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The opening of the permanent exhibitions The Ceremonial Portrait
In the framework of preparing of the Faces of Russia exposition
St Michael’s Castle
The Russian Museum is preparing the Faces of Russia large-scaled exposition in St Michael’s Castle that will be finally opened in October 2012. Since May 30, 2012 its first part is presented. This section is devoted to the ceremonial portrait in Russian art of the 18th – early 20th century. The exposition includes 36 paintings by the Russian and foreign artists (V.Borovikovsky, G. Dowe, P.Drozhdin, L.Karavak, V.Makovsky, S.Torelli and the others), with the works by till nowadays unknown authors among them. This spacious gallery put together mostly large-scaled ceremonial portraits of the Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich, Tsarevna Sofia, Peter the Great, Catherine the Second, Alexander the First, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, Nicolai the First, Alexander the Third and other rulers of Russia and members of Emperor’s Family from Ivan the Terrible to Nicolai the Second.
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