The Russian Museum

The large-scale exhibition from the funds of the Russian Museum has enabled to trace the development of Russian landscape painting: spring, summer, autumn and winter in the oeuvre of the well-known Russian artists of the 18^th-20^th centuries and feel the individuality of each master. The exhibition, subdivided into four parts, comprised the works by such celebrated masters as Ivan Shishkin, Fyodor Vasilyev, Alexei Savrasov and Isaac Levitan and the works of the less known artists: Nikolai Fokin, Marie Bashkirtseff, Sergei Svetoslavsky and Georgy Vereisky. Some of the works were exhibited for the first time. Modern visual effects, applied by the organisers of the exhibition, recreated various natural phenomena (sailing clouds, falling snow and wind) and contributed to a kind of immersion of a viewer into the atmosphere of certain climatic periods, featured in the paintings. The show was accompanied with a film-slide with the scenes from the life of nature and music from the Seasons by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The exhibition was supported by the British American Tobacco, Russia.