Main exhibition of the B. M. Kustodiev House Museum

About exhibition

The museum was opened in 2002 in the former house of the merchant Moiseyev, a monument of urban architecture from the late 19th – early 20th century. The museum's halls host an exhibition that provides an insight into the life and work of B. M. Kustodiev — an Astrakhan native and an artist of international renown. The museum displays 190 of his works, including more than 100 graphic sheets, paintings, sculptures, as well as memorial items and documents of the artist and his family. The main exhibition comprises six halls: an entrance hall, the P. A. Vlasov Hall (paintings, graphics, documents, photographs), two graphic art halls, the B. M. Kustodiev painting hall, and a memorial hall. Particularly notable are photographs from the family's personal archive, donated to the museum by the artist's granddaughter, the well-known Russian art historian T. K. Kustodieva.