An exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Aivazovsky opened in St. Petersburg in the Russian Museum

The exhibition "Ivan Aivazovsky. By the 200-th anniversary" opened in the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

The exhibition features 54 paintings of the artist, which are in the Russian Museum collection. Also in the anniversary exhibition includes paintings from the "Peterhof" Museum-Reserve meeting Museum "Tsarskoye Selo", the Central Naval Museum and the Sea Cadet Corps. A special section of the exhibition, which will showcase 200 works make up the memorial and photographs.

"The basis of the exhibition will be a well-known works and unfamiliar viewers of Aivazovsky from private collections, as well as different surroundings, constituting the context of the activities of Aivazovsky as a painter of the Naval Staff. According to the composition, design and semantic accents exhibition at the Russian Museum will differ significantly from the exposure opened in July and November at the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow ", - stated in the message of the museum.

Exhibition for the 200th anniversary of his birth will last until March 10, 2017.

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) - the world-famous Russian marine painter, one of the most successful Russian artists of the XIX century, whose works are the decoration of the museum collections in Russia and abroad, and enjoyed the constant attention and success with the audience.

Russian Museum - the world's largest museum of Russian art. This is the first Russian state museum of Russian fine art. It was inaugurated in March 1898. Today the Russian Museum - a unique repository of artistic treasures, a famous restoration center, an authoritative research institute, one of the largest centers of cultural and educational work, scientific and methodological center of art museums of Russia, who oversees the work of 260 mills museums. The museum's collection includes about 400 thousand exhibits and covers all historical periods and trends in the development of Russian art, the basic types and genres, trends and schools with the X century.