The sketches and drawings of Mikhail Makhayev (1717–1770), the great Russian 18th-century veduta master, are the only way we have of appreciating St Petersb...
The State Russian Museum
Branches:
St Michael’s Castle
Benois Wing
Images of Military Life in Russian Art from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
Images of Military Life is an extensive exhibition featuring icons, paintings, sculptures, and applied and decorative artwor...
Benois Wing
Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life
The Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace can be seen as a diptych comprised of two exhibitions: Images of Military Life in Russian Art...
St Michael’s Castle
Drawings and Watercolours of the 18th century
23 december 2022—27 march 2023
This exhibition offers visitors the rare opportunity to appreciate the more interesting and notable specimens of 18th century drawing and watercolour f...
Stroganov Palace
This exhibition celebrates 150 years since the birth of Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogayevsky (1872–1943), one of the most prominent artists of Russia’s Silver Age. A pupi...
Marble Palace
Natalia Zemlyanaya. World Creation. Painting and Graphic Art
St Petersburg artist Natalia Zemlyanaya’s solo exhibition features approximately 80 of her paintings and pastels from the 1990s and 2000s.
Mikhailovsky Palace
The exhibition in the Garden Vestibule of the Mikhailovsky ...
- 22 december 2022 > Marble Palace Concert "Orchestra without a conductor".
- 15 december 2022 > St Michael’s Castle New timetable in St. Michael's Castle. December 15
- 9 december 2022 > St Michael’s Castle New timetable in St. Michael's Castle. December 09.
Exhibitions
Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century
Permanent exhibition
Even when it first opened back in 1898, the Russian Museum owned many canvases painted by such masters of the second half of the nineteenth century as Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Makovsky, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov and Vasily Surikov. Although the selection of works before the revolution was often hampered by the conservative tastes of museum officialdom, the collection nevertheless grew in breadth thanks to the efforts of Alexander Benois, Albert Benois, Igor Grabar and Pyotr Neradovsky.
23 february—17 april 2023
The exhibition in the Garden Vestibule of the Mikhailovsky Palace is dedicated to the restoration of a large-scale painting National Fête During Shrovetide on Admiralty Square in St Petersburg (215 х 321 cm) by Konstantin Makovsky and its original frame.
Images of St George the Victorious in Old Rus. In Memory of Tatyana Vilinbakhova
22 december 2022—13 february 2023
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.
Nikolai Zagrekov. Return to Russia
23 september 2004—10 november 2004
The Nikolaus Sagrekow Return to Russia exhibition presents the oeuvre of a German artist of Russian origin whose dramatic fate mirrors the twentieth-century history of both Germany and Russia.
Anatoly Kiselev. From the Jubilee 2004 cycle
5 august 2004—13 september 2004
The exhibition is dedicated to the 75th birthday anniversary of the St Petersburg sculptor Anatoly Kiselev. His monumental and monumental - decorative works decorate the squares of the cities of the former Soviet Union.
9 july 2004—15 november 2004
The exhibition held in the Russian Museum is aimed to revive the atmosphere of "The Knave of Diamonds" association's exhibitions.
30 november 2016—6 february 2017
The Russian Museum in conjunction with the Sakhalin Art Museum presents the exhibition The World of Nivkh, which opens up the culture of one of the oldest indigenous people of the Russian North.
Reflection. Watercolors and drawings of Andrey Esionov
14 september 2016—15 november 2016
Russian Museum invites to the personal exhibition of painter and graphic artist Andrey Esionov. That is his first exhibition in St Petersburg, but there already were several exhibitions in Europe and in Moscow – at the Academy of Arts and Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
23 june 2016—5 september 2016
The exhibition presents the oeuvre of Nikolay Shestopalov (1875-1954) for the first time after a long break. This artist acquired appraisal and fame in the 1900-1920-s and afterwards remained forgotten for a long time.
I Am Dostoevsky. To the 200th Anniversary of the Writer’s Birth
13 november 2021—14 march 2022
The F.M.Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum presents an exhibition to the 200th anniversary of the writer.
The exhibition is based on paintings from the imaginary "ideal museum of the writer", which were especially significant for Dostoevsky throughout his life. He did not miss a single exhibition in St. Petersburg, in Europe he got acquainted with the main museums and galleries, he knew the Dresden Gallery, the Pitti Palace, the Uffizi almost by heart. He considered Raphael's Sistine Madonna one of the greatest masterpieces, admired the landscapes of Claude Lorrain, the gates of the Florentine Baptistery, Saint Agatha by Sebastiano del Piombo, Penitent Magdalene by Batoni, this list is pretty extensive.
On the history of the St. Michael’s castle
12 november 2021—14 february 2022
St. Michael’s Castle is an outstanding monument of history and architecture of the turn of the 18th - 19th centuries. The building, erected at the will and under the direct supervision of Emperor Pavel I, had a difficult fate. The exposition "On the history of the St. Michael’s Castle", which is offered to the attention of visitors, makes it possible to see the research of the monument building, restoration and museification being carried out.
14 october 2021—22 november 2021
The exhibition was prepared for the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous and frequently cited Russian writers - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
His training at the Engineering School (in the 1840s), located in the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle (now a branch of the Russian Museum), is an excellent occasion for the Russian Museum to pay tribute to the memory of one of the authors of the Petersburg myth by presenting an exposition of works from the museum collection in honor of this anniversary.
14 november 2019—7 january 2020
The exhibition presents the works by a famous St. Petersburg sculptor Dmitry Kaminker made in bronze, stone, wood, plaster or paper.
Barry Cawston. Russia: Far from Black and White
26 september 2019—4 november 2019
The exhibition presents works by famous English photographer Barry Cawston taken in Russia between 2014 and 2018.
22 august 2019—28 october 2019
The exhibition will present the diversity of Russian sculpture of the late XX — early XXI century made from polymers and plastics.
A. Morozov's: Memories of the Past Exhibition. Painting, Graphic Art
5 june 2006—28 june 2006
Anatoly Larionov. Petersburg Suite
3 may 2006—28 may 2006
The exposition presents the oeuvre of the Petersburg photographer Anatoly Larionov.
Anatoly Gromov. Magic of light
6 march 2006—3 april 2006
Modern exhibition of Cabin of Peter the Great
Permanent exhibition
Modern exhibition of the museum comprises items dating back to Peter I’s time, including memorial paraphernalia, such as: red broadcloth uniform, an oriental cane, a model of Peter I’s hand based on an imprint made at Lipetsk foundry in 1707, a wherry, and Peter’s armchair.
CLOSE TO NOT. VLADIMIR TARASOV AND SARAH FLOHR. SOUND INSTALLATION
16 june 2005—24 july 2005
The installation of the Lithuanian musician Vladimir Tarasov and the American artist Sarah Flohr will be shown in the Mikhailovsky Garden of the State Russian Museum on 16 June.
The “Inner Book” of the G. A. V. Traugot Brothers
14 january 2022—12 february 2022
The creative tandem of brothers Alexander and Valery Traugot does not need a special introduction. It became a truly significant phenomenon in the artistic life of post-war Leningrad, and a huge number of book illustrations signed with the memorable triple initial “G.A.V.” together represents one of the brightest pages in the history of the Soviet post-war art of the book.
The high technology interactive exposition "Our Romantic Emperor"
25 march 2017—31 december 2017
The high technology interactive exposition "Our Romantic Emperor" located on three floors of the Western Pavilion of St. Michael's Castle is devoted to Paul I, the author and owner of the ensemble of St. Michael's Castle.
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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