“Treasures of Russian museums”. The most popular exhibition in 2018 going to the art tour of the country

The exhibition “Treasures of Museums of Russia”, consisting of 150 paintings, will visit Kaliningrad, Tyumen, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Astrakhan, Perm, Voronezh from June to November of the current year.

Specialized art sites in these cities will be open for free to get acquainted with the works of key Russian artists. Among them are F. Rokotov, V. Borovikovsky, I. Repin, V. Serov, I. Kramskoy, I. Aivazovsky, I. Levitan, A. Kuindzhi, I. Bilibin, Yu. Pimenov, I. Shishkin, M. Vrubel , I. Grabar, B. Kustodiev, N. Goncharova and others, including those who had not previously left their regions or were completely hidden in storage.

In 2018, the exhibition “Treasures of Russian Museums” was triumphantly held at the Moscow Manezh Central Exhibition Hall. Her attendance reached the first position in the ranking among 50 competing exhibitions and a record high of 250,000 visitors in 19 days.

Chronologically, the exhibition collection “Treasures of Russian Museums” covers the period from the 17th to the second half of the 20th century and includes works by key Russian artists (from icon to social realism), collected from various parts of the country.

The curatorial group of the project, headed by ZI I. Tregulova, general director of the Tretyakov Gallery and which included gallery employees, as well as specialists from the ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center and experts from the Patriarchal Council on Culture, presented the history of Russian art in all its diversity.

The main theme of the exhibition was the indestructible unity of the cultural space of the country.

Preparation for the exhibition was a continuation of the tremendous work of curators to identify the "pearls" of regional collections. The exhibition clearly demonstrates the artistic treasures of the Russian province. Masterpieces have passed special training and scientific description.

The exhibition presents all genres of painting: portrait (front, provincial), landscape (from north to south of Russia), historical paintings and genre scenes. The variety of names and works give visitors the opportunity to follow the phased development of national art.

In the years 2019-2020, the cycle of expositions is planned to continue. There will be exhibitions devoted to Russian and Western European art.

The exhibition was prepared by the Patriarchal Council for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.