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Opening of the rooms № 18-20 after major reconstruction (from the Grand Staircase to the Garden Vestibule)
After
a complete restoration of the spaces on the ground floor of the
Mikhailovsky palace, rooms № 18-29 (from the Parade Staircase to
the Garden Vestibule) are now open to the public.
The
permanent exhibition created in these rooms includes works by Fyodor
Vasiliev, Vasily Vereshchagin, Nikolai Ge, Konstantin Makovsky,
Vasily Perov, Alexei Savrasov, Henryk Semiradski, Pavel Chistyakov,
Konstantin Flavitsky, Ivan Shishkin and other masters of Russian art,
as well as examples of sculpture of the second half of the XIXth
century.
The
rooms are equipped with adjustable LED lighting. This allows to show
the paintings in the best lighting conditions possible, helping
visitors to see familiar canvases in a new way. Many of these
paintings were also restored.
During
one and a half years, the rooms themselves were also restored,
including the grisaille murals, the plafonds in the former quarters
of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, parquet floors and other elements of
the historical decoration. The concept for the exhibition of Russian
art of the second half of the XIXth century has been updated.
Paintings that previously were in storage or displayed in different
halls are now a part of this exhibition. These include little-known
painting studies by Ivan Shishkin and works by Marie Bashkirtseff,
canvases by the well-known battle painter Vasily Vereshchagin from
his "Russian series", as well as genre paintings by Konstantin
Makovsky and landscapes by Alexei Savrasov.
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