Russia and Belarus: Crossed Destinies

The State Russian Museum and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus open the unprecedented exhibition Russia and Belarus: Crossed Destinies. The Marble Palace presents works by Belarusian artists who graduated from Russian art schools and whose art became the world heritage. The masters often received their professional education in Moscow and St Petersburg, belonged to the same art associations and generally adhered to a single tradition. At the same time, their work retained national features, views of native nature, national heroes and types.

The visitors can see over 300 works by the artists of the 18th–20th centuries who are significant for both Belarus and Russia: painters Sergei Zaryanko, Léon Bakst, Alexandra Exter, Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya, Stanisław Żukowski, Georgy Nissky and Evsei Moiseyenko; graphic artists Ilya Chashnik, Anatoly Kaplan, Anatoly Tychina; sculptors Ilya Ginzburg, Dmitry Stelletsky, Lev Ivanovsky and others. The exhibition is based on the rich and varied collections of the State Russian Museum and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, providing first-rate works for the show.

The exhibition highlights the importance of cultural unity, common history and spiritual friendship of the two Slavic peoples, and becomes a new step in the continuous development of Russian and Belarusian relations.