Permanent exhibition 'Russian Style. From Historicism to Modernism'

About exhibition

When and where did the first matryoshka appear? Why did Albert Benois call Vrubel's panel monstrous and what reply came from Savva Mamontov? Who are Volga Svyatoslavovich and Mikula Selyaninovich? Into which familiar objects can the famous armchair by Vasily Shutov, "Slow and Steady Goes Further", be disassembled? The carefully conceived, informative, and captivating exhibition answers these and many other questions, sending the viewer 200 years back to the origins of national art, passing through the era of historicism and the neo-Russian style that permeated all spheres of Russia's artistic and private life, and leading to modernism.