Exhibition "Russian and Western European Art from the 16th to the Early 20th Century"

About exhibition

The core of the collection is the Uvarov counts' assemblage, transferred to the museum in 1918 from their Karacharovo estate. Aleksey Sergeyevich and Praskovya Sergeyevna Uvarov, renowned Russian scholar-archaeologists, were great connoisseurs and admirers of art, which determined the composition of their family collection. The exhibition opens with a series of family portraits of P. Uvarova, S. Uvarov, and M. Naryshkina. Western European painting is represented by works by D. Tiepolo, L. Quaglio, A. Eugène, and D. Teniers. Russian art is represented by works by K. Bryullov and A. Arkhipov, I. Shishkin and V. Polenov, A. Savrasov and artists who trained in his studio. The gallery interiors feature furniture of the 18th–19th centuries in the Baroque, Rococo, and Russian Jacobean styles. Display cases contain glass and crystal tableware of Western and Russian manufacture from the 18th–19th centuries. Hard-of-hearing visitors can use an audio guide equipped with an induction loop or a video guide in Russian Sign Language. On public holidays the opening hours may change. Up-to-date information is available on the museum's website in the "News" section.