Tsvetaev and Princes Yusupov Automatic translate

Venue: The main building of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin (Hall 25), Volkhonka, 12

Exhibition curator: Lyubov Savinskaya, leading researcher at the Department of Art of the Old Masters of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin.

The exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Arkhangelskoye State Museum-Estate and is dedicated to one of the pages of the history of the Museum of Fine Arts, created on the initiative of Moscow University professor Ivan Tsvetayev for donations from individuals. Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna and Prince Felix Feliksovich Yusupov-Sumarokov-Elston were founding members of the Committee for the Construction of the Museum of Fine Arts, financed the work of copying the early Christian catacomb frescoes by the artist Fedor Petrovich Reiman in 1898-1900 and made donations to the building of the Museum of Rome the opening in 1912 bore the name of their famous ancestor, the founder of the family art collection of Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831). Owning the largest private art collection in the country by the beginning of the 20th century, the Yusupovs themselves nurtured the idea of ​​creating private public museums in the St. Petersburg palace on the Moika River and in the Arkhangelskoye estate near Moscow. In the 1920s, as a result of nationalization, a significant part of the paintings and drawings of the Yusupov Princes’ collection entered the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and currently many Yusupov paintings are in the permanent exhibition of the Pushkin Museum.

The exhibition will feature works by F.P. Reiman from the 1900 series, photographs and photo postcards of famous St. Petersburg and Moscow photo studios, archival materials from the manuscript department of the Pushkin Museum, the archive of the Arkhangelskoye State Museum-Estate, manuscripts department of the State Historical Museum, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.