The Russian Museum opened in 1898 boasts to house the largest Russian fine art collection of the world. Located in Mikhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg Russian Museum is named after and built for Paul First’s son Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich.
The Russian State Museum has a marvelous collection of sculptures, oil paintings, and decorative, graphic and applied art. The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg has a collection of nearly 400,000 exhibits.
The exhibits include collections from the Royal Palaces, The Hermitage, and the Museum of the Academy of Arts. Donations from private collectors particularly from Lobanov-Rostovsky, and Nikolai Likahachev make up a significant set of exhibits.
The Russian Museum as of now is a gigantic complex comprising the Mikhailovsky Palace, the Benois Wing, St. Michael’s Castle (also Engineer’s Castle), the Stroganov Palace, the Marble Palace, and the House of Peter the Great.The Mikhailovsky Garden, Summer Garden, and Engineering Garden also form part of this museum’s premises.
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The Russian Museum Collections
The rich collection of paintings include Fidelio Bruni’s ‘The Brazen Serpent’, Karl Brullov’s ‘The Last Days of Pompeii’, Vladimir Borovikovsky’s ‘Portrait of Murtaza Kuli Khan’, and Alexander Ivanov’s ‘Christ’s Appearance to St. Mary Magdalene.
Other paintings include works of Ivan Argunov, Alexei Venetsianov, Pavel Fedotov, and Geroge Christoph Grooth.
The memorable sculptures include ‘Venus’ by Ivan Vitali, ‘Faun and Bacchante’ by Boris Orlovsky, ‘Grief’ by Naum Aronson, ‘Ivan the Terrible’ by Mark Antokolsky, and ‘Diana’ by Fedos Schedrin.
The Russian Museum remains open from 10 am to 5 pm on all days except Monday when it remains open between 10 am and 4pm. Tuesday is the weekly closure for the museum. Mikhailovsky Palace, the main building, is located in 4 Inzhenernaya Street, near Gostiny Dvor Metro station in Nevsky Prospekt.
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