The Russian Museum

27.12.2001
St Petersburg Philharmonic Society
Opening of the Arts Square International Winter Festival.

14.12.2001
Benois Wing, Marble Palace
Opening of the Abstraction in Russia: уу Century exhibition.

6.12.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of Grisha Bruskin's Life is All Around porcelain project

29.11.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of JЖrg Immendorff's All Things Have a Tendency to Change exhibition.

27.11.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the Stas Namin: Photographs exhibition.

21-22.11.2001
Lecture Hall, St Michael-s (Engineers) Castle
VI Pertsev Readings academic conference.

5.11.2001
Mikhailovsky Palace
Official visit of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (prime-minister of India) to the Russian Museum.
Benois Wing
Press-conference on the opening of the Portraiture in Russia: XX Century exhibition and the new permanent exhibition of fin-de-siХcle painting.
Opening of the Portraiture in Russia: XX Century exhibition.

24.10.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Mother of God of Tikhvin: Iconography, History and Worship international conference.

18.10.2001
St Michael-s (Engineers) Castle
Opening of the restored spire of the Chapel of the Archangel Michael in St Michael-s Castle.

11.10.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the " Mikhail Schwarzman. 1926-1997. To the 75th Birthday Anniversary" exhibition.

4.10.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Anna Staritskaya. >From the "Russian Artists in Paris" cycle¦ exhibition.

3.10.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the "Pavel Filonov" exhibition. Works from the collection of the State Russian Museum.

27.09.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the exhibition of Heinrich Zipmann (Germany).

26.09.2001
Mikhailovsky Palace
Ceremonial act of transfer of the ?Portrait of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich¦ painted by the unknown artist of the mid XIX century, donated to the Russian Museum by Tamara Granitova (USA).

13.09.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the ?Petersburg Optics. A. Sovlachkov, V. Nikitin, V. Zagonek, E. Kochergin¦ exhibition.

11.09.2001
Marble Palace
Return after the restoration and mounting of the statues of ? Flora¦ and ?Pomona¦ by F. Shubin onto the main facade attic of the Marble Palace.

24.08.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the ?Alexander Agabekov¦ exhibition.

23.08.2001
Benois Wing
Press-conference on the occasion of the opening of the "Absolute Calm. Photographs by Jurgen Klauke" exhibition.
Opening of the "Absolute Calm. Photographs by Jurgen Klauke" exhibition.

15-16.08.2001
St. Petersburg. Shuvalov Palace
"Healing Art¦ International Art Therapy Festival, organized in collaboration with the State Russian Museum.

12.08.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "David Borovsky. Painting and Graphic Art. To the 75th Birthday Anniversary¦ exhibition.

6.08.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the Vincent Goutal "VG 1995-2001" photography exhibition.

3.08.2001
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Lecture delivered by Nurit Cohen, head of the educational department of the Art Museum of Jerusalem. Presentation of a video film, transparencies and publications organized by the Russian Museum of Ethnography in collaboration with the State Russian Museum.

2.08.2001
Marble Palace
Presentation of the "It-s Not That City..." media-project of Olga Kiseleva.

27.07 - 2.08.2001
Mikhailovsky Gardens
Presentation of the "Daphnis and Chloe" choreographic fantasy. Music by Maurice Ravelle. Performed by the ?Schedia¦ modern ballet company (Greece).

6.07.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the "Russian Distaffs" and " Dymkovo Craftswoman L. S. Falaleyeva" exhibitions.

5.07.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the "Paper Sculpture" exhibition.

2.07.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of three one-man exhibitions: "Boris Koshelokhov. Meditations", "Oleg Kotelnikov. Painting of the 1980s", "Inal Savchenkov. Painting".

29.06.2001
Marble Palace
Demonstration of the tea ceremony. Demonstrator v Nisikava Sotoku, head of the Russian department of the Urasenke Tea Tradition.

28.06.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the J.I.Petlina. Modern Gzhel Majolica exhibition.

27.06.2001
Benois Wing
Ceremonial opening of the entrance to the Russian Museum from the Mikhailovsky Gardens.

27.06.2001
Mikhailovsky Palace
Press conference dedicated to: the signing of the tripartite frame agreement on collaboration between the State Russian Museum, Redisson SAS grand hotel and the administration of St. Petersburg, presentation of the new guidebook on the Russian Museum, opening of the new entrance complex to the Mikhalovsky Palace from the Mikhailovsky Gardens, presentation of the Internet studio for the visitors and a digital studio, ceremonial transfer of rhododendrons as a gift to the Russian Museum from Peter Tigerstedt, professor of the Helsinki University.

20.06.2001
Moscow. State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Traditional joint meeting of the ?Friends of the Russian Museum¦ international society organized by the State Russian Museum and Moscow Art Centre dedicated to the end of the season.

14.06.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Media-hello" exhibition.

6.06.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the "Russian Wooden Sculpture of the XX century" exhibition.

28-29.05.2001
St. Michael-s (Engineers) Castle
Conference dedicated to the results of the academic research work in 2000.

19.05.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the "World of Greece in Russian Art¦ exhibition.

18.05.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Robert Heusser. Photographs.1940-2000" exhibition.

17.05.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Boris Vlasov. To the 65th Birthday Anniversary" exhibition.

26.04.2001
St. Michael-s (Engineers) Castle
Meeting of the Public Council of St. Petersburg, dedicated to the prospects of social and economic development of the city.

24-25.04.2001
St. Michael-s (Engineers) Castle. Lecture Hall
"Neradov Readings" academic-practical seminar dedicated to the problems of storage and restoration of exhibits in an art museum.

24.04.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the Khachatur Bely "The Warm Sand Is Getting Cold-" Dedicated to the People Armenia, Dead and Alive¦ exhibition-action

20.04.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Alexei Talaschuk, Oleg Kuznetsov, Svetlana Ponomarenko, Leonid Kolibaba (painting, graphic art, enamel, sculpture)" exhibition.

19.04.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the "Moneybags" exhibition.

17.04.2001
Stroganov Palace
Traditional meeting of the ?Friends of the Russian Museum¦ international society. Presentation of the ?Nikolai Akimov. Birth Centenary¦ exhibition and the new collection of the Yanis Chamalidi fashion house.
Vladimir Shitarev, vice-governor of St. Petersburg, awarded diplomas and new membership cards to the friends of the Russian Museum.

13.04.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of the ?Nikolai Akimov. Birth Centenary¦ exhibition.

30.03.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the Russian Folk Icon and Lubok exhibition.

23.03.2001
St Michael's (Engineers) Castle
Opening of the Regicide of 11 March 1801 exhibition marking the bicentenary of Emperor Paul I's assassination in St Michael's Castle.

22.03.2001
Benois Wing
Opening of the Fairytales in Russia exhibition.

20.03.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the Arkady Shaikhet: Photographs 1924-51 exhibition.

16.03.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of Alexander Kozhin's Figures, Painting, Graphic Art, Object exhibition.

14-17.03.2001
Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
The Russian Museum takes part in the MIPIM-2001 international property market in Cannes with its Recreation of the St Michael's Castle Fortification Systems and Connetable Square investment project.

2.03.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the My St Petersburg exhibition of photographs by Mikhail Pikalov.

1.03.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of Iya Kirillova's Painting, Graphic Art, Objects exhibition.

26-28.02.2001
Marble Palace
Holding of the Russian Avant-garde: Personality and School international academic conference

23.02.2001
Marble Palace
Opening of the Newnovosibirsk exhibition curated by artists Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, Andrei Molodkin and photographer Gleb Kosorukov. Solo performance by Chinese dancer Yan Shan Lin entitled What Journey Are You Going to Take Me On Tonight?

15.02.2001
Stroganov Palace
Opening of Mikhail Shemyakin's Nutcracker exhibition.

3.02.2001
St Michael's (Engineers) Castle
Press-conference and presentation of the Recreation of St Michael's Castle Complex and the System of Engineering and Fortification Constructions and The Russian Museum in the Pavilions (Corps de Gardes) of St Michael's Castle projects. Among the participants of the press-conference are Mikhail Shvydkoi (Russian minister of culture) and Vladimir Yakovlev (governor of St Petersburg).

2.02.2001
Marble Palace
Press-conference and opening of the Jacob and Joseph Rzhevsky Collection permanent exhibition and presentation of the White Hall restoration programme in the Marble Palace. Vladimir Yakovlev (governor of St Petersburg) takes part in the opening ceremony.

1.02.2001
Moscow Centre of the Arts
Press-conference and opening of the Play and Passion exhibition curated by the Russian Museum.

29.01.2001
St Michael's (Engineers) Castle
Premiere of The Royal Mystic, staged by A. Isakov and the Baltic House theatre company after Dmitry Merezhkovsky's novel Alexander I. The play is mounted within the framework of the joint Legends of St Petersburg project with the Russian Museum, and is performed in the former bedroom of Empress Maria Fyodorovna in St Michael's Castle.

22.01.2001
Lecture Hall, St Michael's (Engineers) Castle
Denis Rich (head of the department of art and mass-media management at Columbia College in Chicago) gives a lecture on Management and Fund-Raising in the Sphere of Culture. The lecture is followed by a round table with contributions from Denis Rich and PR and fund-raising experts from local cultural establishments.

13.01.2001
Benois Wing, Mikhailovsky Palace
Stewart Paperin (executive vice president of the Open Society Institute) and Leonardo Benard (Russian regional director of the Open Society Institute) visit the Russian Museum. Academy Halls, Mikhailovsky Palace Old New Year in the Russian Museum concert organised within the framework of the Palaces of St Petersburg international music festival.