Exhibition "Invitation to dinner. Cookbook of the Russian Museum"

From October 14, 2015 to January 17, 2016, the exhibition “Invitation to dinner. Cookbook of the Russian Museum ”from the collection of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg).

The invitation to dinner exhibition (Cookbook of the Russian Museum), a project of the State Russian Museum, presents sixty paintings and drawings of Russian art of the 19th and 20th centuries, revealing the visual embodiment of the traditions of the Russian feast, feasting merchants and noble or modest peasant dinners. The works contain historical and ethnographic subjects, the genre picture and still life reflect Russian hospitality and hospitality, meals and amusements of various classes of Russia. The need to go on a visit and receive guests was the most important aspect of communication between people, it was a natural desire to overcome loneliness, solving problems and disputes between people. The exhibition offers the viewer to plunge into the atmosphere of the history of the fatherland through the prism of plots related to food and feasts: from the work of a Russian artist of the 17th century. A. I. Vishnyakova "Peasant Revel" before the works created by modern masters of the beginning of the XXI century. The exposition presents the works of A. Korzukhin, I. Repin, P. Konchalovsky, A. Lentulov, K. Petrov-Vodkin, I. Mashkov, A. Kuprin, I. Bilibin, Yu. Vasnetsov, S. Gerasimov, Yu. Pimenov and others.

Within the framework of the project of the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan presents an exhibition from its collection “Rehim itegez! Still life, genre painting, porcelain and silver from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan ”, which includes the works of artists of Russia and Tatarstan, as well as porcelain and silver from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of the RT, representing“ culinary ”plots and feasts. Put together, all the works presented can compose a colorful feast book "Cookbook", the pages of which will remind the viewer of the rich history of the country.

Website of the Pushkin Museum of RT: www.izo-museum.ru