Alexander Labas: Drawings and Watercolours from the Russian Museum Collection
Alexander Labas (1900–1983) was one of the founders of the Easel Painters’ Society (OST, 1925–1932), a gr...
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Benois Wing
Benois Wing
Inspired by the Classics: Neoclassicism in Russia
This exhibition is dedicated to Russian Neoclassicism, an early 20th-century art trend that, alongside avant-garde, was influential in shaping Russia...
St Michael’s Castle
Timur Novikov’s Wedge. The New Academy of Fine Arts
This exhibition commemorates 65 years since the birth of Timur Novikov (1958–2002), artist and founder of two movements – New Artists in ...
Marble Palace
Ancient Myth and the Modern World
The exhibition includes around 70 paintings and sculptures from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, taken from the Russian Museum collection and from artists’...
Stroganov Palace
The name of Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875–1944) is inseparably connected with the flourishing of lyrical landscape in the Silver Age of Russian culture.
- 27 july 2023 > Marble Palace Concert "Musical Adventures"
- 27 july—28 july 2023 > The State Russian Museum Important information for the participants of the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg
- 29 june 2023 > Marble Palace Pianist Vladislav Mikhalchuk in the Marble Palace
Exhibitions
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Permanent exhibition
Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The permanent exhibition housed in the first four halls of Mikhailovsky Palace represents a part of this collection, the most valuable works of XII-XVII centuries created in the major art centers of Old Russia: Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Moscow, and Yaroslavl.
Russian Art of the XVIII Century
Permanent exhibition
The exposition of Russian art of XVIII century is chronologically organized and presents the main stages and trends of Russian art of this time. One part of the display is dedicated to the time of Peter I and focuses mainly on the names of Ivan Nikitin and Andrei Matveyev, the greatest portraitists and leaders of the secular Russian art of this time. Genre of portrait of the middle and second part of XVIII century is presented by such artists as Ivan Vishyakov, Alexey Antropov, Ivan Argunov, Fyodor Rokotov.
Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century
Permanent exhibition
The exhibition shows masterpieces representing the variety of trends in the Russian art of the time (classicism, romantism and beginning in the second third of the XIX century realism). The works by academic school masters are also widely represented: the canvases by Karl Brullov (the famous «The Last Days of Pompeii», religious compositions and portraits of the artist’s contemporaries), historical paintings by Grigory Ugryumov, Alexander Ivanov, Alexey Egorov, Fyodor Bruni.
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 august 2007—1 october 2007
Fate is a concept that one cannot do without when characterizing the art of Michael Hazin.
9 august 2007—26 august 2007
On 9 August the Stroganov Palace of the Russian Museum opens the Nature is a Great Magician! exhibition.
31 may 2007—30 july 2007
The Zhostovo Art exhibition is opening in the Stroganov Palace of the Russian Museum on the 31st of May.
Timur Novikov’s Wedge. The New Academy of Fine Arts
26 july—25 september 2023
This exhibition commemorates 65 years since the birth of Timur Novikov (1958–2002), artist and founder of two movements – New Artists in the 1980s and the New Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s.
14 july—11 september 2023
The current exhibition showcases some 70 artworks by Ivan Godlevsky from the private collection of Vladimir Kaplunov. The artist’s graphic works are on show for the first time ever.
13 april—3 july 2023
Initiated to coincide with 152 years since the artist’s birth, this exhibition follows extensive research undertaken to elaborate on certain aspects of Leonid Sherwood’s artistic biography and reconstruct the history and destinies of many of his works.
16 june 2021—19 july 2021
The name of Ivan Sotnikov (1961, Leningrad - 2015, St. Petersburg), artist and priest, marks a specific period of 35 years of St. Petersburg art. The first graphic exhibition of Sotnikov in the Russian Museum displays a cycle of 14 works about the ancient Greek hero Heracles (2012)
Ivan Lubennikov: Paintings. Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
22 april 2021—21 june 2021
The jubilee exhibition of Ivan Lubennikov includes more than 60 paintings of different years, from the 1980s to the present day, and is designed to present a wide range of topics that the author is passionate about.
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art
4 march 2021—28 june 2021
Millennials or Generation Y - those who were born in the 1980s-1990s and entered the new millennium at a young age. This generation is characterized by the difficult self-identification and the attention to the problem of self-presentation, reflected in the authors' attempt to talk more about their individual experiences, their fears, traumas or fantasy worlds.
Alexander Benois di Stetto. Genevan Period
11 september 2006—5 october 2006
The Russian Museum presents the exhibition of the works by Alexander Benois di Stetto.
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.
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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