Exhibition "Yaroslavl: Yesterday and Today"

About exhibition

The exhibition presents paintings by Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Mikhaylovich Korovin, showing historical and contemporary views of the city of Yaroslavl and allowing viewers to trace changes in the city's architectural appearance and the image of its citizens characteristic of each era. The artist not only depicted specific places in Yaroslavl preserved in old photographs, but also created panoramas of the city recognizable today, populated them with historical figures, and achieved the highest degree of historical accuracy. In search of images of the "old" Yaroslavl, the author worked not only with photographs from the turn of the 19th–20th centuries but also used materials from German aerial photography of the early 1940s, which make it possible to examine the city's building layout. The series "Old Yaroslavl" is based on the idea of caring for the city and the necessity of valuing what has survived to the present day. The artist celebrates the beauty of his native city, where he lived all his life, learned the fundamentals of painting, and for many years found inspiration. The exhibition features several dozen works executed in tempera on cardboard. Admission is by ticket to the exhibition "The Yaroslavl Kuznetsovs and the House on the Volzhskaya Embankment"; the exhibition is available via the "Pushkin Card".