"Masterpieces of the Moscow Pushkiniana" in the Peter and Paul fortress
ARTinvestment.RU   27 мая 2016

In such quantity and such treasures from its collection of the Moscow Pushkin Museum brings to St.-Петербург for the first time

the State Museum of history St.-Петербурга,
27 may — on August 14 2016
St.-Петербург, Peter and Paul fortress

At the State Museum of history St.-Петербурга, in the territory of the Peter and Paul fortress, on may 27, will open the exhibition "Masterpieces of the Moscow Pushkiniana" from the collection of the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin. The exhibition gives Petersburgers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the collection of the Moscow Pushkin Museum.

More than 150 valuable items from its collection were taken to the Northern capital, the Moscow Museum of the great poet.

brought To St. Petersburg of works of fine and decorative-прикладного art in the first half of the XIX century, now kept in the collection of the State Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the works of the artists V. Tropinin, Gy. Ozerov, J. Streshnevo, Makarova, F. Alekseev, V. Sadovnikov, Molinari, V. Knolle, S. Tonchi, F. Bruni, N. Goncharova and other famous painters. Among the exhibits there are multiple lifetime portraits of A. S. Pushkin, including the only known portrait of him in early childhood, at the age of 2-3 years, mantel clocks "Death of Lucretia", according to legend, belonged to the poet, the last portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina-Ланской, penknife Alexander I, from a family album, venison, etc., portraits of people from the inner circle of the poet, as well as landscapes of places. Related.

a Significant place in the collection of the GMF is portrait painting, the core of which are intravital portraits of Pushkin. Some of them the Museum is today St Petersburg.

the exhibition "Masterpieces of the Moscow Pushkiniana" presented a miniature portrait of Pushkin-ребенка the work of Xavier de Maistre, who became a symbol of the Moscow Pushkiniana. It was written by the artist in the years 1800-1802 in Moscow — city, where the poet was born and spent the first years of his life. According to the legend, N. O. Pushkin gave him the Wielkopolska S. M., the daughter of family physician and friend of Pushkin, Professor M. Ya Mudrova, and more than a hundred years, the portrait was kept by her descendants. In the halls of the exhibition you can see another in vivo image of Pushkin — miniature made by I. I. Vivien. In the years 1818-1852 the artist lived and worked in Moscow. There was his meeting with the poet, returning in 1826 to his hometown of Mikhailovsky links. The undeniable artistic and historical-культурную value is a copy of a portrait of Pushkin from the original O. A. Kiprensky, taken by an unknown Russian master in the middle of the XIX century by order of a close friend of the poet Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky. It was called "ostafevskaya copy", it comes from the suburban estate vyazemskys Ostafievo.

On the picturesque ceremonial and intimate portraits of the XVIII —XIX centuries depicted the representatives of the Russian nobility of the era. A wide and varied range of authors of these portraits. Along with the works of well known Russian and foreign artists: E. I. Botman, I. K. Makarov, Xavier de Maistre, A. Molinari, Б.-Ш. Mituara, .D. Mylnikov, V. I. tropinina, the exhibition includes works of serf artists and unknown painters. Among the portraits of contemporaries of Pushkin — image of his friends, relatives and secular friends: I. I. Dmitrieva, N. P. Galitzine, A. A. Suvorova-Рымникского, A. A. Andro (nee Venison), N.N. Pushkina-Ланской, V. F. Gagarina, and others. A special place is given to the portraits of the next of kin of the famous "Moscow elder" E. P. Yankova, author of the memoir, "grandma's Stories...", which became a kind of encyclopedia of aristocratic life. Old inscriptions on the back of the canvas, stickers and labels on stretcher frames many of the portraits show that once they were in family gatherings, and this is their enduring value.

paintings F. Y. Alexeev, M. N. Vorobyov and S. M. Sukhostav lead us to Moscow 1800-1840-х years; watercolours by V. Sadovnikov in St. invite-Петербург second half of the nineteenth century; works V. Knoll — in the Caucasus. Almost all the work, the exhibition, "dressed" in an old frame that allows you to better feel the flavor of that era, to feel the authenticity and relevance of the material presented.

Atmosphere also help you to feel rare editions, devoted to Moscow, and decorative-прикладного art. The Museum's collection allows you to demonstrate such masterpieces of the Golden age of French bronze candelabras as-треножники work of Pierre Gutier; vase in the form of ancient amphorae and candelabra with the spoils of his student Pierre-Филиппа tamira; watch "Death of Lucretia" Claude Halle.

the Exhibition "Masterpieces of the Moscow Pushkiniana" reveals to visitors part of the Museum collections and introduces them to valuable items that are collected, studied and cherish the staff of the Moscow Museum of as Pushkin.

Source: press-релиз GMF