The State Russian Museum / St Michael’s Castle Valaam: 200 years in Russian Painting
Valaam Island, a unique natural monument and an inexhaustible source of Orthodox faith, has long been known as an ideal place for artists’ creative retreats. I.I. Shishkin, A.I. Kuindzhi, F.A. Vasiliev, M.K. Klodt, A.V. Gine and other Russian painters would go to Valaam to paint landscapes and stay in the monastery.
After the revolution of 1917, Valaam was part of independent Finland. With the beginning of the Winter War at the end of November 1939, it was decided to evacuate the monastery to Heinävesi. This is how the history of the New Valaam Monastery in Finland began.
Nowadays, we have an opportunity to present the continuous history of the artistic life of Valaam, the Northern Athos, as a whole. The exhibition “Valaam: 200 years in Russian Painting” for the first time unites the valuable collection of paintings of the New Valaam Monastery (Finland) and works from the Valaam Monastery (Russia). Works on Valaam theme from the State Russian Museum and private collections are also part of the exhibit of more than 70 works.
The exhibition is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Valaam monastery reopening for religious use.
From Peter the Great to Elizabeth Petrovna
1 June—23 September 2024
This exhibition, unique in its scale, covers the period from the death of Peter the Great to the accession to the throne of his daughter Elizabeth Petrovna (1725–1742). The main events of the internal Russian life in the time of struggle for Peter the Great’s legacy shown on the material from the collections of 21 museums, including State Hermitage Museum, the State Historical Museum, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of the History of St Petersburg, the Peterhof State Museum and Reserve, the Pavlovsk State Museum, the Arkhangelskoye State Museum and Reserve and others.
Master of Painting. 325th Anniversary of Ivan Vishnyakov’s Birth
26 April—1 July 2024
Ivan Vishnyakov is one of the leading artist of the 18th century, portraitist, mural painter, restorer and teacher. However, not much of the artist’s vast legacy, the result of thirty years of untiring creative activity, has survived to the present day. All the more valuable are the eleven surviving portraits in the collections of the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Vasily Tropinin and Moscow Artists of His Time, art museums in Tver and Rybinsk, and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
- 15 March—13 May 2024 > Mikhailovsky Palace Mstislav Farmakovsky. 150th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
- 21 February—13 May 2024 > Benois Wing Anna Golubkina (1864–1927). 160th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
In the online shop of the Russian Museum presented a huge range of souvenirs, illustrated editions and multimedia disks.
