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In Russia

V.D. Polenov, Overgrown pond, 1879. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

Seasons of Vasily Polenov

13 Nov — 30 Mar 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

F.A. Vasilyev, After heavy rain, 1870. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

The Magic of watercolour

29 Nov — 18 May 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Current events

In Russia

M.A. Voloshin, Paris. Place de la Concorde at night, 1914–1915. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Elizaveta Kruglikova and around

31 May — 19 Oct 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Dimitri Zoellin, 713 lives of Charlie. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

713 lives of Charlie

23 May — 17 Aug 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Evgeniy Tykotsky, Meetings and partings. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Evgeniy Tykotsky. Meetings and partings

23 May — 17 Aug 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Alexander Naiman, The vast world of a small person, exhibition view. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

The vast world of a small person

16 May — 27 Jul 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Anton Bratykin, The edge of balance, exhibition view. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

The edge of balance

16 May — 27 Jul 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Fyodor Fyodorovich Nothaft (Friedrich Notthafft) and his collection. An account of the hermitage life during wartime. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

Fyodor Fyodorovich Nothaft (...) and his collection (...)

7 May — 14 Sep 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

“A pocketful of dreams”. Art deco fashion in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum and Nazim Mustafayev, exhibition view. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

A pocketful of dreams (...)

30 Apr — 7 Sep 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

B.M. Kustodiev, Festivities, 1922. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Boris Kustodiev's exhibition

30 Apr — 28 Sep 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

The divine Michelangelo and his contemporaries, exhibition view. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

The divine Michelangelo and his contemporaries

26 Apr — 24 Aug 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Casket, first half of the 19th century. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

The sparkle of crystal and fineness of facets… (...)

23 Apr 2025 — 29 Mar 2026 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

G.G. Nissky, Landing party, 1944. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

1418 days. To the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory

22 Apr — 9 Nov 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

F.A. Bruni, Brazen serpent. A final sketch for the namesake picture of 1840 held by the Emperor Alexander III Russian Museum, 1839. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

According to the laws of classics. Drawings by F.A. Bruni

19 Apr — 10 Aug 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

S.M. Karpov, Blacksmiths. Samarkand, 1925. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

The way to the east. Russian artists in central Asia

17 Apr — 28 Sep 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Set of painted tableware, Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Courtesy of the Moscow Kremlin Museum

Fine dining, stories of food in ancient China

11 Apr — 17 Aug 2025 at the Moscow Kremlin Museum in Moscow, Russia

Nikolai Vatagin, Familiar faces, exhibition view. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

21 Mar — 29 Jun 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Maria Garkavenko, Dresses. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

21 Mar — 29 Jun 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Antonio Fantuzzi, after an original by Rosso Fiorentino, Design for stucco decorations in the Gallery of Francis I, circa 1542–44. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

The french manner (...)

19 Mar — 13 Jul 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Oleg Ivaschenko, On the way. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

14 Mar — 22 Jun 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Katerina Smirnova and Stanislav Danilin, Connection. Courtesy of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Katerina Smirnova and Stanislav Danilin. Connection

14 Mar — 22 Jun 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

V.I. Yurlov, Counterform (Crimea), 1956. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Valery Yurlov. Experiments in reasoning

5 Mar — 17 Aug 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Valery and Vitaly Liba, Tapestry “market”, 2024. Courtesy of the New Tretyakov Gallery

110. Russian design 1915 – 1925

27 Dec 2024 — 11 Jan 2026 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan. Return, exhibition view. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan. Return

17 Dec 2024 — 2 Nov 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

V.M. Vasnetsov, Two men in a four-wheeled cart, 1871. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Viktor Vasnetsov. The beginning

4 Dec 2024 — 6 Jul 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

The Belle Epoque. European art of the turn of the 20th Century from the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum, exhibition view. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

The Belle Epoque

29 Nov 2024 — 14 Sep 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Peter I and his era, exhibition painting. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

Peter I and his era

25 Oct 2024 — 23 Jun 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Beauty as rhythm: female figures in the collection of traditional african art of the State Hermitage Museum. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

Beauty as rhythm (...)

27 Jul 2023 — 31 Jan 2026 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Permanent events

In Russia

Russian Culture and Art of the First Half of the 18th Century. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Russian Culture and Art

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Mongolia, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

North America, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Dutch Painting. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Flemish Painting. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Flemish Painting

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Japan, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Gottorp (greater academic) globe, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Gottorp (greater academic) globe

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

First astronomical observatory of the academy of sciences, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

First astronomical observatory of the academy of sciences

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

The Art of Armenia and Georgia. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Art of Armenia and Georgia

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

French Art of the 15th -18th Centuries. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

French Art of the 15th -18th Centuries

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Art of India of the 1st – 19th Centuries. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Art of India of the 1st – 19th Centuries

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Scythian culture of the 7th – 2nd centuries B.C. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Scythian culture of the 7th – 2nd centuries B.C.

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Indonesia, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Korea, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Mikhail Lomonosov and the 18th-century academy of sciences, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Mikhail Lomonosov and the 18th-century academy of sciences

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Indochina, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

The Culture of the Golden Horde. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Culture of the Golden Horde

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Art of the Hellenistic Era. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Art of the Hellenistic Era

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Venetian School of Art of the Italian Renaissance. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Venetian School of Art of the Italian Renaissance

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Western European Armour of the 15th-17th Centuries. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Western European Armour of the 15th-17th Centuries

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Near and Middle East, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Near and Middle East

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

The Art of Medieval Daghestan. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Art of Medieval Daghestan

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Italian Art of the 16th -18th Centuries. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Italian Art of the 16th -18th Centuries

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Peter’s Kunstkamera, or the tower of knowledge, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Peter’s Kunstkamera, or the tower of knowledge

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

German Art of the 15th – 18th Centuries. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

German Art of the 15th – 18th Centuries

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Art of Japan. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Art of Japan

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Latin America, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Imperia hall, multinational Russia, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Imperia hall, multinational Russia

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

Africa, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

China, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstkamera

Permanent event at Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia

The Culture of the Middle East in Ancient Times. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Culture of the Middle East in Ancient Times

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

The Russian Interior Decoration. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Russian Interior Decoration

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Past events

In Russia

Alexander James, Martyred Ophelia, 2012

Alexander James. Rastvorennaya Pechal

17 April – 11 May 2014 at Triumph Gallery, Moscow

Constantin Korovin, On the terrace, 1916

The collection of Maya and Anatoly Bekkerman

22 April – 1 June 2014 at The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Diana Vouba. Measure of Silence

22 February - 7 April 2014 at Erarta Galleries, St. Petersburg

Cristiano Pintaldi, Senza titolo, 2013, acrilico su tela, 175 x 269 cm

Cristiano Pintaldi. Suspended Animation

23 Gennaio - 3 Marzo 2014 presso Accademia Russa di Belle Arti, San Pietroburgo

Alexander Lufer. Before and After

20 December 2013 - 27 January 2014 at Erarta Galleries, St. Petersburg

Immensely adoring emerald. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

Immensely adoring emerald

4 Dec 2024 — 8 Jun 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Alex Partola, Prtl, exhibition view. Courtesy of the Ruаrts Gallery

25 Apr — 8 Jun 2025 at Ruаrts Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Monument to a lost civilization, exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Monument to a lost civilization

3 Jul 2024 — 1 Jun 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

F.A. Vasilyev, After heavy rain, 1870. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

The Magic of watercolour

29 Nov — 18 May 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

P.V. Basin, Portrait of S.F. Shchedrin, 1822. Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery

Romantic classicist Piotr Basin 1793–1877

30 Nov 2024 — 11 May 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

V.E. Popkov, Reminiscences. Widows, 1966. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

4 Dec 2024 — 11 May 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Items from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum and the collection of Y. A. Borisov. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

A source of beauty. Art nouveau glass from Lorraine

1 Nov 2024 — 14 Apr 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

M.K. Clodt von Jürgensburg, In the field, 1872. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

30 Oct 2024 — 6 Apr 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

V.D. Polenov, Overgrown pond, 1879. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

Seasons of Vasily Polenov

13 Nov — 30 Mar 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Mihály Zichy, The marriage of Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich and Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna on 28 October 1866 in the Great Church of the Winter Palace, 1867. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Wedding ceremonies in Russia

15 Jun 2024 — 30 Mar 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

N.I. Nesterova, Le chasse. Hunting. Polyptych, 2011. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

History and enigmas

25 Dec 2024 — 23 Mar 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

In the shadow of Ararat, exhibition paintings. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

In the shadow of Ararat

22 Nov 2024 — 23 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Alain Bonnefoit, Scent of a woman, exhibition painting. Courtesy of Erarta

Scent of a woman

13 Dec 2024 — 16 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Dasha Art, Accents and forms, exhibition photo. Courtesy of Erarta

Accents and forms

13 Dec 2024 — 16 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

S.T. Konyonkov, Feast, 1910. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

My century. To the sculptor’s 150th anniversary

12 Nov 2024 — 9 Mar 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Olga Tarasova, The other side, exhibition view. Courtesy of Erarta

20 Dec 2024 — 9 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Mary Perkins, The misbehavers, exhibition painting. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

The misbehavers

6 Dec 2024 — 2 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Olesya Kot, Transparent world, exhibition sculpture. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

Transparent world

29 Nov 2024 — 2 Mar 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

F.A. Malyavin, The whirlwind, 1906. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

Adepts of red. Malyavin and Arkhipov

20 Sep 2024 — 16 Feb 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Commemorative coin with a face value of 3 roubles marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, 2023. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

23 Oct 2024 — 11 Feb 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Eduard Mkhoian, Visiting the Minotaur, exhibition sculpture. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

Visiting the Minotaur

8 Nov 2024 — 9 Feb 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Hans Ryssenberg, The monstrance by Hans Ryssenberg, exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The monstrance by Hans Ryssenberg

9 Oct 2024 — 2 Feb 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Various artists, Beauty as rhythm, exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Beauty as rhythm

27 Jul 2024 — 31 Jan 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Searching for the source of the Nile, instalation view. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

Searching for the source of the Nile

27 Sep 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Owned by Imam Saif bin Sultan al-Yarubi (Qaid al-Ard’), Sabre (shamshir), 1675. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The Omani empire. Asia and Africa

9 Dec 2023 — 26 Jan 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Excavated by N.I. Veselovsky, Chased plaque in the form of a deer, Kostromskaya Burial mound No 1, 1897. Courtesy of State Hermitage Museum

Epochs, burial mounds, findings

25 Sep 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

A.A. Morgunov, Under the pink shadow, 1911. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

Among the first

12 Sep 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Carp, last third of the 18th century. Courtesy of the State Hermitage Museum

The masters of Netsuke

3 Oct 2024 — 19 Jan 2025 at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Y.N. Larin, Snow in the mountains, 1983. Courtesy of New Tretyakov Gallery

Painting of the ultimate state

11 Oct 2024 — 19 Jan 2025 at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia

Maksat Shagyrbay, Steppe, exhibition photo. Courtesy of Erarta Museum

Maksat Shagyrbay, steppe

5 Sep 2024 — 12 Jan 2025 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

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