The exposition will emphasize the magnitude of the Russian artists’ movement to the east and their role in the modernist style of art. Among exhibits are unique canvases of such prominent masters as Pavel Kuznetsov, Beatrisa Sandomirskaya, Alexander Volkov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Alexander Samokhvalov, Mikhail Kurzin and many others.

Those painters, graphic artists and sculptors had different tasks but one goal: avant-gardists and neo-classics were bound by adoration of the grandeur and mystery of Asia.

The core of the exhibition project is the largest collection of “oriental” fine art, held by the Tretyakov Gallery and for the first time so amply displayed to visitors.

The separate section is devoted to works of artists who were evacuated to Central Asian republics during the Great Patriotic War.