Olga Nasedkina
MUSEUMS OF RUSSIA
Olga Nasedkina
The Levitan Memorial Museum in Plyos -Historical Highlights
Special issue. ISAAC LEVITAN
In June 2010 the town of Plyos marked its 600th anniversary. 50 years ago, in 1960, the day for the festivities was set on August 30, which coincided with the centenary of the birth of Isaac Levitan, the illustrious landscape artist. Many artists from Moscow and the city of Ivanovo responded to the artist Boris Prorokov's call to donate their paintings to Plyos. The new picture gallery, an establishment operated on pro bono basis, was opened in 1961; initially it was accommodated at a Plyos agricultural college, on Sobornaya Hill, in a building which before the revolution was occupied by a governmental agency. Later, in 1962, the gallery moved to the Voskresensky church near Torgovaya Square, not far from a boat quay.
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MUSEUMS OF RUSSIA Olga Nasedkina №3 2010 (28) In 1960 the town of Plyos celebrated its 50th anniversary, setting the day for the festivities on August 30, which coincided with the centenary of the birth of Isaac Levitan – the illustrious landscape artist. Many artists from Moscow and the city of Ivanovo responded to Prorokov’s call to donate their paintings to Plyos. The new picture gallery, an esta-blishment operated on pro bono basis, was opened in 1961; initially it was accommodated at a Plyos agricultural college, on Sobornaya Hill, in a building which before the revolution was occupied by a governmental agency. Later, in 1962, the gallery moved to the Voskresensky church near Torgovaya Square, not far from a boat quay. |
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