The exhibition
«Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich» is devoted to the Emperor Pavel I's
childhood and adolescence. The exhibition is held in St.Michael's
Castle - the Emperor's favorite place where, by irony, he was
killed by the conspirators on the night between March 11 and March
12, 1801.
All the biographical
materials about the Grand Duke for the special exhibition that is
planned as the part of a large project «The Romanovs Family Saga»
were collected for the first time. The exhibition shows portraits of
Pavel Petrovich and the members of his family, narrative and
allegorical genre paintings that tell stories about the life of the
Grand Duke, and also graphical works, miniatures, applied art and
everyday objects of that period in history from the collection of the
Russian Museum and other collections. These materials allow us to
present the subject of the exhibition in the most comprehensive way,
and let visitors reconsider the prejudiced appraisement in relation
to the personality of the Grand Duke.
The Russian museum
is grateful to the State Hermitage, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the
Gatchina State Museum Reserve, the Peterhoff State Museum Reserve,
The Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve, the museums of the Kremlin, the
State Russian Historical Archive and the Russian National Library for
the exhibits to display. Special thanks to private collectors
Y.Abramov, P.Novbari, S. Podstanitsky, T.Podstanitsky, V.Tzarenkov
and others, who agreed to take part in the exhibition and gave the
objects of everyday life from Pavel's epoch from their collections.