Exhibitions of the M. V. Nesterov Bashkir State Art Museum

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The museum is located in the historic part of the city together with the grounds of a former garden. The mansion is an example of a Russian country estate of the early 20th century. Before the Revolution the estate belonged to the merchant and timber industrialist M. A. Laptev (1845–1919); the mansion was built in 1913 in the Art Nouveau style to a design by the well-known Samara architect and graduate of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts A. A. Shcherbachyov (1858–1912). The classical art collection is housed in the mansion, while exhibitions are held in the museum's new building, completed in 2014. The origin of the collection and the founding of the museum are connected with M. V. Nesterov's 1913 donation. Wishing to "contribute to the artistic education of his fellow townspeople," the artist donated to his native city a collection of Russian painting and graphics from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century: 102 works, including paintings and graphic sheets by I. E. Repin, I. I. Shishkin, N. A. Yaroshenko, V. D. Polenov, V. E. Makovsky, I. I. Levitan, K. A. Korovin, A. Ya. Golovin, A. N. Benois, N. K. Roerich and other outstanding masters.