Bashkir State Art Museum named after M. V. Nesterov

About museum

The Bashkir State Art Museum named after M. V. Nesterov is one of the oldest and largest museums in Russia. It was opened in January 1920 in an early 20th-century architectural monument — the former mansion of the merchant and timber industrialist M. A. Laptev. The idea to create the museum and the beginning of its collection belong to a native of Ufa, the outstanding Russian painter, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR and Academician of Painting Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov. In 1913 he donated to his native city his collection of works of Russian painting and graphic art from the second half of the 19th — the early 20th centuries, including works by Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Vasily Polenov, Vasily Makovsky, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Korovin, Aleksandr Golovin, Alexandre Benois and other artists. The museum's collection also includes works by D. D. Burliuk (the 'father of Russian Futurism'), unique examples of Old Russian art, Russian art of the 18th — early 20th centuries, Western European art of the 16th–19th centuries, and Russian decorative and applied arts.