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From the very moment of its creation, the Russian Museum was considered primarily as a collection of Russian painting. Nowadays his collection includes about 15 thousand works by painters of the 18th-20th centuries. By the time the museum opened, its collection numbered about four hundred paintings. The core of the collection consisted of receipts from three main sources - the Hermitage, the Academy of Arts and the imperial palaces - the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and suburban ones.
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The virtual tour was created based on a temporary exhibition that took place at the Russian Museum from December 22, 2016 to March 20, 2017. The exhibition includes paintings and graphic works by the master from the collection of the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Peterhof Museum-Reserve, the Feodosia Art Gallery. I.K. Aivazovsky, as well as from other museums in Russia.
Year of creation: 2017 | Interactive program | Russian language
The virtual tour was created on the basis of a temporary exhibition held at the Russian Museum from December 2, 2016 to March 13, 2017 as part of the “Theater” project Russian history. House of Romanov - facts, legends and myths. The saga of a dynasty."
The program allows you to take a virtual tour through the exhibition halls, accompanied by audio guides, to examine in detail and obtain additional information about each of the exhibits. As part of the tour, two films are shown: “Groot - Elizaveta Petrovna’s Hofmaler” and “The Art of Elizabethan Time”.
Year of creation: 2016 | Interactive program | Russian language
An interactive program based on the painting by Vasily Istomin allows you to get to know the ceremony participants in more detail. Among them, in addition to members of the imperial family, were Chancellor Count A.A. Bezborodko, leader of the district nobility P.V. Rimsky-Korsakov (grandfather of the composer N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov), military leader A.A. Arakcheev, the customer of the painting, Archimandrite Gerasim, and many others, the artist also depicted at least 80 Tikhvin residents. The program consists of five sections and allows you to view the image in high resolution, and also see the author's animation.
Year of creation: 2016 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 33:11
The film was created on the basis of a number of artifacts of the 18th century and a painting by V. Istomin from the collection of the Russian Museum “The Transfer of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin on June 9, 1798,” 1801.
Year of creation: 2016 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 12:48
The film tells about the work of I.K. Aivazovsky, famous painter, artist of the Main Naval Staff. His paintings of the raging sea, naval battles, and the Ecumenical Flood are widely known, but have we ever thought about the means by which the master conveys the element of water?
Year of creation: 2016 | Multimedia film | in two parts | Language: Russian | Duration: 21:12; 12:08
The film, in two parts, is dedicated to the main court artist of the Elizabethan era, G.H. Groot, and the art of the Elizabethan era.
Year of creation: 2016 | Interactive program | Virtual tour of the exhibition | Language: Russian, English
Virtual tour based on a temporary exhibition "Peter I. Time and environment", held at the Russian Museum from December 17, 2015 to April 3, 2016.
Year of creation: 2016 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 15:09
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding master landscape painting, who, after brilliantly graduating from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, received the right to a long trip to Italy to improve his skills, where he remained until the end of his life.
Year of creation: 2015 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the event captured on canvas by the artist M.-F. Kvadalem, - the coronation of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna in 1797. Ceremony took place within the walls of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 16:24
The film is dedicated to two famous works from the collection of the Russian Museum, paintings by B.M. Kustodiev “Celebration in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 19, 1920. Demonstration on Uritsky Square (1921) and V.V. Kuptsov’s ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” (1934).
Year of creation: 2015 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 08:25
The film tells the story of one of the discoveries of restorers, which can be called truly sensational. The Russian Museum has kept “Portrait of a Young Man in a Green Caftan” since the first years of its existence. The assumption that its author could be outstanding master early XVI II century, “Hoff-Mahler” of Peter the Great, Ivan Nikitin, has now received undoubted documentary confirmation.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 04:38
The film tells the story of Karl Steuben's painting, dedicated to a dramatic episode in the life of the young Tsarevich Pyotr Alekseevich. It captures the moment of the Streltsy revolt, provoked by the de facto ruler of the Russian state, Princess Sophia, when 10-year-old Peter was in mortal danger.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 04:30
The film, dedicated to a little-known painting by the artist Adolphe Charlemagne, reveals one of the ominous pages of the era of the beginning of Peter the Great's reign. Its plot was a conspiracy against the tsar, which matured among high-ranking boyars and streltsy commanders. The conspiracy was led by a colonel Streltsy army Ivan Eliseevich Tsykler, under whose name the conspiracy went down in history.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:30
The film tells about one of the lifetime portraits Peter I, which was executed by his court painter, a Saxon by birth, I.G. Tannauer. The Emperor is depicted on the battlefield at the moment of victory over the army of King Charles XII and the troops of his ally Hetman Mazepa.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:20
The painting “The Capture of Azov” (1702) is an example of the reflection of the real time in Russian art of Peter the Great historical event. Then, as a result of the Azov campaigns of Tsar Peter Alekseevich, the Ottoman Empire suffered its first major defeat, and Russia gained a foothold at the mouth of the Don and gained access to the southern seas.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:50
In the film, created according to the script of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev, tells about the work of the famous European artist of the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries, M.-F. Kvadal, who depicted the coronation of Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna, which took place on April 5, 1897 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 03:10
A film about the famous painting by N.N. Ge reveals the circumstances of the tragic confrontation between Peter I and Tsarevich Alexei (1690-1718), Peter's eldest son from his first wife Evdokia Lopukhina.
Year of creation: 2015 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 06:00
Among the many, often shocking reforms of Peter the Great, one of the most famous innovations was the holding of unprecedented public meetings - assemblies.
Year of creation: 2015 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 03:34
In 1846, the painter of the Main Naval Staff I.K. Aivazovsky created a number of battle works, dedicated to events Northern War with the Swedes: naval battles of Reval, Vyborg, Krasnaya Gorka, which played the role of a temporary shelter for Peter the Great’s fleet during the capture of Vyborg in 1710.
Year of creation: 2014 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of participants in the “Sports in Russian Fine Arts” competition, which was held in 2013 among visitors and managers of the information and educational centers “Russian Museum: Virtual Branch” and was timed to coincide with the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Barnaul, Vsevolozhsk, Yekaterinburg, Kohtla-Jarve (Estonia), Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Petrozavodsk, Tambov, Tver, Orsha (Belarus), St. Petersburg, Sosnovy Bor and Syktyvkar.
Year of creation: 2014 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, English, Italian
The multimedia program brings together about 500 works by Russian artists who worked in Italy and Italian masters who left their mark on Russian art, including making a significant contribution to the architectural appearance of the palaces of the Russian Museum.
Year of creation: 2014 | Video presentation | Russian language
The collection of the Russian Museum makes it possible again and again to closely examine the aesthetics of the environment that formed the artist Nicholas Roerich, philosopher and writer. The video presentation presents exhibits of the collection created by the St. Petersburg artistic association“World of Art” and artists close to this circle.
Year of creation: 2014 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program brought together about 1000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, arts and crafts and monumental art, as well as caricatures from the collection of the Russian Museum and the collections of 60 art museums in Russia.
Year of creation: 2014 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:40
The film, created according to the script of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev, based on high-precision shooting of the painting by G.G. Chernetsov’s “Parade and prayer service on the occasion of the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg” significantly expands the understanding of the Nicholas era and introduces the characters of a unique group portrait.
Year of creation: 2014 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 09:40
The film tells the story of a significant event in the life of the imperial family and the entire royal dynasty. When baptized from the Lutheran faith into Orthodoxy, Louise Maria Augusta, daughter of the Margrave of Baden Karl Ludwig, the bride of Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, was named Elizaveta Alekseevna in 1793.
Year of creation: 2014 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 14:50
The film is dedicated to an important event in the history of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church - the transfer on June 9, 1798 of a particularly revered relic - the miraculous icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Tikhvin Monastery to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin after the completion of its repairs and renovation of the paintings. The painting by artist Vasily Istomin, executed in 1801, captured this solemn event, described in detail in the St. Petersburg Gazette.
Year of creation: 2014 | Computer film | Language: Russian | Duration: 08:54
The film contains a detailed story about the portrait of Paul I in the vestments of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta that came to the Russian Museum in 1897 from the Romanov Gallery of the Winter Palace.
Year of creation: 2013 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of participants in the competition of the same name, which was held in 2012 by the Russian Museum among visitors and heads of virtual branches of the Russian Museum. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Vsevolozhsk, Gomel, Gorno-Altaisk, Yekaterinburg, Kirishi, Kostroma, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Tagil, Tambov, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Sosnovy Bor and Kharkov.
Year of creation: 2013 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 15:40
The multimedia film is dedicated to the most famous painting by Grigory Chernetsov “Parade to mark the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg” (1837).
Year of creation: 2013 | Interactive program | Russian language
The interactive program is dedicated to the most famous painting by Grigory Chernetsov “Parade to mark the end of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on October 6, 1831 on Tsaritsyn Meadow in St. Petersburg” (1837).
Year of creation: 2012 | Russian language
The disk contains multimedia resources of participants in the competition “Italy in Russian Fine Arts”, which was held in 2011 by the Russian Museum among visitors and heads of virtual branches of the Russian Museum. Multimedia interactive programs, films and presentations were created by schoolchildren, students and employees of virtual branches of the Russian Museum from Barnaul, Vsevolozhsk, Gomel, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Nizhny Tagil, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Tver and Tula. They use works from the Russian Museum and regional collections, which reflect the theme of Russian-Italian cultural heritage.
Year of creation: 2012 | Gaming computer program | 6+ | Russian language
The “Fireflies” program is the next, third in the series of children’s games “Peers” (the first was released in 2009). The game is intended for children 6-9 years old, as well as their parents, teachers and everyone who loves the Russian Museum and Russian art. The game is dedicated to issues of light (illumination) in painting.
The film was shot at the exhibition of the Russian Museum “Clio’s Chosen. Heroes and villains of Russian history." The leitmotif of the story by the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev became the reformist activity of Emperor Alexander II, which overnight changed the lives of hundreds of people and, of course, was reflected in Russian painting.
Year of creation: 2011 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:49
Russian everyday painting amazes with its breadth, with which it covers the most significant aspects of the then reality. One of the first places in it is occupied by the Russian village. The everyday genre shows the viewer not only the hardships of peasant life, but also the charm of everyday life. In the film V.A. Gusev we'll talk about paintings by such artists as A.G. Venetsianov, G.V. Soroka, K.E. Makovsky, A.P. Ryabushkin and others.
Year of creation: 2011 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:53
Author's program of Vladimir Gusev. Peter I was the first Russian ruler who systematically built a myth about himself and the period of his reign. The image of Peter has always been romanticized. As A.S. will write later. Pushkin: “Now an academician, now a hero, now a navigator, now a carpenter.” The Russian Museum has a large collection of works dedicated to the image of the great emperor. The program includes a unique picturesque life of Peter I.
Year of creation: 2011 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
This film based on the paintings presented at the exhibition “Clio’s Chosen. Heroes and villains of Russian history." Director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev tells viewers about those works, stories and people that are associated with the main events in the history of the formation of Russian statehood.
Audiovisual lectures by senior researcher of the Russian Museum, Honored Worker of Culture Regina Abramovna Gelman are dedicated to several masterpieces from the collection of the Russian Museum. You can learn about what a “still life” is, how I.E. Repin created his work “Barge Haulers on the Volga” or how, at the most difficult moment of his life, V.I. Surikov decided to write “The Capture of a Snowy Town”.
Year of creation: 2010 | Interactive program | Russian language
This program was prepared for the exhibition of the same name, which presented about 200 works from the collection of the Russian Museum: painting, graphics and decorative and applied art of the 1910-1970s, related to the industrial theme. A significant part of the works was exhibited for the first time.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:59
The film is dedicated to four exhibitions held at the Russian Museum in 2010. The “Sky” exhibition featured works (from icons to contemporary art) that were in one way or another related to “heavenly” themes; “Hymn to Labor” - paintings by representatives of socialist realism and the avant-garde. As part of the exhibition “Smolyanka” by Dmitry Levitsky, viewers for the first time after large-scale restoration saw portraits of students of the Smolny Institute, and the exhibition “From Russian Life of the 18th - Early 20th Centuries” introduced the development everyday genre in works of graphics, sculpture and decorative arts from the collection of the Russian Museum.
In 1994, famous German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig presented the Russian Museum with a collection of works by artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
This film is dedicated permanent exhibition Marble Palace - Ludwig Museum - the only museum exhibition in Russia where you can see classical works world contemporary art from the post-war period to the beginning of the 21st century.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:50
The film is dedicated to the life and work of artist Isaac Levitan, one of the best masters landscape painting. Having made nature the main character of his canvases, Levitan created landscapes that had their own mood and were understandable to every viewer.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:00
This film is dedicated to a special category of landscape artists who painted their works during long expeditions, military campaigns or travels. Such artists were hired specifically to record the expanses they saw or to capture military campaigns. Among such masters are P.N. Mikhailov, who with the team of F.F. Bellingshausen and M.P. Lazarev reached Antarctica, P.P. Svinin, who traveled a lot, including in America, one of the results of his travels was the publication album with views of Russia, as well as M.M. Ivanov, who captured the journey of Empress Catherine II in 1785.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:47
Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky is one of the best portrait painters in the Russian history of painting. In this film, the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev talks about the work of the master and the history of his work on a series of portraits of students of the Smolny Institute noble maidens.
Year of creation: 2010 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film will focus on the most fragile and delicate of all graphic and painting techniques - pastel, which was presented at the exhibition "Pastel in Russia" in the Mikhailovsky Castle of the Russian Museum
Year of creation: 2010 | Gaming computer program | 10+ | Russian language
Year of creation: 2010 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, English
The program dedicated to the palaces and gardens of the Russian Museum includes 220 spherical panoramas. Using panoramic photography technology, interiors and appearance Mikhailovsky, Marble and Stroganovsky palaces, Mikhailovsky Castle, Summer Palace of Peter I and the House of Peter I.
Year of creation: 2010 | Interactive program | Russian language
The multimedia program was released for the exhibition dedicated to the 275th anniversary of the birth of Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky at the Russian Museum. The program talks about the restoration of the famous “Smolyanka” - seven portraits of pupils of the Educational Society for Noble Maidens at the Smolny Institute.
This program was prepared for the exhibition of the same name at the Russian Museum and is dedicated to the beer theme in art. For centuries, beer served Russian artists as a muse, a model, was a source of subjects, a prototype of color and form, and set a specific beer emotional tone for the works. Various moments of making and drinking beer evoked the need to capture, sing, generalize, and reflect.
Year of creation: 2009 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 10:00
The multimedia film is dedicated to the work of A.P. Ryabushkin, a Russian artist who is best known for his historical easel painting.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev is known in Russia and abroad as the organizer of Russian seasons, but few people know that Diaghilev made a great contribution to the development of not only Russian ballet, but also Russian fine art. We can say that for the Russian public he opened their eyes to their own history and culture. V. A. Gusev’s film is dedicated to that unknown side of Diaghilev’s life, which is inextricably linked with the history of Russian art and the result of which was a large-scale exhibition of the portrait in 1905 in the Tauride Palace.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:57
The Makovskys are a famous creative dynasty. Its founder - Egor Ivanovich Makovsky (1802-1886) - famous collector and a passionate lover of art, who stood at the origins of the creation of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:00
In this film we will talk about the portrait of Nikita Akinfievich Demidov by French artist Louis Toquet, who came from Paris to St. Petersburg specifically to work on the portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. During his rather long stay in Russia, the master painted several famous portraits of the Russian aristocracy.
Year of creation: 2009 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program talks about the development of the Russian avant-garde from neo-primitivism to abstraction. It was created specifically to help lecturers and students who wish to independently and deeply study Russian art.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film consists of several short stories on the theme “The Life of Nature and Man...”. The materials of the museum's temporary exhibitions show that nature in a work of art is not just a decoration, but helps to create an artistic image that evokes empathy in the viewer.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian, English, Spanish | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the work of V.L. Borovikovsky, about his innovation in portrait art, about the creation of intimate portraits of his contemporaries.
Year of creation: 2009 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 31:00
The film is dedicated to the work of the artist Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin, who is rightly called a master of genre and historical paintings, unique in their execution.
Year of creation: 2009 | Interactive program | Virtual exhibition | Language: Russian, English, Estonian
The multimedia program is the first project to identify and present in the collections of the Russian Museum works by artists of the 18th-19th centuries associated with the national art school of the Republic of Estonia. The goal of the program is to include into cultural circulation the works of Estonian artists who studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and combined their work in St. Petersburg with life in their homeland.
Year of creation: 2009 | Gaming computer program | 6+, special version for hearing impaired children | Language: Russian, English, Greek
In the interactive game, children are offered tasks traditional for quest games and original mini-games developed based on the works of Russian painters of the 18th-20th centuries.
The film tells the story of the appearance in 1915 of K. S. Malevich’s “Black Square,” created by the author as a statement of a new worldview, a new suprematist world. Vladimir Gusev talks about the unique exhibition "The Adventures of the Black Square".
Year of creation: 2008 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film is about two representatives of the Russian avant-garde: Vera Ermolaeva, a master of painting and graphics, and Nikolai Suetin, a Suprematist, student and associate of Kazimir Malevich.
Year of creation: 2008 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes an electronic catalog of paintings and graphic materials from the heritage of the largest Russian realistic artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (about 150 works), articles by specialists, a chronicle of life and creativity. There is a mode for creating your own image album, as well as a function for copying articles to the clipboard.
Year of creation: 2007 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 05:00
For the exhibition “Soviet Venus”, a multimedia film of the same name was created, which is a kind of introduction to the iconographic traditions of embodying the image of Venus.
Year of creation: 2007 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:45
The large-scale exhibition of the “Seasons” exhibition covers the main stages of the development of Russian landscape. Winter, spring, summer, autumn in the works of famous Russian painters of the 19th and 20th centuries - Sylvester Shchedrin, Mikhail Lebedev, Alexander Ivanov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and others.
Year of creation: 2007 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev tells viewers about three exhibitions of the Russian Museum, which the museum opened in 2007: “Seasons” (Benois building), “Vrubel. To the 150th anniversary of his birth" (Benoit building) and "Herbarium of Love" (Mikhailovsky Castle).
Year of creation: 2007 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
The director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev tells in this film about how the Academy of Arts was founded, what principles of education were laid in its foundation, what the conditions of study were and how students were rewarded for their successes at the opening exhibition “Academy of Arts. 1757-2007. To the 250th anniversary of its founding."
Year of creation: 2007 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:42
The film is dedicated to one of the most famous Russian artists, Mikhail Vrubel. In the film, the viewer will not find a chronological description of the artist’s life, but will be able to get acquainted with a mosaic of facts, quotes and events that will help compose his own own impression about the artist.
The program presents works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts from the collections of the Russian Museum and the Krasnodar Regional art museum them. F. Kovalenko, united by the era of Catherine II - ceremonial portrait, porcelain, monumental and portrait sculpture.
Year of creation: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program contains paintings and graphic works of the artist, sculptures, objects of decorative and applied art, made using the majolica technique, belonging to the collection of the Russian Museum. The program includes about 200 images with annotations for each work and the ability to view enlarged fragments.
Year of creation: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents more than 200 works of painting and graphics by the brothers Apollinaris and Viktor Vasnetsov from the collections of 27 museums across the country, as well as from private collections.
Year of creation: 2007 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the work of Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858), who largely determined the face of the Russian national school of painting, an excellent draftsman and thinker.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 39:02
In this film, Filonov appears before the viewer not only as an artist, but also as a man who sincerely, in his own way, like any genius, loved his wife. Their marriage can be called an age misalliance: she was sixty-two years old, he was forty-three. Filonov was madly in love with his wife. He wrote amazing and tender letters to her, dedicated pages of his diary to her, which is now kept in the collections of the Russian Museum.
The film talks about happy stories the return of several works of art to the collection of the Russian Museum: “Portrait of P.V. Basin” by Orest Kiprensky, “Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna” by the artist Fyodor Bognevsky, “Winter Landscape” by Ivan Endogurov and “Children Who Released the Bird” by the artist unknown artist Venetsianov circle.
The film tells about the art collection of the Russian Museum of the 20th century, which made it possible to “reconstruct” the atmosphere as part of the exhibition “Time of Change” artistic life The USSR of the era of the 1960s -80s of the XX century is the era of the great confrontation between two worlds in Soviet art.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:41
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev again turns to the long-term program of the Russian Museum “Russia”, which allows viewers, moving from city to city, from museum to museum, to discover more and more new stories of life and creativity, sometimes surprisingly artists we know, and often see and learn a lot for the first time.
Viewers will visit the Volga, where I. Repin wrote his famous “Barge Haulers on the Volga”, in Perm in the art gallery of wooden sculpture, as well as in Saratov, where V. Borisov-Musatov lived and worked.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
The film is based on materials from the exhibition of the same name at the Russian Museum, dedicated to the analytical art of Pavel Filonov. Viewers will be treated to a story from the director of the Russian Museum, V.A. Gusev, about the difficult circumstances of Filonov’s life and the main tenets of his work.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:45
An event that occurred in St. Petersburg at the end of September 2006 - the reburial of the ashes of Empress Maria Feodorovna, the emperor's wife, in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of St. Petersburg Alexandra III and the latter's mother Russian Emperor Nicholas II could not leave anyone aside, including the Russian Museum.
In addition, this event coincided in time with another - the opening of a memorial stone at the grave of the artist A.P. Bogolyubov.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
In this film, the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev invites viewers to walk through the halls of the exhibition of Alexei Savrasov, the founder of the lyrical movement in the landscape genre. Time at its peak The artist’s creativity began in the 70s of the 19th century.
In two halls of the second floor enfilade facing Nevsky Prospect, the exhibition “Family Heirlooms and Contributions of the Stroganov Family to Russian Temples” is open. It presents monuments of applied art, icon painting and facial embroidery from the collections of the Russian Museum, associated with the Stroganov family, famous in the history of Russia.
Year of creation: 2006 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
A female portrait is the most attractive and mysterious part of the work of many artists. Two female portraits formed the basis of the film: “Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna with her daughter Maria” by Karl Bryullov and “Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna” written by Vladimir Makovsky.
Year of creation: 2006 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to fine arts and artistic life in the Soviet Union between the so-called “thaw” and the beginning of perestroika. The publication combines two opposing layers in artistic culture 1960-1985. The program includes about 600 images of exhibits, documentary photographs, annotations about the presented works.
The program is dedicated to the coronation of Paul I, which the artist captured on his canvas French origin M.-F. Kvadal. The program materials allow you to get an idea of the coronation ceremony, its participants, as well as the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, within whose walls the ceremony took place.
Year of creation: 2005 | Multimedia film | Russian language
A multimedia film with elements of interactivity presents K. P. Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii” from the collection of the Russian Museum, the history of its creation, historical, archaeological sites and works of ancient Roman art.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:38
The film tells viewers about the latest trends in fine arts. The term “modern” art should be understood not in a chronological, but in a conceptual sense. The rich collections of the Russian Museum contain not only masterpieces selected by time, but also works that are very likely to become classics of tomorrow. Viewers will also get acquainted with the process of forming the fund the latest trends in art, and with the works of contemporary artists who make up it today.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:35
The film tells about a unique exhibition that opened in the Russian Museum. On the walls of the exhibition halls, accompanied by traditional museum labels in in strict order frames are hung: but no pictures!!! Almost always, when visiting a museum, viewers, as a rule, look only at the paintings. And they don’t even notice the frame, perceiving it as an integral part of the picture.
Third movie dedicated to exhibitions Russian Museum "Road" and "Religious Petersburg", introduces works of painting and graphics from the collection of the Russian Museum, as well as a hidden corner of the Mikhailovsky Palace - the Church of the Archangel Michael. The film also tells about the lost churches of St. Petersburg, about the symbolic and metaphorical meaning of the road in works of Russian art.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:46
The film invites you to visit two exhibitions of the Russian Museum: “The Road” and “Religious Petersburg”, and wander among the paintings along the paths of knowledge. Moving from hall to hall, spectators will see religious Petersburg of the 18th - 19th centuries, a royal city resplendent with gilded domes and spiers of numerous temples, cathedrals and churches.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:43
The film tells about the development of Russian church art over more than two centuries - from Peter I to Nicholas II, about Russian icons and church paintings, and about artists who devoted their lives to religious art.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 51:21
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:41
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the whole country was preparing for the holiday. And the Russian Museum is no exception. The exhibition "The Path to Victory" was presented here. It showed works of painting, graphics, and sculpture created in the period from 1941 to 1945.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:48
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is an outstanding artist of the 20th century. Today it is impossible to imagine the history of Russian and world culture without the name and work of Marc Chagall. In this film, the Russian Museum will present grand exhibition Marc Chagall, which covers two periods of the artist’s work, Russian and foreign, over seven decades of his activity.
Year of creation: 2005 | Multimedia film | Language: Russian | Duration: 18:00
The film tells about the events leading to the assassination of Emperor Paul I, the fate of his family members after the tragedy. Numerous documents and artistic monuments of that era are shown.
Year of creation: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program features paintings, drawings and engravings, posters and sculptures created by artists in besieged Leningrad, in Moscow, ready for defense, at the front, in the rear.
Year of creation: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents twelve works by artists of the 20th century, reflecting modern artistic process, from the collection of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, located in the Marble Palace. The program includes biographies of artists, descriptions of works, information about terms and artistic phenomena.
Year of creation: 2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 52:00
The film tells: about female portraits (S.M. Botkina, Z.N. Yusupova, O.K. Orlova, Ida Rubinstein), reflecting changes in Serov’s worldview, in his understanding of painting, etc.
Year of creation: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents more than 200 works by the artist from the collections of the State Russian Museum (paintings, graphics, engravings). Annotations about each work, articles about creativity, biographical information and documentary photographs are published.
Year of creation: 2005 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program talks about religious life pre-revolutionary Petersburg and the history of St. Petersburg churches. The main part is dedicated to the churches of St. Petersburg and is divided by periods of reign from Peter I to Nicholas II. Photographs of temples are accompanied by biographies of architects and artists.
The program includes a tour of the halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace, which houses the main exhibition of the Russian Museum. The program includes views of interiors, paintings, graphics and sculpture from the museum’s collection (646 exhibits), annotations to them and information about the authors of the works.
Year of creation: 2004-2005 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 78:00
Films about an amazing exhibition at the Russian Museum, introducing viewers to paintings that were either extremely rarely exhibited or never left the museum’s storerooms at all due to their large size.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 43:58
The name of the great Russian artist Konstantin Andreevich Somov is inextricably linked with the artistic association “World of Art”. Contemporaries said about Somov that in his works he embodied the shadows of the long past. The artist was a singer of the elegant eighteenth century, revealing to the viewer the mysterious charm of the world of colorful masquerade, powdered wigs and magnificent fireworks.
The program presents I.E. Repin’s painting “The Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901 on the centennial anniversary of its establishment” from the collection of the Russian Museum. The program includes biographical information about all members of the State Council depicted on the canvas.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:57
Each artist or painting has its own secrets, in this film the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev will lift the veil of secrecy. Viewers will learn the secret of the origin of O.A. Kiprensky and his self-portraits, get acquainted with the participants of the Venetsianov school, as well as with the heroes of G.G. Chernetsov’s painting “Parade on Tsaritsyn Meadow.”
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:10
The film is dedicated to the life and work of artist Boris Kustodiev. Filmed based on materials from an exhibition at the Russian Museum, the film makes it possible to refute the prevailing idea of Boris Kustodiev as an artist who painted exclusively magnificent, rosy-cheeked merchant women, a colorful fair and the Russian village with its accordions, gingerbread cookies and samovars. More than 350 works presented at the exhibition, collected from museums from all over Russia, make it possible to most fully and multifacetedly present the enormous creative heritage of Boris Kustodiev, giving a comprehensive idea of his life, the life of his contemporaries and his beloved Russia. The film about a wonderful portrait painter and a bright representative of Russian art at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries is for many a real discovery of this wonderful master.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:37
The film is dedicated to the life and work of artist Boris Kustodiev. Filmed based on materials from an exhibition at the Russian Museum, the film makes it possible to refute the prevailing idea of Boris Kustodiev as an artist who painted exclusively magnificent, rosy-cheeked merchant women, a colorful fair and the Russian village with its accordions, gingerbread cookies and samovars.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:55
The film tells about the artist Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov, whose creativity flourished at the turn of two centuries, an extremely complex time and exceptionally rich in major creative individuals.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:51
The film is dedicated to the life and work of famous Russian artists, brought up in the traditions of the Saratov art school" These are Alexey Bogolyubov, Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Pyotr Utkin and many others, who in their youth received the strongest artistic impressions from contact with the expressive nature of the Volga region.
Year of creation: 2004 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. It will include masterpieces from the collection of the Russian Museum from icons to avant-garde, a computer film about the history of the museum, virtual tour"From icon to avant-garde: four paintings from the collection of the Russian Museum."
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 26:00
The film is based on the materials of the exhibition “Coronation of Paul I and Maria Fedorovna”, opened in the Mikhailovsky Castle of the Russian Museum on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Paul I. The canvas by Martin Ferdinand Quadal represents a unique historical document, being a group portrait of the imperial family and top officials of the state .
The film tells the story of Ilya Repin’s creation of the famous painting “Barge Haulers on the Volga,” whose popularity dates back as many years as the painting itself.
Year of creation: 2004 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 52:00
The film is dedicated to the artists who were part of creative associations 1910-1916 "Jack of Diamonds", "Donkey's Tail" and "Target". Young avant-garde artists who participated in the exhibitions of these associations contrasted their work with the work of symbolist artists.
Year of creation: 2004 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program presents more than 400 works by B.M. Kustodiev from museums, libraries and private collections in Russia. You can read the artist’s biography and see his works; There are chronological and alphabetical indexes.
Year of creation: 2004 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, Finnish
The program includes works by artists from the collections of two museums - the State Russian Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, dedicated to the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala". Contains annotations to works, biographies of artists.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Language: Russian, English, Spanish | Duration: 26:00
Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858) was born into the family of an artist. His father, Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, was a professor at the Academy of Arts, where the entire first half of his son’s life passed. Upon graduating from the Academy, a young man who carefully studied the samples classical art, stored in the Hermitage, the Stroganov Gallery, and other private collections, went to Italy. Everything was there: creative discoveries, joys and sorrows, strange meetings, friendship with N.V. Gogol and inner loneliness. And most importantly, work on the huge canvas “The Appearance of Christ to the People.”
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:51
The first film in a series of programs dedicated to the tercentenary of St. Petersburg. This film presents one unusual day in the life of the Russian Museum. The viewer is treated to a fascinating story from the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Gusev about the history of the appearance of Summer Garden as part of the Russian Museum complex, as well as about the exhibits of the exhibition “St. Petersburg. Portrait of the city and its citizens."
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Language: Russian | Duration: 25:44
The losses suffered by our country and our people during the Great Patriotic War, are truly innumerable. But the collection of the Russian Museum was practically not damaged - not a single exhibit was lost or even damaged. This became possible only thanks to the heroic work of museum employees who rescued, evacuated and preserved artistic values with all their might. The museum's collection continued to grow during the war. The Russian Museum accepted for storage the most valuable works of artists who remained to live and work in besieged Leningrad.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 25:58
Since the second half of the 18th century, relations between St. Petersburg and Italy were not exclusively official and did not consist only of diplomatic missions, delegations and exchanges of gifts between the reigning persons. Close weave of threads family ties between Russia and Italy allows us to establish Interesting Facts, associated with the artists and people depicted in the paintings, customers and intermediaries, as well as with the fate of the works themselves.
Year of creation: 2003 | Russian language | Duration: 25:55
In film we're talking about about works of painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative and applied art from the collection of the Russian Museum and museums of Rome, Naples, Florence, Milan, as well as from private collections in Italy, presented at the Russian Museum exhibition of the same name.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 25:46
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov (1882-1941) - painter, graphic artist. His paintings were destined for a long period of forced oblivion, then emergence from oblivion and recognition, but still Filonov remains the most mysterious and most incomprehensible of the masters of the Russian avant-garde, a lonely and tragic figure in the art of the 20th century.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:24
The sixties of the 19th century were a period of brilliant flowering of Russian realistic art. Russian painting vividly and comprehensively reflected contemporary life: acute social contradictions, poverty, the grief of the working person, unquenchable faith in a better future, and even the emergence of terrorism in Russia, which F. M. Dostoevsky tried to say about in his novel " Demons." All these phenomena were embodied in the paintings of Russian artists F. Vasiliev, N. Ge, I. Kramskoy, G. Myasoedov, V. Pukirev, V. Perov.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:41
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836). An artist who created a gallery of portraits of remarkable people of Russian society of the Romantic era. The beginning of the 19th century is rightly called the “golden age” of Russian painting.
Year of creation: 2003 | Interactive program | Russian language
The program includes more than 400 full-screen reproductions of paintings and graphics from the collection of the State Russian Museum, which represent collective image St. Petersburg to various historical eras
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
This film is a continuation of acquaintance with the collection of the State Russian Museum, housed at the main exhibition in the Mikhailovsky Palace. Particular attention in the film is paid to the decoration of the palace halls, sculpture, folk art products exhibited in the museum halls, as well as other art objects from the storerooms, which are exhibited at numerous exhibitions organized by the Russian Museum.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
Continuation of the story about the history of the portrait, begun in film 1. The viewer is introduced to the history of Russian portrait from the middle of the 19th century, its features, the era of the Wanderers, portrait late XIX century, the beginning of the 20th century, portraits of the first decades of Soviet power, as well as portraits of the totalitarian era of the 60s.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
A film-walk through the Russian Museum, during which the viewer gets acquainted with the first Russian portraits - “parsuns” of Peter the Great’s time, masterpieces of the 18th century, as well as romantic portrait XIX century.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the history of the emergence of the portrait genre, introduces existing types of portrait images, and ways of conveying unique, individual traits of appearance and character.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the history of the landscape genre, its origins and its emergence as an independent genre, and tells about the history of the creation of various paintings.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film talks about the originality of the still life genre, its features, and the history of the development of Russian still life over the past two centuries using the example of works by famous painters.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
During a virtual walk through the exhibition of the Russian Museum, the viewer is told why the paintings are so different from each other, what determines their originality and the uniqueness of the images presented on them, how to understand special language painting.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 52:00
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836) - artist who created a gallery of portraits of remarkable people of Russian society of the Romantic era. One of the first works of Orest Kiprensky is a portrait of Adam Schwalbe (1804). The portrait painted on a wooden board seemed to be the work of a European master of the 17th century.
Year of creation: 2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 52:00
Alexander Ivanov, when starting to work on the canvas, wanted the work to contain universal ideas and be in tune with modernity. Twenty-five years of work on the painting are years of continuous searches, changes, and improvements. In the end, he literally hid behind his huge canvas, afraid of returning to Russia - he was no longer expected there...
Year of creation: 2003 | Interactive program | Language: Russian, English, Chinese, Finnish
The program shows about 400 exhibits from the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum. These are works covering the period from the 12th century. until the 20th century - painting and sculpture.
Year of creation: 2002-2003 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:00
The film tells about the work of the artist Ilya Efimovich Repin on the large-scale painting “Meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901, on the centenary of its establishment.”
Year of creation: 2002 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 26:01
The exhibition at the Russian Museum became a kind of homecoming for the world famous masters Russian art - emigrant artists Natalia Goncharova and Lev Bakst.
Year of creation: 2002 | Video | Russian language | Duration: 25:40
The film by V.A. Gusev is dedicated to the 1860s - one of the most interesting, controversial and extremely important periods in the history of Russia and Russian art. The essence of this time is determined by the pathos of exposure and direct criticism by artists surrounding reality. Extraordinary responsiveness to pressing issues of social existence, intolerance towards evil, sincerity in expressing their ideas, in tune with the sentiments of the Russian artistic intelligentsia of that time, make the art of the “sixties” an extremely significant phenomenon.
The highest decree on the establishment of the “Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III” in the Mikhailovsky Palace of St. Petersburg was signed 120 years ago, on April 13, 1895.
Currently the State Russian Museum is largest museum Russian art in the world. His collection includes 407.5 so-called storage units. In anticipation memorable date the site remembered 10 masterpieces of painting that can be seen in the Russian Museum.
Arkhip Kuindzhi. "Moonlit night on the Dnieper." 1880
River bank. The horizon line runs down. The silvery-greenish light of the moon is reflected in the water. " Moonlight night on the Dnieper" is one of the most famous paintings Arkhip Kuindzhi.
The magic of the landscape captivated Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, who purchased it for a lot of money directly from the artist’s workshop. The prince did not want to part with his favorite painting even during his trip around the world. As a result, his whim almost ruined Kuindzhi’s masterpiece - due to the sea air, the composition of the paint changed, and the landscape began to darken. But, despite this, the picture still has a magical appeal, forcing viewers to peer at it for a long time.
The magic of the landscape captivated Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich. Photo: www.russianlook.com
Karl Bryullov. "The last day of Pompeii". 1830—1833
“The last day of Pompeii became the first day for the Russian brush!” - this is what the poet Evgeny Baratynsky wrote about this picture. A British writer Walter Scott called the painting “unusual, epic.”
The canvas, measuring 465.5x651 cm, was exhibited in Rome and Paris. It was at the disposal of the Academy of Arts thanks to Nicholas I. The painting was presented to him as a gift by the famous philanthropist Anatoly Demidov, and the emperor decided to exhibit it at the Academy, where it could serve as a guide for beginning painters.
It is worth noting that Karl Bryullov depicted himself against the backdrop of a collapsing city. The artist's self-portrait can be seen in the left corner of the painting.
Karl Bryullov depicted himself against the backdrop of a collapsing city. The artist's self-portrait can be seen in the left corner of the painting. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Ilya Repin. "Barge Haulers on the Volga". 1870-1873
The summer of 1870, spent by the artist on the Volga, 15 versts from Samara, had a great influence on the work of Ilya Repin. He begins work on the canvas, in which many later saw philosophical meaning, the embodiment of submission to fate and the strength of the common people.
While among the barge haulers, Ilya Efimovich Repin meets the former priest Kanin, from whom he would later create many sketches for the painting.
“There was something oriental and ancient about him. But the eyes, the eyes! What a depth of gaze, raised to the eyebrows, which also tend to the forehead... And the forehead is a large, smart, intelligent forehead; “He’s not a simpleton,” the master said about him.
“There was something oriental, ancient about him. But the eyes, the eyes!” Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Ilya Repin. "The Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan." 1880-1891
“You are the Turkish devil, the damned devil’s brother and comrade, and the secretary of Luciper himself!” According to legend, this is how the letter began, which the Zaporozhye Cossacks wrote in 1675 in response to the offer of Sultan Mahmud IV to come under his subordination. The well-known plot formed the basis of the famous painting by Ilya Repin.
The well-known plot formed the basis of the famous painting by Ilya Repin. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Victor Vasnetsov. "The Knight at the Crossroads." 1878
The poetic spirit of folk legends is masterfully conveyed in the work of Viktor Vasnetsov. The painting was first presented to viewers in 1878 as part of a traveling exhibition.
The artist worked on the painting for several years. In the first versions, the hero was facing the viewer, but later the composition was changed. The Russian Museum houses a later version of the painting - 1882. The first version from 1878 is in the Serpukhov Historical and Art Museum.
It is worth noting that the plot of “The Knight at the Crossroads” is reproduced on the tombstone of the artist, who is buried at the Vvedensky cemetery.
The artist worked on the painting for several years. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Ivan Aivazovsky. "The Ninth Wave" 1850
Created in 1850, the painting “The Ninth Wave” was acquired by Nicholas I.
The ninth wave, in the minds of sailors, is the most destructive. This is what the shipwrecked heroes have to endure.
Created in 1850, the painting “The Ninth Wave” was acquired by Nicholas I. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Valentin Serov. Portrait of Ida Rubinstein. 1910
The famous dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein inspired many artists: Kees van Dongen, Antonio de la Gandara, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Leon Bakst and Valentin Serov.
The Russian painter, who is considered a master of portraiture, saw her for the first time on the Parisian stage. In 1910 he creates her portrait.
“There is monumentality in her every movement, just a revived archaic bas-relief,” the artist admired her grace.
The famous dancer and actress Ida Rubenstein inspired many artists. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Valentin Serov. The Rape of Europa. 1910
The idea to write “The Rape of Europa” was born to Valentin Serov during a trip to Greece. A visit to the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete made a great impression on him. In 1910, the painting, which was based on the legend of the abduction of Europa, the daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, by Zeus, was completed.
According to some evidence, Serov created six versions of the painting.
The idea to write “The Rape of Europa” was born to Valentin Serov during a trip to Greece. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Boris Kustodiev. Portrait of F.I. Shalyapin. 1922
“I have known many interesting, talented and good people in my life. But if I have ever seen a truly great spirit in a person, it is in Kustodiev,” the famous singer Fyodor Chaliapin wrote about the artist in his autobiographical book “Mask and Soul.”
Work on the painting was carried out in the artist’s apartment. The room where Chaliapin posed for Kustodiev was so small that the picture had to be painted in parts.
The artist’s son later recalled a funny moment of the work. According to him, in order to capture Fyodor Ivanovich’s beloved dog on canvas, he had to resort to a trick: “In order for the pug to stand with its head raised, a cat was placed on the closet, and Chaliapin did everything possible to make the dog look at it.”
The workshop where Chaliapin posed for Kustodiev was so small that the picture had to be painted in parts. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Kazimir Malevich. Black circle. 1923
One of the most famous paintings by the founder of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich, has several options. The first of them, created in 1915, is now kept in a private collection. The second - created by Malevich's students under his leadership - is exhibited in the St. Petersburg Russian Museum.
Experts note that the “Black Circle” for Kazimir Malevich was one of them three main modules of the new plastic system, the style-forming potential of the new plastic idea - Suprematism.
The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg has the world's largest collection of national paintings, which has no equal in breadth and depth of coverage, and is one of the most valuable objects of Russian cultural heritage. The art complex has collected more than 400,000 exhibits of works by Russian masters from the 12th to the 20th centuries: paintings, graphics, sculpture, objects of arts and crafts, numismatics.
On a cozy, shady square nearby, bronze Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin greets us. With a graceful gesture towards the majestic building, it invites you to enter and plunge into the fascinating atmosphere of the art of past centuries and the present century...
Russian Museum: historical background
The founding date of the country's first museum of Russian art is considered to be April 25, 1895, when the decree of Nicholas II was issued on its establishment and location in the Mikhailovsky Palace. The idea of creating a national museum belonged to Alexander III, which was reflected in the name. The 37 halls of the “Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III” opened their doors to visitors on March 7, 1898, presenting the audience with the first collection, formed from storerooms, imperial paintings, private collections and works taken from the palace to.
The choice of building for the museum was not accidental. The Mikhailovsky Palace was purchased by the treasury from the grandchildren of Grand Duke Mikhail who lived abroad. The magnificent creation of the architect Carl Rossi, built in 1825, became the decoration of St. Petersburg, its interior decoration in beauty and luxury it was not inferior to the best palaces in Europe. Evidence of this is the White Hall, the only room preserved in its original form after the palace was rebuilt as a museum. Thought out to the smallest detail, from the arrangement of columns and wall paintings to the arrangement of furniture and ceremonial service, the interior masterpiece was so good that the English monarch George ordered a smaller copy for himself.
This hall hosted famous musical evenings, where the best performers of the era shone: Hector Berlioz, Mikhail Glinka, Franz Liszt, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made his conducting debut. Vasily Zhukovsky and Ivan Krylov were here. The first participant in the concerts, pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, noted in his memoirs that people gathered here best artists who visited St. Petersburg. The first conservatory in Russia owes its opening to the activities of the Russian musical society, which originated in the popular music salon of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Subsequently, the collection of cultural property is replenished through the budget and donations, and after the 1917 revolution - through the “expropriation” of private collections. During the war years, exhibits were evacuated to Perm, and in 1946 the exhibition was restored and reopened to the public.
Since 1954, through the efforts of the Expert Purchasing Commission created at the museum, the principles of its development and targeted replenishment of funds have been formed, and programs of cultural exchange and international cooperation have been developed.
Exposition of the Russian Museum
It is difficult to name a famous Russian artist whose work would not be presented in the Russian Museum. All the best created by Russian painters over 800 years is presented in the art gallery, which numbers more than 15 thousand copies.
In four halls of the first floor of the Mikhailovsky Palace there is a permanent exhibition of ancient Russian icons. Presented are works of the 12th–17th centuries from the artistic centers of Ancient Rus', created in Pskov, Novgorod, Suzdal, Yaroslavl. This is the most valuable part of an extensive collection with a total number of more than five thousand copies. The magnificent collection is one of the most significant in Russia; thanks to its diversity and number, it makes it possible to trace the development of the Russian school of icon painting over the past centuries of its history.
The “Golden Haired Angel” icon is the oldest in the collection. The masterpieces include the iconostasis of the Vladimir Assumption Cathedral, the work of the famous Andrei Rublev, a series of icons from the Ferapontov Monastery, the creation of the remarkable early 16th-century master Dionysius. Of great interest are the works of Simon Ushakov, the main icon painter of the Armory in the 17th century.
Collection of works of Russian fine art art XVIII- the beginning of the 19th century is recognized as the most complete. Among the museum's paintings are paintings famous artists of this period: Ivan Nikitin, Fyodor Rokotov, Alexey Venetsianov, the small canvas “The Appearance of Christ to the People” by Alexey Ivanov and numerous sketches for it, which became the program for many generations of painters. By original plan The dimensions of the painting corresponded to the copy of the Russian Museum. The monumental painting, conceived by the author much later (the work took 40 years to create), is located in the Tretyakov Gallery.
It is impossible to indifferently pass by the intimate female portraits of Vladimir Borovikovsky. They are distinguished by sensitivity in conveying character, a beautifully crafted atmosphere, and are united by the poetic charm of the images. The work of Dmitry Levitsky is the history of Russia in person. Among the works of Orest Kiprensky, the ceremonial portrait of a hussar attracts special attention. According to the official version, this is a portrait of E.V. Davydov, a relative famous poet and the partisan hero Denis Davydov. The intrigue of the picture lies in the fact that from time to time the question arises as to which of them, the heroes of 1812: the poet-partisan or the famous general, is really depicted in the portrait. The characters in the genre scenes of Pavel Fedotov, who is not without reason called the “Gogol of painting”, who managed to destroy the armor of academicism with his paintings of everyday life and pave the way for a new direction, appear completely different.
Karl Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii” invariably arouses interest. The theme was suggested to the artist, who had been looking for a worthy subject for a long time, by his older brother, an architect. The authenticity of the image was achieved through careful study of excavation materials, historical documents, and copying museum exhibits.
The painting was painted in Rome and provided the young painter with great success in Europe, but real triumph awaited him at home. A. S. Pushkin, N. V. Gogol enthusiastically welcomed the work, it became the subject national pride, the poet Evgeny Baratynsky dedicated the following lines to the author:
“...He brought the spoils of peace
Take it with you to your father's canopy.
And there was the “Last Day of Pompeii”
It’s the first day for the Russian brush.”
In the same hall, paintings by one of the most famous Russian marine painters, academician and painter of the Main Naval Staff - Ivan Aivazovsky are exhibited. One of his most popular works, “The Ninth Wave,” is dedicated to the theme of confrontation between people and the elements, is filled with optimism and reflects the events of the author’s biography. It was written a few years after he experienced a storm in the Bay of Biscay, the ship was considered lost in a crushing storm and erroneous reports appeared in the press about the death of a young but already famous Russian artist.
Going up to the second floor, you can see Russian art of the second half of the 19th century. The exhibition introduces the works of the “Itinerants”: Grigory Myasoedov, Ivan Kramskoy, Nikolai Ge, Vasily Perov, Alexey Savrasov...
In May 1870, artists Ilya Repin, Evgeny Makarov and 20-year-old Fyodor Vasiliev set off on a trip along the Volga. Sketches made during a 4-month trip served as the basis for the creation famous paintings which can be seen in the halls of the museum: “Barge Haulers on the Volga” by Repin and the landscape that made Vasiliev famous - “View on the Volga. Barki." Like a shooting star that sparkled and quickly faded away, he passed away early. The famous painting “The Thaw,” which both glorified the artist and became fatal (while working on it, he fell ill with tuberculosis), adorns the Tretyakov exhibition. In the Russian Museum hangs an author's copy, commissioned by the Tsar's court in another color scheme. It was this canvas that was sent, among others, to the London Exhibition in 1872 and received rave reviews.
The most mysterious and mystical painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi, “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper,” is also in the Russian Museum. Its owner Grand Duke Konstantin, who did not want to part with the acquisition, placed the canvas on his yacht and set sail. Unfortunately, the paints did not stand the test of time, dampness and sea air and darkened. Obviously, the first viewers received different impressions from the image they saw, although even today the picture fascinates and amazes.
Russian painting at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries is represented by the works of Isaac Levitan, Mikhail Vrubel, Valentin Serov, as well as the artists of the World of Art: Alexander Benois, Konstantin Korovin, the masters of the Blue Rose and the Jack of Diamonds.
Contemporary art is exhibited in. On the canvases of artists of the late 19th - early 20th centuries - the fantastic “Flying Demon” by Mikhail Vrubel, portraits of Valentin Serov, genre compositions Boris Kustodiev, works by Nicholas Roerich.
Here you can see the leading masters of the early Russian avant-garde. The pride of the collection is the world's largest series of works (100 paintings and 20 drawings) by Kazimir Malevich and the works of Pavel Filonov (about 200 paintings and the same number of drawings).
The museum owns the country's largest collection of sculpture from the 17th - early 20th centuries. Before the revolution, this species was represented by only 184 exhibits; the present collection numbers more than 2 thousand specimens. The best works of the original talents of the innovators of the last century Anna Golubkina, Sergei Konenkov, Alexander Matveev found their place in the museum.
The museum's numismatic collections number more than 70 thousand items. Coins, medals, securities and banknotes, badges, tokens and seals give a complete picture of the history of Russian money and medal craftsmanship.
The engraving collection traces the stages of development of this art in Russia, contains one of the most complete collections of printed graphics, and contains examples of all printing techniques: from classical on wood and metal to computer printing. 18th century masters Alexey Zubov, Evgraf Chemesov, Ivan Bersenev are represented not only in prints, but also in their own forms - copper boards.
The Russian Museum owns a significant collection of decorative and applied arts, it numbers more than 35 thousand items, which includes collections of glass, faience, porcelain, jewelry from precious metals, ceramics, art painting, textiles, furniture, clothing. The pearl of the ancient part of the collection is considered to be the “Kiev Treasure”, which was found in Mikhailo - Golden-Domed Monastery. The largest number of relics are represented by objects of applied art of Moscow from the period of the 14th-17th centuries, among which one can highlight a collection of silverware and wonderful embroidery - whole embroidered iconostases and individual icons decorated with ornaments.
Russian Museum: our days
The Russian Museum is a world-famous museum and park complex, which includes a research institute and a restoration center. The heritage consists not only of art objects, but also historical archival materials. The museum’s extensive library (170 thousand items), existing since 1897, contains about 14.5 thousand rarities. Placed cultural values in six buildings, on the territory of three amazing parks - the Summer Garden, the gardens of the same name of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the Engineering Castle:
The museum stores its main treasures, including the library, in the former princely residence.
Built according to the design of architects V. Bazhenov and Vincenzo Brenna for Paul I, 20 years after the death of the emperor, the building came into the possession of the Engineering School, and in 1994 it completely became part of the Russian Museum. There are permanent exhibitions of sculpture, a portrait gallery, and temporary exhibitions.
Mikhailovsky Castle from the Moika River.
Created according to the design of the great Antonio Rinaldi, the castle was intended for Count Grigory Orlov as a gift from the Empress. By decision of the St. Petersburg City Hall, the building was transferred to the Russian Museum in 1991. Donated in 1994 German collectors a collection of paintings from the second half of the 20th century, called the “Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum,” constitutes the main exhibition of the palace.
Marble Palace.
The former palace of the Stroganov barons (counts), the creation of several architects, including Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, has been a branch of the museum since 1988. The permanent exhibition includes the mineralogical cabinet, an architectural masterpiece that houses a collection of minerals.
View Stroganov Palace from the Moika River.
House of Peter I. “Red Mansions” is the oldest city building in the style of a Swedish wooden house, the country’s first memorial monument-museum, included in the Russian Museum in 2004. Located on Petrovskaya embankment.
Summer Palace of Peter I. The construction dates back to the period 1710-1712, architect Domenico Trezzini, located in the Summer Garden.
The museum has a lecture hall with a varied and interesting program; scientific conferences and seminars dedicated to significant dates are held. Visitors are attracted by thematic vernissages of paintings from the storerooms, as well as displays of masterpieces of art from other museums and private collections. Catalogs of permanent collections and exhibitions are being prepared and published. The system is in effect organized excursions, classes are held with schoolchildren in art studios.
Interactive tour of the Russian Museum
How to use the interactive tour window:
by briefly pressing the left mouse button on any of the white arrows in the tour window, you will move in the corresponding direction (left, right, forward, etc.), by pressing and holding down the left button - rotate the mouse in different directions: you can look around without moving from the spot. When you click on the black square on the right top corner interactive tour window You will be taken to full-screen viewing mode.
1. Russian Museum: the building of the Mikhailovsky Palace (from the main facade).
2. Russian Museum: Garden facade of the Mikhailovsky Palace and Mikhailovsky Garden.
3. Exposition of the Russian Museum in the Mikhailovsky Palace:
Russian Museum: where it is and how to get there
All museum buildings are located in the center and are located at the following addresses:
The main exhibition is presented in the Mikhailovsky Palace on Inzhenernaya Street, 4 and in Benois building on the Griboyedov Canal embankment, 2.
Mikhailovsky Castle – Sadovaya Street, 2;
Stroganov Palace - Nevsky Prospekt, 17;
Marble Palace – Millionnaya Street, 5/1.
You can get there on foot from the Gostiny Dvor and Nevsky Prospekt metro stations.
The last time I was in the Russian Museum was a long time ago, back in school. And now, almost twenty years later, I was ready to go there consciously.
It turned out to be quite difficult for an ordinary Russian person to get into the Russian Museum. And for a completely banal reason: they ran out of numbers in their wardrobe. The entrance was blocked by a strict aunt with a walkie-talkie and only excursion groups and citizens with children were allowed in. After standing for almost an hour and not moving, we took a desperate step - we publicly swore that we wouldn’t even look in the direction of the wardrobe. And, lo and behold, they let us through.
With such an organization, for example, the queue to the Vatican Museums would go around the Vatican. But we are not the Vatican, it’s suddenly cold outside.
To take photographs in the museum, I had to buy a camera separate ticket for the same price as for me - 250 rubles (entrance for foreigners is a hundred rubles more expensive).
I am a person far from art, so for me the main criterion for evaluating any creativity is “like” (beautiful) / “don’t like” (ugly). For example, I absolutely don’t like the picture in the title photo.
I will show what I liked below.
K. Bryullov. The last day of Pompeii. 1833.
A painting that seems to become a documentary chronicle of a historical event. It is huge in size, and if you come close, your gaze rests on the stones of the pavement, covered with ash, scattered things under the feet of the heroes - something that you don’t see in the illustrations. This greatly adds realism to what is happening. When I walked around Pompeii, it was absolutely impossible to get this image out of my head: the red sky, everything was collapsing and figures frozen in horror.
The erupting Vesuvius is balanced by Aivazovsky with many paintings of the sea elements on the opposite wall of the hall.
Russian squadron on the Sevastopol roadstead. 1846.
Relevant. Judging by the museum's exhibition, Crimea was generally a very popular topic for Russian artists.
Wave. 1899.
A very small fragment of a picture with a stormy sea, where a ship is sinking in the corner and sailors on a broken mast are sailing almost off the edge of the canvas without a chance of salvation.
The first rooms with art from the early 19th century are interesting; you can sit there for half a day, fortunately there are sofas. The following 18th-century rooms begin to tire a little with portraits and palace interiors.
Ceiling: 
Trellis: 
Animal fight at a watering hole. Petersburg Trellis Manufactory. 1757.
Mosaic: 
Ust-Rudnitskaya factory M.V. Lomonosov. Portrait of Catherine II. 1762.
Presented to the Empress on the occasion of her coronation.
The last halls of the floor are occupied by ancient Russian art, that is, iconography: 
It seems to me that this is where M. Larionov drew his inspiration.
Peter's head - Bronze Horseman on the Grand Staircase.
V. Perov. Hunters at rest. 1877.
Repeat the picture. The first version hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery.
I. Shishkin. Snitch-grass. Pargolovo. 1885.
Surprisingly - a weed against the backdrop of a crooked fence, and hanging in the Russian Museum. Joke.
A. Savrasov. Thaw. Yaroslavl. 1874.
It's time to go to Yaroslavl - there is a gap in my geography.
A little about foreign countries in large-scale canvases: 
V. Smirnov. Death of Nero. 1888.
The women came to pick up the corpse of the suicidal emperor. The red wall is like the main character.
G. Semiradsky. Phryne at the festival of Poseidon at Eleusis. 1889.
About a woman who imagines herself to be a goddess, and for this reason publicly undressed. A very sunny and positive picture.
V. Surikov: 
Old gardener. 1882.
About unwashed Russia.
View of the monument to Peter I on Senate Square in St. Petersburg. 1870.
About the capital.
Suvorov's crossing of the Alps. 1899.
The lighting in some halls of the museum is organized in a unique way: the paintings glare in them so that they are simply not visible at all. You have to study it in fragments, changing your angle of view.
Taking the snowy town and the river, between which the colonnade of the Round Hall of the Mariinsky Palace can be seen.
Grandiose paintings by I. Repin: 
A ceremonial meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901 in honor of the centenary of its establishment. 1903.
81 people are depicted, each of whom posed individually. How did he manage to arrange the composition in such a way that no one would fall out? Nicholas II sits under a portrait of Nicholas II by Repin. Recursion.
Opposite the painting hangs another portrait of Nicholas: 
Portrait of Nicholas II. 1896.
Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan. 1891.
On right Belarusian. 1892, left Portrait of S. M. Dragomirova. 1889.
Barge Haulers on the Volga. 1873.
A fragment directly with barge haulers - very colorful characters.
To conclude Repin's theme: 
Black woman. 1876.
On a turf bench. 1876.
A. Kuindzhi: 
Sea. Crimea. 1908.
Night. 1908.
Duma on the fate of Russia: 
M. Antokolsky. Mephistopheles. 1883.
Mower: 
G. Myasoedov. Time of suffering(Mowers). 1887. Fragment.
It’s always interesting to look at the details of paintings where the plot is a scene from real life in the distant and not so distant past, some kind of action is taking place, there are a lot of people:
K. Savitsky. To war. 1888.
Seeing off the soldiers to the Bulgarians who are victorious for us Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878.
K. Makovsky. Transfer of the sacred carpet to Cairo. 1876.
About the meeting of pilgrims from the Hajj. A tourist's impressions of visiting Egypt were clearly more interesting before.
V. Polenov. Christ and the sinner. 1888. Fragment with a sinner and a donkey. The donkey seems to be telling us: “Now they will stone them again as much as possible.”
Finishing the oriental theme: 
V. Vereshchagin. At the door of the mosque. 1873.
Photographic quality pattern on the door. Considering that the picture is practically life-size, I involuntarily wanted to touch it to see if it was made of wood. The handprint on the wall attracts attention. By the way, the door is visible a little through the right figure.
Another version of thoughts about the fate of Russia from Antokolsky: 
Ivan groznyj. 1871.
For some reason, next to the souvenir shop.
Let's move a little away from painting.
Folk art: 
Ladle. 1753.
Patchwork bedspread.
"Mossies". Beginning of the twentieth century.
Gloomy Vyatka peasant toys.
Valance. End of the 18th century
Intricate pattern.
Imperial/State/Leningrad Porcelain Factory: 
A lion. 1911.
Does he really look like Lenin? What is he doing with his right front paw...
"He who works, eats."
The propaganda china from the 1920s is simply beautiful.
Service with Suprematist ornaments. 1932.
Let's continue about the paintings.
The 20th century begins: 
I. Levitan. Lake. Rus. 1900. Fragment.
The artist's last, unfinished painting.
K. Yuon. Spring sunny day. Sergiev Posad. 1910.
M. Vrubel. Bogatyr. 1898.
Fragment with a bird.
M. Nesterov. Venerable Sergius Radonezh. 1899.
V. Serov. Bathing the Horse. 1905.
B. Kustodiev. Merchant's wife having tea. 1918.
N. Goncharova. Cyclist. 1913.
P. Filonov. Spring formula and active forces. 1928.
A small fragment.
V. Kuptsov. ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky". 1934.
Over Strelka V.O., where he never flew.
The largest plane in the world, just built in 1934, will crash a year later over Moscow during a demonstration flight with members of the families of aircraft manufacturers. And six months later Kuptsov would commit suicide.
A. Samokhvalov. Conductress. 1928.
Soviet Russia as it is.
They were taking selfies long before it became mainstream: 
K. Petrov-Vodkin. Self-portrait. 1927.
L. Kirillova. Self-portrait. 1974.
Crimea again: 
A. Deineka. Defense of Sevastopol. 1942.
And this is about my time: 
V. Ovchinnikov. Dovecote. 1979.
At all good museum. I like it.
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