The Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin is 100 years old

Opened on May 31, 1912, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin today celebrates its centenary, which has become a landmark event in the cultural life of the capital and the whole world.

Exactly one hundred years ago, the opening of the museum was honored by the presence of Sovereign Nikolai II, once and for all having determined the high status of this cultural center of national importance, founded on the initiative of the professor of Moscow State University, Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev. Currently, the museum successfully hosts an exhibition dedicated to this significant event, which, of course, will take its place in the history of the development of fine arts in Russia. This unique exposition will delight art critics and ordinary art admirers for a whole month, giving visitors the opportunity to appreciate exclusive masterpieces of painting, numismatics and sculpture. A separate room is dedicated to the rich history of the museum, which began with the bold projects of Princess Volkonskaya, and in a hundred years turned the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin in one of the largest world collections of rare works of art.

The most famous museums of the world were honored to present their collections at the anniversary exhibition of the most significant cultural center of Russia. Therefore, today, within the walls of the museum, little-known canvases of Malevich and Durer feel at home, the famous paintings by Jerome Bosch and Eduard Monet, the unique masterpieces of Modigliani and El Greco. This unique exhibition covers almost the entire history of world art, offering aesthetes to enjoy the best examples of creativity from different eras. And such a luxurious feast of spirit was created with meaning - Pushkinsky, for his anniversary, selected foreign masterpieces especially carefully, giving preference to the rarest exhibits that have not yet been exhibited in the halls of the hero of the day. And so that visitors could fully appreciate all the wealth of the collections, the “honored guests” of the capital were distributed across all the halls. So, regular visitors in search of unique masterpieces will be able to test their observation skills and education, and beginners will be able to get acquainted with the whole palette of works of fine art exhibited in the country’s most revered museum.

Throughout its history, the museum has experienced many difficult dramatic periods, including German raids and the ups and downs of the personality cult. The walls restored in the post-war years still contain fragments of bombs, and the exhibition halls remember how in 1949 the masterpieces of world art were replaced with gifts to Comrade Stalin, who for four whole years became the only inhabitants of the world-famous historic building on Volkhonka. Since 1980, the museum hosts annual December and December music and painting festivals, and during the period of perestroika, museum funds included a rich collection of personal collections

Today, the storerooms and exhibition halls of the museum are more than half a million fund of the best works of famous and unknown artists, sculptors and talented artisans, covering the period from ancient times to the present day. And one does not have to be a seer in order to claim that the Pushkin Museum has lived with dignity for more than a century, generously sharing with visitors the mysterious magic of fine art, which, according to many philosophers, is the true meaning of our life.

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The opening of the Pushkin Museum - 31.05 (n.a. 13.06) 1912

Film Leonid Parfyonov "Eye of God" to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin