The 5 branches of the Russian Museum
The Russian museum of Saint Peteresburg is the second most important set of museums after the Hermitage, and a must see. It consists of 5 different large museums, each one is a master piece of itself, and some gardens and smaller museums: the main Russian museum is set at Mikhailovsky Palace and accompanying buildings (entrance from the Mikhailovsky Garden / or from 4 Inzhenernaya Str., St. Petersburg or from the road that goes from Nevsky Prospect to the Spilled Blood church – follow the crowd and you would definitely find it!). Smaller museums are set at the Marble Palace, Stroganov Palace, Peter the First first home and others (more details here). I took lots of photos of Russian art which impressed me from the Mikhailovsky Palace part of the museum – the Russian art is beautiful, unique, sometimes very critic, and would usually require you to look twice and think. I hope you would enjoy it and please take it as a challenge to look and think of the hidden messages in some of those spectacular works of art – I did a lot of effort in recording the names of each picture 🙂
Sunset, by Arkhip Kuindzhi – zoom to this picture so see how perfect it is!
Moonlight Night on the Dnieper, by Arkhip Kuindzhi, a camera can’t capture the perfection of this art
“Festivity during carnival on the Admiralisky Square in St. Petersburg”, a wall size picture by Konstantin Makovsky.
Nero’s Death, by Vasily Smirnov (wall size picture)
Phrime at the Festival of Poseidon at the Elcusinia, by Henryk Seimiraszki (wall size picture)
View of the memorial to Peter the First, by Vasily Serikov
No this is not a photograph! Scroll down and see for yourself:
Twilight Moon, by Levitan
“Lake”, by Issac Levitan
“Silence”, by Isaac Levitan
Yvacheslav Mikhailov Born 1945 – The last Supper (1984)
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin 1878-1939 – Self Portrait (1928)
“Death of a Commissar”, 1928, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939)
“Mother”, 1915, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939)
“Shock Workers (masters of analytical art)”, 1934, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941)
“Live Head”, 1926, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941)
“Live Head”, 1923, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941). Note the different version from 1926…
“German War”, 1914-15, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941). Zoom to see how amazing this picture is
“Peasant Family”, 1914, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941). Zoom to see how strong this picture is
“…Winter into Summer”, 1913-14, by Pavel Filonov (1883-1941). Zoom to see how strong this picture is
by Natalia Gonocharova (I think…), 1881-1962
by Natalia Gonocharova (I think…), 1881-1962
I didn’t like this one,even that he is very famous
Cyclist (1913) by Natalia Gonocharova, 1881-1962
by Natalia Gonocharova, 1881-1962
Portrait of Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964)
and his platoon commander , 1911 Natalia Gonocharova, 1881-1962
Crimean Countryside, 1915 by Robert Falk, 1886-1958
Winter City Landscape, circa 1914 by Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944)
Self portrait and portrait of Pyotr kanchilalovsky, 1910 by Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944)
Family Portrait, 1911 by Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876-1956)
Self Portraits (Harlequin and Pierrof) 1914, by Vasily Shukhayev (1887-1973) and Alexander Yakovlev (1887-1938)
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914 by Nathan Altman (1889-1970)
Portrait of Vsyevolad Meyerhold, 1916 by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
A girl with a churn, 1917 by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapiln 1922 by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
Bather, wood by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
A woman bather 1921 by Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
Merchants Wife 1915, by Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927)
Portrait of prince Felix Yussupov, 1903 by Valentine Serov (1866-1911)
From far: no it is not Stalin. Portrait of prince Felix Yussupov, 1903 by Valentine Serov (1866-1911)
Hermit 1888, by Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)
Holy Russia, 1905, by Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)
Mist, 1899 – by Anna Golubkina (1864-1927)
Different angle on Mist, 1899 – by Anna Golubkina (1864-1927)
Visiting during a spring holiday, 1916, By Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930)
The great taking of the veil, 1898, by Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)
By Mikhail Vrubel. In reality his art is spectacular, the photos do not respect how good it is.
By Mikhail Vrubel
By Mikhail Vrubel
a 19th century chess set (the Russian museum, st. Peteresburg)
