The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the prince Grigory Gagarin.
Gagarin is one of the most talented Russian amateur artists, the creator of the Museum of “Christian antiques”, enthusiastic collector, Vice-president of the Emperor Academy of Arts. For the first time in a late hundred years the exhibition in such a great scale presents the paintings, book illustrations, album sketches, the samples of the scenery painting, architectural designs, sketches of the church painting, icons, fresco copies, early photo works by Gagarin, large-format lithograph albums and books from his private library. There are also exhibited the archive documents, related with the military, academic, social, educational and collector activity of the prince. The real discovery of museum researches is the Portrait of Sofia Gagarina in the Garden that earlier was considered lost.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute of the Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Science (the Pushkin House), the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the State Historical Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Ethnographical Museum and the private collectors.
With the financial support of OJSC IC ROSNO
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