Exhibition of the Rzhevsky Brothers' Collection

About exhibition

The collection of brothers Yakov and Iosif Rzhevsky, donated to the Russian Museum in 1998, comprises 503 works, half of which are paintings and works on paper from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century. These include works by Ivan Aivazovsky, Nikolai Dubovskoy, Stanislav Zhukovsky, Boris Kustodiev, Ilya Mashkov, Vladimir Lebedev, Ivan Bilibin, Arkady Rylov and many other Russian and Soviet artists. Furniture, longcase and mantel clocks from Western Europe and Russia of the 18th-19th centuries occupy a special place in the Rzhevskys' collection.