Exhibition of the Oryol Museum of Fine Arts

About exhibition

The exhibition presents visitors with works of painting, sculpture, graphic art and decorative art by Russian and foreign masters of the 17th-20th centuries from the museum's collections. Among them, the most significant are the imperial and private collections of the noble estates of the Oryol region, which belonged to Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, the Kurakin princes, the Komarovsky counts, and members of prominent noble families — the Novosiltsevs, Chicherins, Naryshkins, Stakhovichs, Skoropadskys and others. Among the portraits from the Kurakin collection, the most valuable are those gifted by members of the imperial family: 'Portrait of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich as a child with a gun', 'Portrait of Emperor Peter III', 'Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna', and a marble bust of Emperor Nicholas I. Genre works by academicians and the Peredvizhniki (the Itinerants) are also noteworthy. A separate hall is devoted to Russian icon painting of the 17th-19th centuries.