Exhibition 'Russian and Soviet Art of the 18th–20th Centuries'

About exhibition

A unique exhibition of Russian art is presented on the museum's first floor and occupies 13 halls. The modern history of Russian engraving began in the Petrine era, with the arrival in Russia of the Dutch engraver Adrian Shkhonobek, founder of an engraving workshop. The exhibition displays engraved sheets by the first professional Russian engravers Alexei Zubov, Ivan Sokolov, Evgraf Chemesov and Kozma Chesky. Also shown are masterpieces of burin engraving by Nikolai Utkin, an etching by Orest Kiprensky and an ink drawing by Fyodor Tolstoy, as well as lithographed compositions by Alexander Orlovsky, Mikhail Zatsepin and Pyotr Borel. You can see engravings by the great Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers) Alexei Savrasov, Isaac Levitan, Nikolai Ge, Ivan Shishkin and Vasily Polenov. A particular pride of the museum are the turn-of-the-century (late 19th–early 20th century) engravings by Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Anna Ostroumova‑Lebedeva, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Sergei Sudeikin, and a pencil portrait of a woman by Filipp Malyavin.