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On June 10, 2016 at 13 o’clock in the Dance Hall of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts the next rally “Gift Day” will be held. Since 2007, this museum festival has been annually held within the walls of the museum on the eve of its founding - June 12. The “Donation Day” project is a great opportunity to express gratitude to artists, collectors, owners who have contributed to the noble cause of helping domestic culture.

A significant part of the gifts received were works of art presented after the closure of exhibitions held in the museum. So, from the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists, the museum received 12 works by contemporary Petersburg artists, including famous painters Anatoly Vasiliev and Victor Sirenko, sculptor Nikolai Karlykhanov, and theater artist Irina Birulya. Honored Artist of Russia Ivan Tarasyuk donated not only author’s works to the museum, but also handed over a whole collection of graphic works created by representatives of the St. Petersburg school. Of particular interest are the vivid, "fabulous" autolithographs of the People’s Artist of the RSFSR Yuri Vasnetsov and no less interesting illustrations of his daughter, the artist Elizaveta Vasnetsova.

The diversity presented by the Moscow masters of fine art is distinguished by its diversity, individual diversity. Among the donors, first of all, the honored artist of Russia Andrei Dubov, the painter and graphic artist Yuri Shestakov, the landscape painter Alexander Shilov, the symbolist artist Vladimir Pronin should be noted. The extraordinary, sharply expressive works received from women artists of Moscow and Moscow Region - Nadezhda Severina, Olga Tikhonova, Victoria Osmerkina, Svetlana Zhigalova, Chulpan Tsvetkova, Yana Poklad, Umit Bek, Elena Gorina, Irina Korshunova, Natella Toze, are of great interest. The last of the mentioned artists, by the way, a representative of a well-known family of artists, specially painted a beautiful landscape for our museum, which she presented at the opening day of her personal exhibition.

Among the many gifts of the museum, original works by contemporary Cuban artists Omar Godines and Maria Valdes Odriosola attract attention. They are distinguished by a wide writing, “hot” flavor, appeal to national traditions. The works of Kaluga artists are well represented. Valery Parahod (Eremenko) successfully works in the genre of naive art. Monumentalist Vladimir Trofimenko, who recently moved from Kazakhstan to Kaluga, prefers to paint portraits.

An important contribution to the museum’s funds was made by Muscovite G. I. Manevich, art critic, writer, widow of a world-class artist Eduard Steinberg. The collection of paintings was replenished with several works of the famous Russian nonconformist. It is impossible not to single out a resident of Kazan T. A. Yurchenko, who sent six drawings of our countrywoman, the sculptor E. D. Nikiforova-Kirpichnikova. Seven paintings and graphic works by Moscow artist Raisa Zelinsky-Plata, daughter of the chemist ND Zelinsky, were presented to the museum by her son, journalist F. A. Plata. The picture of the outstanding Armenian artist Georgy Tovmasyan was presented by the grandson of the original master Menua Mkrtchyan. A valuable gift to the museum - antique wall clocks by a famous German company - was presented by Kaluzhanka V.N. Chusovskaya. A particularly significant contribution to the museum collection was made by a citizen of the Republic of Austria, Hugo Kornberger. A miniature depicting His Imperial Highness Konstantin Pavlovich was taken out by the uncle of the owner during the fascist occupation of Kaluga. Hugo Kornberger made a lot of efforts to fulfill the will of his uncle: to return the work of art to its historical homeland.