Happy Birthday to Alexander Pushkin!

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Veronika Kirsanova
Pushkin in Portrait. “Like the memory of first love, you will forever stay dear to Russia’s heart…”

#4 2019 (65)

To mark the 220th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin in 2019, Moscow’s Pushkin Museum (the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin) staged an unprecedented exhibition of portraits of the great Russian poet. It brought together more than 300 works from Russian museums and galleries, both images created in the poet’s lifetime and works made after his death.

EVENT. THE YEAR OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Anna Volkhovskaya
Alexander Pushkin and Spain

#1 2016 (50)

The exhibition "Alexander Pushkin and Spain" has been timed to mark the Year of Russian Language and Literature in Spain and the Year of Spanish Language and Literature in Russia, held in the two countries in 2015-2016. Divided into two major sections, it explores respectively the plots and images in Pushkin's art inspired by Spain, and the periods, and accompanying attitudes, in which Pushkin's creative works were received by Spanish readers.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Svetlana Belekhova
Portraits of Pushkin

#2 2012 (35)

19th- and 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Pushkin Museum

Virtually all major Russian artists from the 19th to the 21st century have in their time turned to the theme of Alexander Pushkin in their art. Orest Kiprensky, Vasily Tropinin, Ivan Aivazovsky and Nikolai Ghe; Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov; Mark Antokolsky and Paolo Troubetzkoy; Vladimir Favorsky and Alexei Kravchenko; Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Arkady Plastov; Mikhail Anikushin and Yekaterina Belashova; Konstantin Yuon, Vitaly Goryayev, Vasily Shukhaev, Nikolai Ulyanov, Viktor Popkov, Pyotr Ossovsky, Igor Obrosov and countless others have been inspired by the poet over the years.

HERITAGE

Lyubov Golovina
The Sculptor Alexander Opekushin: Reviving Nationa Feeling

#1 2007 (14)

The second half of the 19th century brought Russian art a number of talented masters, whose names have now largely been forgotten by specialists. Despite the fact that his work speaks volumes about the period of its creation with its problems and contradictions, the sculptor Alexander Opekushin is precisely one such undervalued figure.