Natalia Soukhova

MASTERPIECES OF RUSSIAN ART

Natalia Soukhova
Vrubel’s “Dream”

№2 2005 (07)

As the Tretyakov Gallery's 150th anniversary approaches, the “Tretyakov Gallery” magazine initiates a series of special articles tracing the history of selected paintings from the Gallery's collection. In the first, the focus is on Mikhail Vrubel's “Princess of Dreams”. Next year will not only mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Tretyakov Gallery, but 2006 will also be the 150th anniversary of Vrubel's birth – and exactly 110 years since he created his “Princess of Dreams”. The painting brought Vrubel fame as an artist, simultaneously involving him in an enormous scandal in which the Tsar himself was to become embroiled. In recent years, the “Princess of Dreams” has fared better. An entire room was created in the Tretyakov Gallery to house the painting – the Vrubel room.