Vernissages
Annually the Russian Museum organises dozens of exhibitions, which exhibit about 5,000 works from their own collection, as well as from collections of other museums and private collections. The exhibitions generate a great deal of interest. The exhibitions are accompanied by publications and multimedia programs. However access to these materials is limited.
The section “Vernissages in the Russian Museum” enables users to explore virtually the exhibition’s rooms, and get acquainted with the large exhibitions of the Russian Museum.
Current
The anniversary exhibition of the ‘Great Carl’ shows about 160 paintings and 200–250 watercolours and drawings by the artist. The main and best-known Brullov’s work — the grand painting The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) — is a gem of the collection of the State Russian Museum. This year it underwent a comprehensive restoration to become a key exhibit at the monographic exhibition. Nevertheless, “Karl the Great” definitely cannot be called a master of one painting, since he created a variety of portraits, genre paintings, and works on historical and religious subjects.
The exhibition of drawings Line. Stroke. Spot in the Russian Museum refers to the classic pages of history and the works that make the pride of the museum’s collection. The exhibition features not only graphic works, but also works that present line and stroke in unexpected materials.
«Павел I. Эпоха, искусство, книги» – мультиформатный выставочный проект, приуроченный к 270-летию со дня рождения императора Павла I и созданный на основе собраний Русского музея и Библиотеки иностранной литературы.
The exhibition “He Conquered Both Time and Space...” is timed to the 225th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin’s birth. The museum rich depositories enable to characterize the oeuvre of the great writer most fully and diversely and to reconstruct the cultural and historical background, which witnessed the formation and heyday of Pushkin’s unique talent. The show is dedicated to the poet’s characters, contemporaries and descendants.
Past Exhibitions
The State Russian Museum and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus open the unprecedented exhibition Russia and Belarus: Crossed Destinies. The Marble Palace presents works by Belarusian artists who graduated from Russian art schools and whose art became the world heritage.
The exhibition brings together about 100 works of painting, graphic and applied arts on the Cossack theme from the collection of the Russian Museum. It includes portraits, landscapes and works on historical subjects.
The exhibition features more than 50 paintings and works of graphic art from the collections of the State Russian Museum, the Hermitage Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre, and the Tver Regional Art Gallery. In addition to Soroka’s works, the public will see paintings by his contemporaries from the Venetsianov circle: Fyodor Slavyansky, Lavr Plakhov and Mikhail Erassi.
The exhibition is devoted to the issues of transmitting and receiving information, its reliability and deceptiveness. The artists are more interested not in the technological aspects of communication processes but rather in humanistic ones. All the works are united by the motif of tidings – news – messages.
The exhibition is unique, both in the themes it explores and in the works it presents. The exhibition shows more than 200 works of painting, numismatics, graphic, decorative and applied arts from the collection of the Russian Museum. Portraits of merchants are presented in all their diversity.
This exhibition, unique in its scale, covers the period from the death of Peter the Great to the accession to the throne of his daughter Elizabeth Petrovna (1725–1742).
The Russian Museum presents a retrospective of Olga Rozanova’s works as a one-woman show. The exhibition features about 50 paintings and more than 100 graphic works, which illustrate all periods of Olga Rozanova’s oeuvre.
Ivan Vishnyakov is one of the leading artist of the 18th century, portraitist, mural painter, restorer and teacher. He was a talented leader and contributor to all the painting works in St Petersburg, Moscow and the court residences.
The Drawings and Watercolours by the Wanderers exhibition acquaints viewers with graphic works created by the founders of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870–1923), as well as by artists of the younger generation.
Mstislav Farmakovsky (1873–1946) was an artist and chief curator at the State Russian Museum. The exhibition, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of his birth, opens up the art of this brilliant master of the Silver Age for the first time ever and pays tribute to the memory of the Russian Museum’s outstanding employee.
The jubilee exhibition is dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the outstanding Russian master Anna Semyonovna Golubkina. Her works are shown at the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum in the Benois Wing and in two open funds of sculpture in St Michael’s Castle.
Unique in its scope and diversity of genres, the exhibition is dedicated to the heroic feat of Leningrad defenders and residents during the siege. The exhibition includes over 200 works of painting, graphic art and sculpture, mainly created in the besieged Leningrad and shown for the first time. Among them are works by Vyacheslav Pakulin, Alexei Pakhomov, Yaroslav Nikolayev, Alexander Rusakov, Vasily Kuchumov and other outstanding masters of Soviet art.
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