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The Russian School of Painting (Mid-Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries)

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Ellora
Ellora
1938
Evdokia Fedotova, Chairwoman of the Second Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers
Evdokia Fedotova, Chairwoman of the Second Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers
1935–1938
Girl in the Forest
Girl in the Forest
1938
Himalayas (Albescent Mountaintops)
Himalayas (Albescent Mountaintops)
1938
Himalayas (Blue Mountain - tops at Dawn)
Himalayas (Blue Mountain - tops at Dawn)
1938
Himalayas (Ice-Covered Slopes)
Himalayas (Ice-Covered Slopes)
1938
Himalayas (Mountaintops Illuminated by the Sun)
Himalayas (Mountaintops Illuminated by the Sun)
1938
Himalayas (Towering Mountaintops)
Himalayas (Towering Mountaintops)
1938
Kangchenjunga (Azure Sky Above the Mountaintops)
Kangchenjunga (Azure Sky Above the Mountaintops)
1938
Krishna
Krishna
1938
Landscape with a Red Tree (Running)
Landscape with a Red Tree (Running)
1938
Listening to the News
Listening to the News
1938
On Green Banks
On Green Banks
1938
Portrait of Isaac Brodsky
Portrait of Isaac Brodsky
1938
Portrait of Sergei Kirov
Portrait of Sergei Kirov
1937–1938
The Prophet (Mohammed on Mount Hira)
The Prophet (Mohammed on Mount Hira)
1938
Winter-Field. Vyatka
Winter-Field. Vyatka
1938
В. И. Ленин и И. В. Сталин в Горках в 1923 году
В. И. Ленин и И. В. Сталин в Горках в 1923 году
1938
Старый рабочий. (Путиловец.)
Старый рабочий. (Путиловец.)
1938
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Total: 208
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Steppe during the Day
Steppe during the Day
1852
At the wedding of Grand Prince Vassily II Tyomniy in 1433, Grand Princess Sophia Tears Down the Belt That Once Belonged to Dmitry Donskoy
At the wedding of Grand Prince Vassily II Tyomniy in 1433, Grand Princess Sophia Tears Down the Belt That Once Belonged to Dmitry Donskoy
Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum
Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum
1862
The Last Supper
The Last Supper
1863
Monastic Refectory
Monastic Refectory
1865–76
Palm Sunday in Moscow Under Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. Procession of the Patriarch on a Donkey
Palm Sunday in Moscow Under Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. Procession of the Patriarch on a Donkey
After Rain. Country Track
After Rain. Country Track
Late l860s
Countryside
Countryside
Fête during Shrovetide on Admiralty Square in St Petersburg
Fête during Shrovetide on Admiralty Square in St Petersburg
1869
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Barge Haulers on the Volga
1870–1873
View of the Volga. Barques
View of the Volga. Barques
1870
Thaw
The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
1871
Закат над болотом
Закат над болотом
Разлив Волги под Ярославлем
Разлив Волги под Ярославлем
Marsh in a Forest. Autumn
Marsh in a Forest. Autumn
1872
Peter I (the Great) Interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich in Peterhof
Peter I (the Great) Interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich in Peterhof
1872
 Вид на Московский Кремль. Весна
Вид на Московский Кремль. Весна
At the Doors of a Mosque
At the Doors of a Mosque
Перед венцом
Перед венцом
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Even when it first opened back in 1898, the Russian Museum owned many canvases painted by such masters of the second half of the nineteenth century as Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Konstantin Makovsky, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov and Vasily Surikov. Although the selection of works before the revolution was often hampered by the conservative tastes of museum officialdom, the collection nevertheless grew in breadth thanks to the efforts of Alexander Benois, Albert Benois, Igor Grabar and Pyotr Neradovsky.

Placing great stress on acquiring works by contemporary artists, the Russian Museum often purchased paintings directly from exhibitions. Works were acquired from the posthumous shows of the works of Isaac Levitan (1901) and Vasily Vereschagin (1905). Other sources were the Travelling Art Exhibitions (Stanislaw Zukowski, Nikolai Kasatkin, Isaac Levitan and Vladimir Makovsky), New Union of Artists (Boris Kustodiev and Nikolai Fokin) and artist's studios (Alexander Golovin and Mikhail Nesterov).

In 1918, the Russian Museum inherited the collection of Prince Vladimir Argutinsky-Dolgorukov, including studies by Mikhail Vrubel and paintings by Konstantin Somov. The Yevgeny Tereschenko collection contained many works by fin-de-siecle artists, among them Mikhail Vrubel's Bogatyr and Six-Winged Seraph. The Alexander Korovin collection included paintings by Valentin Serov, Philipp Malyavin, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin and members of the World of Art, Blue Rose and the Jack of Diamonds.

In 1926, the Russian Museum opened a Department of Modern Art, embracing all twentieth-century movements and associations. The curators were particularly interested in the members of such groups as the Jack of Diamonds, Blue Rose and the Union of Youth. Many canvases were acquired directly from the artists. The Russian Museum inherited over three-hundred canvases -- works by Wassily Kandinsky, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Robert Falk, Pavel Filonov and Marc Chagall -- when the Institute of Artistic Culture was closed down in 1926. Works by Natalia Goncharova and Aristarkh Lentulov were transferred from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

The collection of the painting of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continued to grow in the 1930s. Ilya Repin's Centennial Sitting of the State Council was acquired from the Museum of the Revolution. The Tretyakov Gallery donated a number of canvases by masters not fully represented in the Russian Museum, including Vasily Perov's Lonely Guitarist and Portrait of Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nevrev's Self-Portrait, Mikhail Vrubel's Flying Demon and Philipp Malyavin's Peasant Women. The Department of Modern Art attempted to reflect the contemporary art process, exhibiting the achievements of Soviet art. In 1932, the Russian Museum held an anniversary exhibition entitled Artists of the RSFSR Over Fifteen Years. More than two thousand works by over three hundred artists were shown in thirty-five rooms. The museum acquired many paintings directly from the exhibition.

The Russian Museum continued to collect works by both contemporary masters and artists who had begun their careers before the revolution. The museum acquired Isaac Brodsky'sParade, Fyodor Bogorodsky's Homeless Waifs, landscapes and portraits by Sergei Gerasimov and canvases by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Samokhvalov. The Department of Modern Art curated such temporary shows as the First Exhibition of Leningrad Artists (1935). Several of the exhibits were acquired for the museum collection, including Arkady Rylov'sLenin in Razliv, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Alarm. 1919 and Vasily Kuptsov's Maxim Gorky ANT-20.

One of the most important events in the post-war history of the Russian Museum was the opening of a permanent exhibition of Soviet art in the Benois Wing. Such works of the 1940's and 1950's as Alexander Deineka's The Defence of Sevastopole, the Kukryniksy trio's Nazis Retreating from Novgorod, Sergei Gerasimov's A Partisan's Mother and Arkady Plastov's A Fascist Flew Past celebrated the victory over Germany in the Second World War. Some of the most outstanding works of the 1960's and 1970's were painted by Helium Korzhev, Victor Ivanov, Pyotr Ossovsky, Pavel Nikonov, Victor Popkov, Yevsei Moiseyenko, Boris Ugarov and Pyotr Fomin.


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