The Russian Museum

The works by Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904)  from the collections of the Russian museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the National Pushkin Museum, the Pskov Historical, Architectural and Art Museum Complex and private collections are presented at the exhibition.

In the exposition there are shown such well-known paintings as: "The Moscow Street of the 17^th Century on the Red-Letter Day", "The Merchant's Family in the 17^th Century", "The Wedding Procession in Moscow (17^th Century)", "Funny Boys of Peter I in a Bar", "They are Coming", "The Moscow Girl of the 17^th Century", graphic works and watercolor from different periods.

Andrei Ryabushkin is known for his paintings on historical and everyday topics from the life of early Rus, specifically from the 17^th century. He painted genre-pictures about peasant-life, portraits, landscapes, worked as book illustrator and made studies for monumental church paintings.

In 1875-1882 Andrei Ryabushkin studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture by Vasiliy Perov, in 1882-1890 - in Academy of Arts by Pavel Chestyakov. In the 1890-s he journed a lot through Russia (Borisoglebsk, Tula, Orel, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Rostov, Kostroma, Nizhnij Novgorod). He took part at the exibitions of the Itinerants fellowship, Society of painters of historical paintings (1895),"World of art" (1898-1900), Association of Russian painters (1903), "36 painters" (1901, 1903).