CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FASHION IN VENICE IN THE 13th - 18th CENTURIES

27 June 2005—31 July 2005

The Russian Museum shows the renewed exposition that was exhibited in Correr Museum in Venice and then had a success in the largest museums of the world. The formatting of the exhibition represents fair trades on San Marco square in Venice of the 13th — 18th centuries. More than three hundred exhibits of the exhibition tell about the fashion evolution in the Venice Republic in the 13th — 18th centuries. There are cloths, suits, shoes, instruments and equipment, lace and precious stones, hats and glasses. The exhibition illustrates more than fifty crafts and allows to learn about the history of every shop flloor where highly skilled masters used to work. There are major shop floors — shoe manufacturers, tailors, silk, wool, cotton and flax manufacturers; different haberdashers: glovers, hose manufacturers, button-makers, lace-makers, dyers, tanners and leather workers. Objects in the exposition are accompanied by historic documents and pictures and give a broad view on the history of Italian fashion.

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St Petersburg in the Era of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna: Paintings and Engravings from the Collection of the Russian Museum

30 June—29 September 2025

Commissioned by the Imperial Academy of Sciences between 1748 and 1750, artist Mikhail Makhayev created a series of masterful drawings depicting views of St Petersburg. Using the original drawings, leading engravers of the Academy’s Engraving Chamber – the principal printing workshop of the Russian Empire – created twelve views of the capital along with a grand map. Their works were then compiled into a splendid album, Plan of the Capital City of St Petersburg with an Image of the Most Illustrious Avenues. Among the exhibits, visitors can see several copies of the 1753 album of panoramic engravings, as well as painted copies based on the engraved originals.

Ivan Pokhitonov. 175th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth

30 April—18 August 2025

For the first time in St Petersburg, the Russian Museum presents an exhibition of the outstanding Russian landscape and realist painter Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923). The exhibition features about 150 works, including paintings, drawings, and works of decorative and applied art. Visitors will discover Ivan Pokhitonov not only as a landscape painter but also as a genre artist, portraitist, and creator of ceramic paintings.

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30 June 2025—1 February 2026 > Stroganov Palace Icons from the Collection of Sergei Stroganov
27 June 2025—1 February 2026 > Stroganov Palace Russian Decorative Trays

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