Exhibition «Spanish Collection. From the Collections of Russian Museums»
Where: Moscow, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
When: until February 4, 2024; ticket prices 450–650 rubles
«Spanish Collection. From the Collections of Russian Museums» is a large-scale project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, organized in cooperation with the State Hermitage. For the first time since 1937, the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum will show more than 50 works by great Spanish painters of the 16th–19th centuries, including El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jusepe de Ribera, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco Goya, Mariano Fortuny, Joaquín Sorolla, and Ignacio Zuloaga. The exposition will also include decorative and applied arts, sculpture, and works on paper from the Pushkin Museum's collection. The aim of the exhibition is to show the evolution of Spanish painting from Mannerism to Impressionism, and to present the history of collecting and the presence of Spanish artworks in Russia.
Exhibition «Dostoevsky. Life and Work: Pro et contra»
Where: St. Petersburg, the F. M. Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum
Permanent exhibition; ticket prices 150–300 rubles
At the Dostoevsky Museum, a literary exposition 'Dostoevsky. Life and Work: Pro et contra' opened for the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth and the 50th anniversary of the museum. The first hall is devoted to Dostoevsky's life and work from his birth until 1864, a turning point preceding the creation of the novels of the Great five‑book cycle. The second hall covers the years 1864–1881, exceptional for the creative intensity in the writer's life: here the focus is less biographical and more on creative material, with primary attention given to the five novels 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'Demons', 'The Adolescent', 'The Brothers Karamazov' and the journalistic work 'A Writer's Diary'. The exposition is supplemented by electronic resources and video materials — programs 'Dostoevsky's Petersburg' (addresses of Dostoevsky and his characters), 'Dostoevsky's Foreign Trips', 'The Image of Dostoevsky' in photography, painting, graphics, and sculpture. An audio guide is available in Russian and several foreign languages. The exhibition is based on thorough scholarly and documentary foundations combined with vivid visual images to ensure maximum immersion in the presented material. It uses exhibits from the Dostoevsky Museum's collections, as well as reproductions of images and documents provided by other museums, archives, and research centers.
Exhibition «Strolling Through Old Nizhny...»
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum | Manege
When: from October 28, 2023 to March 24, 2024; ticket prices 150–300 rubles
In the exhibition visitors will take a walk through Nizhny Novgorod as it was at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. Visitors will be accompanied on this journey by Tatyana Pavlovna Vinogradova — a well-known teacher, local historian, professor at the UNESCO department of NNSAGU, an honorary citizen of Nizhny Novgorod, author of more than two hundred publications about Nizhny Novgorod and the book 'Strolling Through Old Nizhny…', which inspired the creation of the exhibition. Book 'routes' formed the basis of the exposition. Visitors will be transported into the atmosphere of a past era, will meet famous residents of Nizhny, will be able to wander along old streets and feel the unique charm of Old Nizhny, and will see not only rare archival photo and video materials but also real objects that once belonged to Nizhny Novgorod residents (more than 100 exhibits). For example, the church icon 'The Miracle of St. George over the Serpent' from the destroyed St. George Church, and paintings that belonged to Nizhny Novgorod merchants Sirotkin, Kamensky, Rukavishnikov and others.
Exhibition «Nazib Zhiganov's Galaxy»
Where: Kazan, National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
When: from January 27 to February 12, 2024; ticket price from 190 rubles
Visitors will be able to learn about the significance of the composer Nazib Zhiganov — the founder of Tatar academic music — through museum items connected with people from his close circle. Musicians, writers, actors, artists, politicians presented Zhiganov with commemorative gifts. The exhibition consists of these gifts — books and musical editions autographed by authors, works of fine art, personal belongings — and is supplemented by rare photographs.
Exhibition «Ivan Shishkin»
Where: Vladivostok, Primorsky State Art Gallery
When: from November 25, 2023 to March 10, 2024; ticket price from 300 rubles
Ivan Shishkin is a well-known figure in Russian landscape painting. The artist is widely regarded by the general public as one of Russia's greatest national painters, a master whose works most fully convey feeling and emotional rapture. For the beauty of his native land and forests, the plains and fields — essential to any understanding of Russia — contemporaries hailed Ivan Shishkin as the 'bogatyr of the Russian forest' and a people's artist. In tribute to his talent, the exhibition will present more than 71 paintings and 35 graphic works from 10 museums across Russia.
