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In Memory of Irina Boguslavskaya. 95th Anniversary of Her Birth

In Memory of Irina Boguslavskaya. 95th Anniversary of Her Birth

21 November 2024—31 January 2025

The exhibition is devoted to Irina Boguslavskaya (1929–2021), one of the leading researchers of folk art, Doctor of Art History, Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR. From 1963 to 2019, she headed the Folk Art Department of the Russian Museum. The exhibition features a variety of items related to Irina Boguslavskaya’s research activities, many artworks, such as items of peasant everyday life, handicrafts etc.

Karl the Great. 225th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth

Karl the Great. 225th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth

18 October 2024—12 May 2025

The anniversary exhibition of “Karl the Great”. Karl Brullov needs no special introduction. He was the only Russian classical artist of the 19th century who gained fame in Europe in his lifetime and worldwide recognition after his death. He certainly had natural gift for painting. Moreover, he was a highly qualified professional of brilliant and fascinating personality. Only Brullov was honoured with a kind of title “Karl the Great” that showed the appreciation and admiration of his colleagues, art connoisseurs, and students during his lifetime.

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Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries

Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries

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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.

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21 November 2023—23 November 2023 Changes in the opening hours of Hall No. 36 of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
28 September 2022—11 October 2022 New timetable in Mikhailovsky palace from September 28 - Oktober 11
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Art of Old Russia

Art of Old Russia

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:
Painting of the XVIII – early XIX centuries The majority of paintings that formed the basis of the Russian Museum collection during its establishment are from the period of the eighteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Painting of the second half of the XIX – early XXI centuries Among the paintings handed over to the Russian Museum at the time of its foundation, a significant portion was comprised of works by leading artists of the second half of the XIX century. (I.K. Aivazovsky, V.M. Vasnetsov, K.E. Makovsky, I.E. Repin, V.D.Polenov, V.I.Surikov). Despite the fact that the selection of paintings for the museum in the first two decades of its existence was somewhat limited by the conservative tastes of the Council of the Academy of Arts, the range of paintings presented in the collection was constantly expanding. This can largely be credited to museum officials, such as Albert and Alexander Benois, I.E.Grabar, P.I.Neradovsky and others.
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Mikhailovsky Palace

Monday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 7:p.m.
Tuesday The Museum is closed
Wednesday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 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.

Exhibitions "Karl the Great. 225th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth" and "Viktor Vasnetsov. 175th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth"


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