Exhibition "Russian Art of the 18th–19th Centuries" — "The visible features of days past stir my soul…"

About exhibition

The works offer an overview of Russian culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The exhibition traces all the major stages in the development of secular realist painting, beginning with a parsunа of Ataman Yermak from the early 18th century. Paintings of the second half of the 18th century are represented by portraits of the ruling figures of the time. One of the most popular portraitists is the painter A. P. Antropov. Among the landscape works, notable canvases include "View of Constantinople, Pera and Scutari" by M. N. Vorobyov, "Landscape with a Gorge" by N. G. Chernetsov, and "Moonlit Night" by I. K. Aivazovsky. The museum's pride lies in the paintings of Russian art from the second half of the 19th century by Peredvizhniki painters I. N. Kramskoy, V. I. Surikov, I. E. Repin, K. E. Makovsky, and M. P. Klodt. The landscape genre is represented by canvases by I. I. Levitan, A. K. Savrasov, A. M. Vasnetsov, and I. I. Krylov. The exhibition is complemented by works of sculpture and porcelain.