We Invite You to the Mikhailovsky castle of the Russian Museum 17.12.2015 for the exhibition "Peter I. Time and the environment"
The exhibition, helding in the framework of the project "Saga of the Romanovs," will be the first over the last thirty years such a large-scale exposition of the Russian Museum,which is devoted to the era of Peter I. It will open in the Grand St. George's hall of Mikhailovsky castle, where visitors can see the portraits of Peter I and members of his family, associates and contemporaries, known and unknown to the public. Also on display will be the sculpture, miniatures, objects of decorative art, furniture and costumes of Peter's time, archival materials.
The exposition will tell about a crucial period in the history of Russian culture. It was during the reign of Peter I, the great reforms, Russia has entered the path of transition from the middle ages to the Europeanization that was crucial for the formation of the "new" national culture and the emergence of the Russian school of painting. In the age of Peter I the most common genre was the portrait which vividly reflected the changes happening in the visual arts. The exhibition is presented the masterpieces of the first Russian painters: Ivan Nikitin and Andrei Matveev, outstanding masters of "Rossika" Johann Tannauer, Louis Caravaca and other artists, as well as the rarest monuments of the early society portrait ("portraits"). The exposition will include about 150 works from the collection of the Russian Museum, State Tretyakov gallery, State Hermitage Museum, several Russian museums and private collections.
The exhibition is organized with the supporting of the Charity Fund "System"
The exhibition is in the programme of the IV St. Petersburg International cultural forum and will be continued till the 3 of April 2016.
