The work of Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) occupies a special place in history of Russian art. The major exhibition from the funds of the Russian Museum will provide an ...
Benois Wing
Stroganov Palace
Pavel Stroganov: Italian Journey
Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov (1823-1911), traveling with his family in Italy in 1839-1841, captured the image of this country in numerous drawings, whic...
St Michael’s Castle
The exhibition was prepared for the 200th anniversary of one of the most fa...
Benois Wing
17 november 2021—10 march 2022
The exhibition, for the first time, comprises works of famous and lesser-known masters, in whose art different sides of the ideas of cosmism, clearly manifested in Russian sc...
Benois Wing
Vyacheslav Pakulin: Searching for the Style of an Era
Vyacheslav Pakulin, endowed with a unique, striking talent, in 1920s and 1930s was caught up by the search for a "great style", paying tribute to...
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Permanent and temporary 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.
18 march 2020—30 march 2020
New timetable in Mikhailovsky palace from March 18 - 30
15 february 2018—15 february 2018
Classical music in the Russian Museum
Collections
Among the museum collections of Russian icon painting, the icon collection of the Russian Museum, alongside the Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow Museum of History, has pride of place. The collection numbers more than five thousand icons from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries. The collection of Old Russian art and craft work, sculpture and applied art stands on a par with the collections of the largest museums in Russia. It is one of the most important collections, providing a view of the development of Russian decorative and applied art over the centuries — from the ninth to the seventeenth.
Also in the Mikhailovsky Palace:
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 8:p.m. | |
| Tuesday | The Museum is closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier
Getting here
4 Inzhenernaya Str., St. Petersburg
Metro - Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt
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Virtual tours
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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