Exhibition of Works by Yury Khmelevskoy “Images of Inspiration”

Exhibition period: July 17 — August 16, 2020

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

The Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve is pleased with the new opportunity to present a personal exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Yury Khmelevskoy, a famous Russian sculptor and a recognized master of decorative and applied art.

Yury Khmelevskoy is an artist of bright multifaceted talent, a follower of the high traditions of the Russian realistic sculptural school. The figurative depth and emotional richness of his works, bright artistic individuality, professionalism, mastery of sculptural techniques, sharp plastic language made him one of the most authoritative contemporary sculptors. The master's easel sculptures are in museums and private collections, and his monumental works adorn the squares of several Russian cities.

Our exhibition is timed to coincide with significant dates - the 75th anniversary of Yury Khmelevskoy and the 50th anniversary of his creative activity. The exhibition presents about 120 of his works created in different years. A special place is occupied by works performed by the master recently and for the first time presented to the audience.

All genres of plastic art by Yury Khmelevskoy are presented in exposition: monuments (in the form of posters and photographs), easel portrait, multi-figure composition, animalistic genre, decorative works, small plastic, reliefs and medals. Yury Khmelevskoy freely works in easel and monumental sculpture, in round plastic and relief, in miniature and carved icon, masterly owns the genre of portrait, multi-figure composition. Such versatility and flexibility in the coverage of genres and themes is a manifestation of the sculptor's creative power.

Plastics of Yury Khmelevskoy is distinguished by the vastness and depth of artistic design, truthfulness in revealing human experiences. He always turns to the innermost in the soul. The author, as it were, delicately, but persistently invites the viewer to talk and contemplate. The fabric of a volumetric narrative is fused in the sculptor's works with a very precise and organic plastic language, with an impeccable sense of proportionality between the scale of the sculpture and the person for whom they were created.

The subject matter of the master's works is diverse. The themes of the beauty of human relationships, family happiness, the joy of childhood, admiration and unity with nature are close to him. Among the variety of topics, two creative "ways" that Yury Khmelevskoy successfully passes: religious and historical ones stand out. Both of these themes have become a deeply felt part of the sculptor's self-consciousness, a form of artistic vision, and the author's ideology.

The religious theme is represented at the exhibition by a large number of sculptures, sculptural groups, reliefs, elaborated in detail and deeply studied in essence, the unifying principle for which is the Orthodox faith, church history and modern life of the Orthodox Church, and the search for truth. Plastically rethinking the iconographic canon, the artist transferred the images of the saints from a plane to a three-dimensional space and created a whole series of impressive images. These works, of course, are the very experience embodied in the material, a religious feeling, which is so important for the sculptor. It seems that this is why Khmelevskoy's images of Orthodox saints and images of church leaders of the past and present are so convincing, canonically frozen in their statuary holiness, and at the same time absolutely alive.

And works on a historical theme are the result of the author's long creative reflections on the classical historical heritage of Russia, on the fate of its public figures, representatives of science, culture, literature and art. It is noteworthy that among them a special place is occupied by sculptural portraits of famous personalities of Abramtsevo.

We invite you to admire the works of Yury Khmelevskoy, to see images that inspire a wonderful sculptor, our fellow countryman, at our exhibition, which will run from July 17 to August 16, 2020.

Yuri Khmelevskoy was born on June 8, 1945 in the city of Strunino, Vladimir region. Since 1971, the sculptor has been living with his family in the city of Khotkovo. Graduated from the department of artistic bone processing of the Abramtsevo art and industrial school named after Viktor Vasnetsov (1965), Faculty of Industrial Art, Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art named after Sergey Stroganov (1970). He taught special disciplines - sculpture, drawing and composition - at the Abramtsevo School of Industrial Art at the Department of Artistic Bone Processing (1971-1979). He worked as a sculptor at the Moscow Regional Association of the All-Russian Union of Agricultural Companies "SKHR" (since 1971). The monumental works he created adorn the streets and squares of many cities in Russia, including: Moscow, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Tula, Ostashkov, Gomel, Krasny Sulin, Voskresensk, Balashikha, Khotkovo, Solnechnogorsk and others.

Yury Khmelevskoy is a constant participant in professional art exhibitions (since 1970). Member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation (since 1975). In 2007, Yury Khmelevsky was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation". He was awarded the Gold and Silver medals of the Union of Artists of Russia (2015 and 2016), the medal "For Valiant Labor" (2015). The works of Yury Khmelevsky are in the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve, Sergiev Posad State Historical and Art Museum-Reserve, the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO", the fund of the Ministry of Culture, the Bronze Miracle Gallery, the Aleksandrovsky Art Museum, the Belgorod Art Museum, and in private collections in Russia and abroad.

The exhibition will run until August 16.

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Exhibition “Witnesses of Time”

A truly talented artist is the chronicler of the time to which he belongs. And the more distinctly the era appears in the picture, drawing, poster, the higher the value of the artist. The exhibition “Witnesses of Time” is a genuine art document of the 1940s.

The exhibition presents easel works by Boris Prorokov, Alexander Deineka, Nikolay Romadin, Dementy Shmarinov, Alexander Bogdanov, Konstantin Finogenov, Vera Orlova - from the collection of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve.

Boris Prorokov (1911-1972) - Soviet artist, master of satire and propaganda and political graphics. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. People's Artist of the USSR. Laureate of the Lenin and two Stalin prizes of the third degree. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks since 1945. In the Abramtsevo Village of Artists, Prorokov settled in 1968. During the Great Patriotic War he was an artist of the Main Directorate of Political Propaganda of the Navy in the Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific Fleets. He created drawings for front-line printing and leaflets that were dropped from aircraft over enemy territory. Passed the hard way from Finland, the Baltic States, Novorossiysk, Berlin to the Far East. He took part in the heroic defense of the Hanko Peninsula and in the battles for Novorossiysk.

After the war Prorokov created 19 thematic series - mainly anti-war. This work of the artist is akin to a feat. He was shell-shocked at the end of the war, in the post-war years he bravely overcame pain and worked. “Agitation passion” did not leave Prorokov, it demanded a search for new plastic forms.

In the series “This must not happen again!” (1961, awarded the Lenin Prize) worked with space. He did not work speculatively - he removed everything unnecessary. In addition to the contrast of the white field and the dark silhouette, he also introduced volume. The volume is not complete, not round, rather high relief. Refused angles, complex counterposts. Relief strikes the eye from white paper. A similar “effect” in the artist's late Abramtsevo still lifes - in the portraits of flowers. “Gladioli” (1971 )- opens the exhibition “Witnesses of Time” These works sound like a life-affirming chord, along with the military drawings of Prorokov from 1942-1945. “Victory Day. A hard victory, but what a joy it is to stomp on burning Berlin, over which our red banner was flying! One day at dawn in Dairen I saw a green ray of sun. They say it's fortunate. Happiness was already - to stomp in Berlin. This is not just a military victory. This is a victory of reason over madness... For this happiness I am indebted to those who did not make it to Berlin, as an artist - in an even greater debt. That's the main thing. Have you seen the lilies of the valley crumpled by German tanks? ” (Diary entry of Boris Prorokov, 1963). The artist's birthday is May 9.

Alexander Deineka (1899-1969) - Soviet painter. Monumentalist and graphic artist, teacher, professor. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. People's Artist of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labor. Lenin Prize Laureate.

The exhibition presents Deineka's pictorial and graphic sketch “Berlin. Transport is getting better ”(1945, paper, gouache). The artist arrived in Berlin in May 1945. At the same time, he created a number of full-scale works - documentary accurate and at the same time boldly generalized, giving an idea of the aesthetic existence of time.

Nikolay Romadin (1903-1987) - Soviet painter. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. People's Artist of the USSR. Laureate of the Stalin, Lenin and State prizes. He settled in the Abramtsevo Artists' Village in the first half of the 1970s. Romadin is the keeper of the traditions of the classic Russian landscape. At the same time, he is an outstanding artist of the 20th century. All the storms and trials of the century were fully experienced by him. Romadinsky's landscape has become a part of a new aesthetics, the interest in which is not waning today. The exhibition, however, presents the artist's works of a non-landscape genre, which is interesting in itself. For example, “Interior of Senezh” (1943, Whatman paper on cardboard, oil).

“1943. I went to the front as an artist from the newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda”. Alexey Tolstoy put in a word in the editorial office about me. General Andrey Yumashev suggested that I go to the location of the air units. So I got to the Kursk Bulge. The editorial office did not know what to dress me in, and gave me the uniform of a private. When I appeared in this form before the generals, they laughed at me, joked that I could not even directly address them with questions. Of course, they received it very well. I knew Andrey Yumashev even before the war, I was friends with him...

We leave. The front is approaching. First breakdown. Cameras burst on three cars, there is no key to unscrew the nuts. Help ‟Russian ingenuity”. Spent over an hour. It's getting dark ... Along with the night, an alarming mood is approaching... Expectation of the bombing. Dace is bombed every night. The first “Heinkel” is rather low, probably a scout... We got out of the car, lay down in the ditch. A wonderful sight, if not for the thought that people, women, long-suffering women and children are dying somewhere. And why are children now? And there is also a danger for oneself... Hellishly, I want to sleep. Falling asleep...

It's morning already. Moving on. Disguised auto-armored tanks, cannons, etc. are everywhere. Remnants of units are scattered about, giving an impression of demoralizing. They did not go in formation, some with sticks, with colored knapsacks over their shoulders, gloomy, sick. By oneself. There are a lot of them. They drag the nag behind them. Horses and people have been brought to extreme exhaustion... My neighbor gave one Red Army soldier bread, he thanks him indifferently, coldly...

We arrived in the village of Yarishche, the former Shchigrovsky district, described by Turgenev in the Notes of a Hunter. Quite a picturesque village, but the forest and fruit trees have been cut down. The Germans were here for 16 months. Before leaving, all the best buildings were blown up. I went to the sketches. I wrote, but rather poorly. Soon I will go to the airfields... At the airfields I painted several portraits of pilots and nurses. I have preserved the interior, a room in the village of Yarishche, where the army headquarters was. Simple hut. Night etude, alarming." (Diaries of Nikolay Romadin, 1931-1948).

Dementy Shmarinov (1907-1999) - Soviet and Russian graphic artist, illustrator, professor, academician of the USSR Academy of Arts, corresponding member of the GDR Academy of Arts, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree, Lenin Prize and the RF President's Prize in the field of culture and art.

He settled in the Artists' Village at the end of the war, and during the Great Patriotic War he came to Abramtsevo to the dacha of Alexander Paramonov. Then, in 1942, Dementy Shmarinov wrote a number of sketches in which everything is unusual. Technique - oil (for graphics), mood - admiration (for war). These coloristically refined, self-contained, etude free works are presented at the exhibition. In “Autumn Evening” (1942, oil on canvas), however, anxiety appears - a sign of the times.

Alexander Bogdanov (1908-1989) - Soviet painter and draftsman. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. His teachers in VKHUTEMAS-VKHUTEIN Ilya Mashkov and Alexander Osmerkin - are vitally and creatively connected with Abramtsev.o The continuity of plastics is perhaps the main criterion for the acquisition of Abramtsevo art collections of the 20th century.

Bogdanov's military work: “Nurse Lena. Evacuation Hospital” (1941-1942, oil on canvas), “Operation in the evacuation hospital” (1941-1942, paper, charcoal pencil) - entered the collection last 2019. They are shown at the exhibition and are important for it because they have a “collective” figurative character.

It is known that during the Great Patriotic War, the EG-2898 hospital was located in the building where the exposition of the 20th century is now presented. Looking at the Bogdanov nurses, and the artist made their portraits in the evacuation hospital on Devichye Pole in Moscow, you understand how fragile, young and beautiful in their courage these holy Russian women were.

Konstantin Finogenov (1902–1989) - Soviet painter and draftsman. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Laureate of the Stalin Prize, second degree. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks since 1947. Resident of the Abramtsevo settlement of artists since the late 1940s.

He was born in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) and in 1943 as a military artist he arrived in the 64th Army of MikhailShumilov, who on January 10, 1943, launched her famous offensive against the grouping of Field Marshal Paulus. Konstantin Finogenov had to go through a lot: after all, his parents lived in the city on which the Nazis brought down so much fire and metal. The artist has put a lot of personal experiences into the works that capture the heroism of the Soviet people in the battle on the Volga.

The exhibition shows his drawing “Defeated Berlin” (1945, lead pencil on paper). Finogenov is a student of Ilya Mashkov. In 1918 he studied for several months in his private studio in Moscow, and these classes, although short-lived, did not pass without leaving a trace. The master later recalled how he drew and wrote under the guidance of this master, how nature was thoroughly studied and studied by the studio students. Vividly perceiving everything around him, the artist gave the full-scale drawing “Defeated Berlin” an element of incompleteness: as if it continues - already plastically - to happen, which has stopped in time.

Vera Orlova (1904-1993) - Soviet painter and graphic artist. She has lived in the Artists' Village Novo-Abramtsevo since the late 1940s. Researchers of Orlova's work note that her original artistic qualities are revealed in the works of an “intimate” genre: landscape, portrait. Abramtsevo landscape became her favorite art form. Together with her husband Konstantin Finogenov, she came back to the pre-war Abramtsevo. Perhaps, “Boy” (1940, oil on canvas), shown at the exhibition, has “Abramtsevo Origin”.

A vivid and realistic portrait of the boy meets the aesthetics of the time and is symbolic. Childhood, joy, spontaneity - everything will be trampled upon by the war. The Great Victory in May 1945 returned hope to humanity.

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Exhibition of Works by Alexander Berezin “Sketches of Life. Graphics”

Exhibition period: August 21 - September 20, 2020

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

On August 21, 2020 an exhibition of works by Alexander Berezin “Sketches of Life. Graphics” dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the master, opened in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

Alexander Berezin is an artist with a bright and interesting destiny; he works in the genres of landscape, still life, and portrait. He was born in 1935 in Kharkov. But Abramtsevo became the birthplace of his talent. The childhood of the future artist fell on the years of the Great Patriotic War, which left an indelible mark on the soul of little Sasha. At the front, his father died, and he and his mother and younger children had to endure all the horrors of the German occupation, the difficulties and disasters of a life ravaged by the war.

Since March 1948 Alexander Berezin lived in Abramtsevo with his aunt Ekaterina Shevchenko. She worked as a senior nurse at the EG 2898 military hospital, which was located on the territory of the Abramtsevo museum and sanatorium.

After the war, the rest house that had existed since 1932 returned to Abramtsevo. Ekaterina Yakovlevna stayed here to work as a senior nurse. They lived in a communal apartment, in a two-story wooden house for employees, built right on the territory of the estate. Due to the war, Alexander could not start studying in time, and at the age of twelve he entered the second grade of the Khotkovo seven-year evening school. And he managed to fulfill the instructions of the management of the sanatorium - for example, he played movies in the local cinema for vacationers. Living near the village of Artists Alexander Berezin met the outstanding masters of art - Pavel Radimov, Igor Grabar, Dementiy Shmarinov, Alexey Orlov. He was lucky enough to observe the work of the sculptor Vera Mukhina. All this pushed the young man to creativity.

Since 1963, A.lexander Berezin worked as an artist-painter in the Zagorsk art-production workshop, with which he collaborated almost all his creative life. The 1960s-80s were the time of his creative take-off, he was one of the leading masters of the Moscow region.

During these years Alexander Berezin made creative trips to the North of Russia, the Urals, Siberia, from which he returned with a lot of sketches and ready-made paintings. The creative trips resulted in a series of watercolors “Land of Vologda ” and “Kuzbass”.

Alexander Berezin is a participant of many all-Russian, regional and Moscow exhibitions. The current exhibition features more than 150 graphic works of the master from the author's collection.

The exhibition will run until September 20, 2020.

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Exhibition “Tales by Alexander Pushkin”

Exhibition period: March 6 – April 5, 2020

Location: Polenov's Dacha

March 6, 2020 the exhibition “Tales by Alexander Pushkin”, which presents illustrations by artists from the collection of the National Pushkin Museum opens in the Polenov's dacha of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve.

Members of the Mamontov's (Abramtsevo) Circle have repeatedly appealed to the works by the “Sun of Russian poetry”. In 2014, a joint museum exhibition “Pushkin in the Works of Abramtsevo Artists” with two Pushkin museums - the National Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg) and the State Museum of Alexander Pushkin (Moscow) was held in Abramtsevo. A continuation of this project is the current exchange of exhibitions: during the exhibition in Polenov's Dacha the exposition “Night Fairy Tale” from the Abramtsevo collection opens its doors to visitors.

The exhibition is addressed primarily to children. It presents the works of talented artists: Ivan Bilibin, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Tatiana Mavrina, Vladimir Milashevsky, Viktor Panin, Oskar Klever, Nelli Polyakova, who lead us from fairy tale to fairy tale, from plot to plot: “The Tale of the Priest and his Workman Balda”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and fish”... Acquaintance with the poet's tales begins with watching the animated film “At the Seaside”.

We hope that visitors, regardless of their age, will discover the magical world of Pushkin's tales, and new generations of readers and spectators will be waiting for a meeting with the works of the greatest poet.

Exhibition “Alexander Drozdovsky. Painting, Art Metal. Stanislav Drozdovsky. Graphics, Stone Engraving”

Exhibition period: February 1 — March 9, 2020

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

February 3, 2020 an exhibition of the Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Drozdovsky opens in the halls of the Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. The exhibition is dedicated to the double anniversary: in 2020, the artist turns 75, and marks the 45th anniversary of his creative activity.

The retrospective exhibition presents more than 100 works in various techniques and genres. Painting, sculpture, cloisonne enamel, medal art, forged plastic - Alexander Drozdovsky equally confidently owns all these techniques, delighting the viewer with a magnificent sense of material and impeccable craftsmanship.

Alexander Drozdovsky is a well-known master of decorative and applied art and a talented teacher, deservedly enjoying the respect and love of many generations of students of the Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial College named after Viktor Vasnetsov (the branch of the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after Sergey Stroganov). For 45 years he has trained a galaxy of brilliant metal artists.

Until the mid-1990s, Alexander Drozdovsky mainly worked in miniature plastic. His medals, plaques and reliefs dedicated to the prominent personalities are distinguished by the originality of the composition and at the same time - portrait similarity, which makes the image recognizable. Since the mid-90s, Alexander Drozdovsky has been successfully working in the cloisonne enamel technique, participating in exhibitions and transferring experience to students. He managed to create, perhaps the most important and most valuable thing in the artist’s life - his own direction, which at first glance accurately distinguishes it from the variety of other authors working in this technique.

The master began experimenting with enamels in the late 70s, gradually moving on to creating serious independent works. In 1986, the specialty “Enamel Work” was initiated by Alexander Drozdovsky into the curriculum of the Abramtsevo College. Having creatively mastered the traditional artistic techniques of Russian enamel art, Alexander Drozdovsky developed an individual visual language and his own aesthetics.

The master generously transfers to his students everything that he knows and can do. He manages to create a free creative atmosphere around him, forming a special “Abramtsevo style” with his inherent energy of search and fidelity to artistic truth.

The master’s paintings leave an amazing impression - the paintings of Alexander Drozdovsky are simultaneously brightly decorative and deeply lyrical, even confessional.

A separate section of the exhibition is the works of Stanislav Drozdovsky.

Two missions lived in Stanislav Drozdovsky as an artist and a philologist. He graduated with honors from Abramtsevo College, then the faculty of foreign languages of Sholokhov University. He was engaged in teaching, wrote poetry and parables, made interesting, talented graphics, worked on metal and stone. Stanislav obtained very concise and accurate work: a minimum of expressive means, a maximum of content and nothing more. He knew how to do what few people were given, and was endowed with the need to create, but he exhibited very rarely. Publicity was also perceived as an unnecessary detail: it was enough that the thing was born and accomplished.

Being a bright personality, Stanislav Drozdovsky created his own world, where the most ordinary things turned into something unique and magical, and plain-looking cobblestones flourished, or, as they used to say, flourished with wonderful carved patterns. The Moscow region nature has always been a source of inspiration for Drozdovsky Jr. - he loved the forest very much, he did not part with the sketchbook. Friends and colleagues recall that Stas Drozdovsky had a rare gift to listen and hear a person, living with him joy and pain. And it was also an act of creativity.

The artist invests part of himself in the works that he creates. They remain with us after he leaves for another world - materialized memory, messages to contemporaries and descendants. Loss is irreplaceable, but memory is alive.

The exposition of the works by Stas Drozdovky included his graphic sheets, works in the technique of stone engraving, named as “the petroglyphs”.

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Exhibition “Countries and Travels”

Exhibition period: December 25, 2019 – March 1, 2020

Location: Polenov's Dacha

On New Year's Eve, an exhibition, which tells about travels, opens in Polenov's dacha of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve. Travels were an integral part of the life of the Mamontovs and their artist friends. “At times, I really want to break out and fly around the wide world,” wrote Vasily Polenov.

Savva Mamontov loved travelling, understood its meaning and considered the best vacation for himself. Both he and his wife Elizaveta prepared for these trips, took notes, created unique guides. At the exhibition you can see one of these documents - the diary of 17-year-old Liza Sapozhnikova, the future wife of Savva Mamontov, which she kept during a trip to Europe in 1864.

Mamontov often took artists to his trips. They enthusiastically studied the art of Western Europe while travelling.

The exhibition presents landscape sketches by Vasily Polenov, Mikhail Nesterov, Apollinary Vasnetsov and other artists made on trips to Russia and Western Europe, as well as travel photos, souvenirs, letters and documents.

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Exhibition “Svetlana and Natalya Palion. Painting”

Exhibition period: December 20, 2019 - January 26, 2020

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

December 20, 2019 a new exhibition opened in the Arts and Crafts Department of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve. On the eve of the New Year - the most magical and coveted holiday of our calendar, we invite art lovers and connoisseurs to meet with the original works of Natalya and Svetlana Palion.

The paintings of these artists have an amazing property - they give an anticipation of a miracle, a sense of a fairy tale and an indispensable fulfillment of a cherished dream. And in them, the authors conduct a dialogue with the audience about feelings, love, life values, the transience of time ... and urge you to see joy in every day you live. The artists called their current exhibition - one for two - “The Joy of Being”.

In the works of Natalya and Svetlana Palion, reality comes to life - thin and slightly weightless, with foggy dreams and curious plots, with deep subtext, sometimes in the form of images combining echoes of dreams and dreams, vivid fantasies, transparent metaphors and bizarre allegories. The artists expressed the purpose of their work in one of the interviews: “To inspire, to give a good mood and to bring bright colors to everyday life. ”Natalya and Svetlana Palion have already come a certain way in the search for their own artistic manner, experimenting with line, color, “trying on” various styles of the past, moving from especially beloved decorative painting, “interior” paintings to self-sufficient paintings. They successfully work in various techniques, in their arsenal - oil, pastel, watercolor, graphics, collage. One of the last “artistic technical” hobbies is layered acrylic painting. In genres, they also do not limit themselves: they write still lifes, landscapes, portraits. Their works are distinguished by an impeccable color scheme, a virtuoso combination of texture and line. And today, artists continue to search for those forms of visual expressiveness that correspond to their understanding and vision of art.

Natalya and Svetlana Palion have a single life and creative path. They are twin sisters, born in 1974 in the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk region. They have been painting since early childhood, together they decided that painting is their fate. It is believed that the talent was passed on to them from their father, a skillful graphic designer and monumentalist.

Natalya and Svetlana graduated with honors from the College in Veliky Novgorod with a degree in porcelain painting (1993), then graduated from the Art Painting Department of the Moscow Art College of Applied Arts (1998). Then they were engaged in the famous private art studio of Alexander Velichko, perfecting painting and composition.

The Palion sisters recall that they were even very afraid to marry, so as not to separate, but were fortunate enough to meet the twin brothers who became their husbands. Now both families happily and amicably live in the same house in Sergiev Posad, raise four children.

Participate in professional art exhibitions since 2002. They are residents of the ArtBaz Gallery. They are engaged in teaching, participate in festivals of arts and crafts, and painting symposia. Their works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Natalya and Svetlana write in the same workshop, and although the sisters still have a common artistic vision, now each of them works separately. And still, the sister is the chief expert and adviser in art, in which there is no place for longing and despondency, but there is a joy of being and a desire to share this joy.

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Exhibition “Russia Is in My Heart...”

Exhibition period: November 22 – December 15, 2019

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str, Khotkovo)

An exhibition of works by Nikolay Davydov, a famous painter, honored artist of the Russian Federation, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, opened on November 22, 2019 in the department of Art and Crafts of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve. The exhibition presents works from the author's collection.

Nikolay Davydov was born in 1951 in the village Olshanka, Odessa region. In school, he lived with his parents in the Kemerovo region. In their house were genuine works of such masters as Vasiliy Meshkov, Konstantin Korovin, Sergey Vinogradov, Vasily Baksheev, Sergey Gerasimov, Vitold Bialynitsky-Birulya. A relative of the family was Vasily Meshkov (1893–1963) - an outstanding painter, people's artist of the RSFSR, a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He bequeathed his collection to the family. And, probably, this determined the life path of Nikolay Davydov.

He combines his own creativity with organizational activities to popularize Tver art in various regions of Russia and abroad (in Bulgaria, China, Germany). Nikolay Davydov is the organizer and creative director of the first plein air of Tver artists in the village Moshenskoye in Novgorod region in 2003, which laid the foundation for the municipal art gallery; in 2008 - one of the organizers of the International Plein Air and the International Exhibition “Monuments of the Fatherland”, held in Tver and the Tver Region. He was also the artistic director of the International Plein Air in Skopje (Macedonia) in 2002, the joint plein air of the Slavic peoples. He is one of the organizers of traditional winter plein airs in the Komi Republic. In 2014 and 2016, his creative trips to Athos (Greece) took place.

Solo exhibitions of the artist, in total more than 40, took place, in particular, in the Vyshny Volochyok in 1992, 2006, 2008; in Tver in 1985, 1997, 2003 (together with V.I. Volkov), 2005, 2010; in Minsk and Yaroslavl in 2004; in Moscow in the Kremlin in 2005 and 2015; at the Academy of Arts in 2007; at the Central House of Artists and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2011; abroad - in Sofia, Thessaloniki, Berlin, London, Dublin. The artist’s works are in the Togliatti Art Gallery, the National Museum of the Komi Republic, the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk), the Mogilev Regional Art Museum and the Bobruisk Art Museum (Belarus).

For his active creative and exhibition activities, the artist was awarded a bishop's diploma and a medal "For the sacrificial service to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior" and other medals and diplomas.

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Exhibition «The Group “Nine”»

Exhibition period: November 2 – December 1, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

«The Group “Nine”» is a faction of young reformers formed within the Moscow Union of Artists in the late 1950s. Enthusiastic about the French school of painting, artists, contrary to the general line in the fine arts adopted in those years, adapted Cezannism, following the path of the masters of the Jack of Diamonds union. Affirming the diversity of creative individuals, the artist’s right to solve exclusively professional painting tasks in Soviet art, to search for new forms to express his time, they, in fact, determined a new vector of realistic painting in Russian art of the second half of the 20th century.

A particular manifestation of the plastic searches of artists in the field of traditional easel painting was the Moscow "Exhibition of Nine" in 1961. Its participants are Leonid Berlin, Natalia Egorshina, Maria Favorskaya, Nikolay Andronov, Mikhail Nikonov, Boris Birger, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Ivanov, Kirill Mordovin.

For objective reasons, the Abramtsevo project «The Group “Nine”» cannot recreate the exhibition of 1961. The aim of the organizers of this exhibition is to recall the participants of “Nine” and to demonstrate their canvaces in a certain retrospective. April 30, 2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the leader of “The Group of Nine”, a great Russian artist Nikolay Andronov. The exhibition is dedicated to this date.

The exhibition displays works from the collections of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, the Museum “New Jerusalem”, the IN ARTIBUS Foundation, and private collections.

Exhibition of Ceramics “Alexandra Stvora. My World”

Exhibition period: October 11 – November 17, 2019

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str, Khotkovo)

October 11, an exhibition of ceramics by the artist Alexandra Stvora opens in the halls of the Arts and Crafts Department of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve.

The new exhibition reveals to our viewers a vibrant and surprisingly diverse world of ceramics. Millennia pass, the shapes of objects change, the assortment line expands, but people still strive to admire items that keep the warmth of the artist’s hands, each time marveling at metamorphoses in clay. To metamorphoses that reflect the cultural processes and creative searches of today.

At the current exhibition, the world of ceramics is presented by the Moscow ceramic artist - Alexandra Stvora. She is spiritually and emotionally connected with Abramtsevo and Khotkovo - Alexandra received her art education at the Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College, which she graduated in 1995. She dedicates the current exhibition in Khotkovo to her teachers with deep gratitude and appreciation. Alexandra Stvora studied in the stone, bone and wood department, but ceramics became the main hobby of her life. Her mother, Galina Korzina, was an outstanding ceramic artist, and Alexandra from an early age grew up in a creative atmosphere where there was a reverent attitude towards ceramics.

Upon graduation, Alexandra Stvora actively works in the creative groups of the Experimental Creative and Production Combine “Vorontsovo” of the Union of Artists of Russia. The main choice and main passion of Alexandra among the variety and wide possibilities of the author's expression in ceramics was the pottery technique. Step by step, she learnt the secrets and mysteries of this ancient technique that existed at the intersection of craft and art. Brilliantly mastering the potter’s wheel, Alexandra creates vibrant dynamic decorative sculptural images, “twists”, “designs” spectacular and surprisingly harmonious forms. Her work is distinguished by a bright personality and high professionalism.

Over time, she found her own pictorial language, gained complete freedom of expression in creating a poetic image of wildlife.

Animalism is her favorite genre in which Alexandra creates clean, childishly unprotected images of animals and birds, often exotic, imbued with kindness and spontaneity. She decorates them with paintings, in which she is infinitely diverse and artistic: she uses ethnic motifs, works interestingly with ornaments, and impresses with a combination of colors that emphasize the features of the plastic image. Therefore, in some of Alexandra’s works there is a connection with the national tradition, in others she is absolutely free and masterfully experimenting with color, shape, texture. Both that, and another is interesting and really talented.

Alexandra Stvora is one of the leading Moscow ceramic artists, she is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (since 1999) and the Union of Artists of Russia (since 2005). She is a member of the commission on decorative and applied arts, as well as the youth and exposition commissions of the Union of Artists of Russia, and is carrying out a large public work. Alexandra's works are marked with a diploma and gratitude from the Russian Academy of Arts, diplomas of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Since 2005, Alexandra Stvora regularly participates in the international open-air “Art-Zhizhal” (Belarus), in the international ceramic symposium in the Oposhnya village (Ukraine), in the All-Russian ceramic symposium, which took place for several years in the city of Urzhum, Kirov Region. Holds master classes in pottery.

Alexandrra Stvora is an active participant in professional art exhibitions: Moscow, All-Russian, international, group and personal.

The works are stored in the collections of the Mogilev Regional Art Museum named after Pavel Maslenikov (Belarus), National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery (Oposhnia settlement, Ukraine), Vyatka Art Museum named after Viktor and Apollinariy Vasnetsov and Memorial Complex of Glory named after Akhmat Kadyrov (Grozny, Chechen Republic).

The exhibition presents nearly 100 works by Alexandra Stvora. The exhibition runs till November 17, 2019.

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Exhibition “Feodor Chaliapin and Savva Mamontov. Photos from the Collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

Exhibition period: October 25 – November 1, 2019

Location: Kirov Regional Scientific Library named after A.I. Herzen

Exhibition “Feodor Chaliapin and Savva Mamontov. Photos from the collection of the Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo" opens in Kirov on October 25. The exhibition shows photos telling about the creative path of the great Russian singer, about his connections with the Mamontov's (Abramtsevo) Artistic Circle. It is no accident that this exhibition is being shown on Vyatka land and is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Vyatka Chaliapin Society. Parents of Chaliapin were originally from Vyatka, whose ancient land was famous for its good voices for church singing, and the Vyatka basses were considered unsurpassed. The birth of Chaliapin as a great artist is associated with Savva Mamontov and the Russian Private Opera created by him.

The meeting of Chaliapin with Mamontov, who was not only a major entrepreneur and patron of arts, but also an artistically gifted person, a music connoisseur who had a wonderful voice, played a huge role in the singer's life. In the spring of 1896 Savva Mamontov invited Chaliapin to perform in the summer season with the troupe of his theater at the Nizhniy Novgorod Fair. The basic principle of the Mamontov's Theatre: “You need to sing while playing” - fully complied the talent of Feodor Chaliapin.

For three years of work at the Mamontov's Theatre, Feodor Chaliapin created most of his main repertoire - nineteen parties. Fifteen of them are parts of the Russian repertoire. The exhibition presents photos of Chaliapin in the images of Melnik, Salieri, Boris Godunov, Holofernes, Ivan the Terrible. In the process of preparing his images, Feodor Chaliapin worked, in fact, as a painter. The singer assigned painting an important place in his work after the great Russian drama. Artists, in particular Valentin Serov, Vasily Polenov, Mikhail Vrubel, Konstantin Korovin, helped him in preparing many parties - their photos can also be seen at the exhibition.

A series of vivid images of Chaliapin was created at the beginning of the 20th century by the famous photographer Miron Sherling (1880–1958). He worked in the technique of photography, had a great sense of composition, his portraits are expressive and dramatic. At the exhibition there is Chaliapin starring Mephistopheles, Miller, Salieri, Boris Godunov and others. Photos are accompanied by texts from memoirs telling about how many images of Feodor Chaliapin appeared.

The exhibition runs from October 25 to November 1, 2019 in the Great Reading Room of Kirov Regional Scientific Library named after A.I. Herzen.

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Exhibition “Gogol's Faces”. To the 210th anniversary of the birth of the writer”

Exhibition period: September 26 – October 27, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

Exhibition presents engravings, drawings, watercolors from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and from private collections.

This exhibition “Gogol's Faces” is an attempt to be closer to the genius of Nikolay Gogol. It seems that there are some reasons. Gogol came to the Abramtsevo estate to visit the Aksakovs in 1849 and in 1851. In the living room of the old house he read the first chapter of the second volume of “Dead Souls”. The Abramtsevo legend says, he walked in the old park and was calm.

A great deal has changed. But already in the Museum period the so-called Gogol section with his portraits and illustrations to his works was formed in the Abramtsevo collection. This material provided the basis of the exhibition.

It all starts with engraving from the work of Alexey Venetsianov (1834), where Gogol is presented in the prime of life, with some likeness of Khlestakov, decorated in the manner of a cock with an intricate crest or coca. We emphasize this similarity with illustrations by Nikolay Kuzmin and by Mikhail Rudakov to the "Examiner". The brilliant comedy is not alone, it is together with illustrations for “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, “Mirgorod”, “Petersburg Stories” by Piotr Sokolov, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Vitaly Goryaev, Sergey Alimov.

The descriptions of Gogol's appearance and his portraits of different times, that have come down to us, are also striking with the lack of unity in this person. And if the writer and talent are not yet visible in Venetsianov’s work, then in portraits of Gogol in the mature age (hairstyle, small mustache, goatee), too many things look at us at once.

This is the time of "Dead Souls" and "Overcoat." Other times - other artists? Yes: Alexander Agin, a contemporary of the writer, Vladimir Makovsky, Valentin Serov, Alexey Kravchenko. And “No”: we are again in the grip of the works by Vitaly Goryaev, Sergey Alimov; unexpected - Kirill Mamonov (Gogol according to Daniil Kharms), Vladimir Anisimov (Gogol according to Vikenty Veresaev).

What does the exhibition come to an end? Watercolor work by Vitaly Goryaev "In memory of Alexander Ivanov." Why? Rome, friendship, the same degree of dedication to art, the same super-high level of art. But also because figuratively-plastic work is addressed to those secret depths of the human soul, where the shadows of other worlds pass, like the bright shadows of nameless and soundless ships. This work is about the Miracle, which is most suited to the surreal world of Gogol.

Exhibition “Metamorphoses in Wood”. Artists Rashid and Inessa the Azbukhanovs””

Exhibition period: May 24 - June 30, 2019

Location: Arts and Crafts Department

May 18, 2019 the unique exhibition “Metamorphoses in Wood”. Artists Rashid and Inessa Azbukhanov” began its work in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, whose alma-mater is Abramtsevo artistic and industrial college named after Viktor Vasnetsov. Works of different times from the author's and from private collections are presented there.

The Azbukhanovs are the Honored Artists of Russia, Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts, Laureates of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Field of Culture in 2013 for the project “Revival of the Carved Icon”.

Their work is a combination of unique talent, deep knowledge of history, respect for the traditions of Russian and world art. They are among the most talented and successful authors working in the woodcarving technique.

In the works of Inessa and Rashid Azbukhanov there are two equivalent directions - a carved icon and geometric compositions. Both directions coexist without denying each other, but become the means of comprehending the world in different plastic imagery. Both of these areas are presented in the exposition of the current exhibition.

Exhibition runs till June 30, 2019.

Address: 23 Kooperativnaya Street, Khotkovo, Sergiev Posad District, Moscow Region, 141370

Information: 8 (496) 543-07-67, 8 (916) 492-08-20.

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Exhibition “The Bogatyr From Abramtsevo. To the 150th Anniversary From the Birth Of Andrey Mamontov (1869-1981)”

Exhibition period: May 24 – June 16, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

From May 24 to June 16, 2019 an exhibition devoted to the 150th anniversary from the birth of the second son of the Mamontovs' family Andrey, will be held in Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. The name of the exhibition “The Bogatyr from Abramtsevo” is explained by the history of painting “The Bogatyrs” by Viktor Vasnetsov, on which he has worked in Abramtsevo. It is known that the young Andrey Mamontov (surnamed by his family as Dryusha) posed for the youngest bogatyr Alyosha Popovich.

Andrey Mamontov has lived a short life – 21 years. He was born a weakly and infirm child, and factually Elizaveta Grigorievna thanks to her everyday attendance saved him. Precisely because Andrey she had to stay in Italy with her children during winter periods of time. Very early the talent of the artist was developed and he enrolled for the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the department of Architecture, which he graduated from 1890. He together with his mother Elizaveta and the artist Elena Polenova factually was one of founders of joinery and pottery workshops in Abramtsevo.

Viktor Vasnetsov invited Andrey Mamontov after graduating from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture to participate in the painting of St. Vladimir's Cathedral and tasked him with ornaments. The result had exceeded all expectations: Viktor Vasnetsov said, that there were “a lot of beauty and originality” in the work of young artist. Unfortunately, these ornaments were the only serious work by Andrey Mamontov. He had caught a strong chill in a cold cathedral, resulting in the serious kidney disease. They could not save him. Andrey Mamontov was buried in Abramtsevo, in the Chapel, designed by Viktor Vasnetsov, near the Church of the Savior. The chapel was decorated by ornaments based on sketches by Andrey Mamontov.

Despite his short life, he left the rich heritage. These are his numerous sketches, teaching drawings, that helped us to make this individual exhibition. The most of his works were kept in the vaults and have never been exhibited, but the jubilee gives the opportunity to look in the unknown pages of history of the Mamontov's (Abramtsevo) artistic circle.

Exhibition “The Round Table. The Faculty of Stage Design of GITIS”

Exhibition period: April 26 – May 19, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

An exhibition presents creative works of students of the faculty of stage design of the largest in Europe Institute – GITIS (the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts). This is one of the leading educational theatre institutions in Russia with the oldest traditions, which at this time introduces visitors to its young artists. Exhibition is held as a part of the Year of Theatre in Russia and is aimed to promote the theatre art.

The modern Russian theatre presents many innovative projects, that can surprise any audience, where even the productions of famous classical works can be distinguished by their incisiveness, courage and ultimatism. In this regard, students of GITIS present us the examples of works, art quality of which combines both tradition and creative freedom. Here you can see that the world of theatre is a special kind of art, which a theatre artist creates.

It is not surprise at all that Abramtsevo became the place of exposition of such-like experimental creativity of the young generation. Surely, Abramtsevo is rich with its theatrical traditions. Thanks to Sergey Aksakov the first anniversary celebration in honour of his friend, the great actor Mikhail Shchepkin once was held. Celebrated today the Year of Theatre is intended to continue the work, which was began by Sergey Aksakov in Russia, hereby more raising and ennobling the fine work of the artist. And in the Abramtsevo Artistic Circle and Russian Private Opera by Savva Mamontov a new school of theatrical decoration and costume was born; the scenic revolution has been planned, which the native theatre experienced in the 20th century. Theatrical projects fully revealed the creative and organizational abilities of Savva Mamontov. He especially supported and developed young stage talents. And thanks to the Mamontov's Circle a talent of Feodor Chaliapin blossomed.

Exhibition “Falling Stars. Tatiana Selvinskaya and Her Students”

Exhibition period: March 29 – April 21, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

In the Year of the Theatre the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” prepares some exhibition projects, one of which is named “Falling Stars. Tatiana Selvinskaya and Her Students”. It will be open on the March 29 at 4.00 p.m.

At the International Ceremony named by Konstantin Stanislavskiy to Tatiana Selvinskaya a theatrical designer Yuriy Kharikov said: “... Two mysterious words – Tata Selvinskaya. This sounds like a name of star.... In essence, Tatiana Ilinichna Selvinskaya is such person. She could not only an enormous talent in our theatrical culture, but for many years brought up the whole cast of remarkable artists – stars of native artists”.

“Falling Stars” is the exhibition of works by Tatiana Selvinskaya and her students, mainly theatrical designers.

About Tatiana Selvinskaya: was born in 1927 in the family of poet Ilya Selvinskiy. The student of Robert Falk, Alexander Tishler, Mikhail Kurilko. In the world of thatre she is a legend. Designed about 200 performances “from Odessa to Magadan”. Among her capital works, there are “Attractions” (the Lencom Theatre, 1966), “The Wolves and the Sheep” (the Pyotr Fomenko's Workshop Theatre, 1992), “Guilty Without Guilt” and “Cute Liar” (Academoc Theatre named after Evgeniy Vakhtangov, 1993, 1994), “Rich Brides”, “Polianna”, “The Princess of the Dream” (RAMT, 1994, 1995, 1996), “Maria Stuart”, “Catherine the Great”, “Mistress into Maid” (Ermolova Moscow Theatre, 1996, 1998), “Lady Shakespeare” (Nikindom, the first professional theatre, 2011) and others. Created a whole scenography trend, also as known as “The Selvinkaya School”).

The project involves the students of Selvinskaya: K. Shimanovskaya, A. Melik-Sarkisyan, T. Spasolomkaya, I. Shumilov, E. Senatova, I. Balashevich, A. Pligin, O. Vakulin, G. Golovchenko, A. Kislitsina, N. Marchenko, V. Smelkov, I. Chetverkov, O. Malyagina, M. Zotova, L. Evmeshkina, E. Kornilova, L. Chertova, N. Vasilieva. They are all theatrical designers and simply talented people, who found their development in painting thanks to Selvinskaya.

This is not surprising – she herself is a passionate easel and an original painter. Abramtsevo spectator remembers the exhibition of her works “The Games Over the Years”, which was held a year ago. Power of colour, imaginative dissimilarity misled public: “Is it the painting of 2017? Pardon! Does it really to paint in 90?”

Our exhibition presents sketches, layouts, theatrical decorations and easel works of the artists. Participants of the projects are 19. Correctly – 20 together with her, Iconic.

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Exhibition “Two Snow Maidens”

Exhibition period: December 21, 2018 – March 10, 2019

Location: Polenov's Dacha

The exhibition introduces visitors to the history of a fairy-tale “The Snow Maiden” by Alexander Ostrovskiy which was performed by Savva Mamontov and Konstantin Stanislavskiy. First performances in the New Year days in 1882, in Moscow house of Savva Mamontov were designed by Viktor Vasnetsov; later on the basis of Vasnetsov's artistic design the opera by Nikolay Rimskiy-Korsakov was staged on the Russian Private Opera. In home performances Viktor Vasnetsov played a role of Ded Moroz (Father Frost). In 1900 visitors saw the play directed by Konstantin Stanislavskiy on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. Designer of the performance was Viktor Simov, formely working in Mamontov's theatre. This brings together two performances in one exhibition space.

Exhibition presents sketches of costumes and decorations by Viktor Vasnetsov for the performance by Savva Mamontov from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, sketches by Viktor Simov fot the performance by Konstantin Stanislavskiy and photos. Moreover, some costumes, in which such prominent actors as Olga Knipper-Chekhova, Maria Andreeva, Maria Lilina, Vasiliy Kachalov and others were dressed, have been remarkably preserved. Costumes, theatre requisite – paddles, smoothers, boxes, horns – were brought from the northern villages by Konstantin Stanislavskiy in the end of the 19th century. These items are provided by the Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre. Objects from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Hunting and Fishing, such as stuffed birds and animals, which Stanislavskiy used in his performance in order to show the world of nature in which the Snow Maiden lived, give more color to the exhibition.

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Exhibition “Vrubel. Lermontov. Tarkhani”

Exhibition period: October 27 – December 15, 2018

Location: Polenov's Dacha

October 27, 2018 the opening of exhibition “Vrubel. Lermontov. Tarkhany” was held in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. This is a joint project of two museums - “Tarkhany” and “Abramtsevo”, presenting the creative intersections of two genius persons – an artist and a poet – Mikhail Vrubel and Mikhail Lermontov.

Lermontov was one of the most beloved poets of Mikhail Vrubel. The artist knew by heart many of Leromontov’s poems, including the poem “Demon”, and liked to recite them in his friendly environment.

In 1891 Mikhail Vrubel among the other artists took part in decoration of the jubilee collection of works by Lermontov. He created a whole series of illustrations, which are presented at our exhibition as fax copies of 1964.

In the 1880s Mikhail Vrubel began to illustrate works by Lermontov; and the watercolors “Kirebeevich” is presented at the exhibition.

Exposition includes about 70 exhibits. From Abramtsevo there are some famous original sketches to the painting “The Demon Downcast” (1901), illustrations to Mikhail Lermontov's «The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov” by Mikhail Vrubel, photos of the participants of Abramtsevo (Mamontov's) artistic circle, in atmosphere of which a talent of Mikhail Vrubel was bloomed.

Some ceramic and sculptural illustrations by Vrubel to characters by Lermontov might seem surprising for visitors. This is a Sea King – the character from a poem “Gifts of Terek” and a Sea Princess from an eponymously-named work. There are some ceramic works by Vrubel from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” in the exhibition. These statues reflect the most important part of creativity of the artist – the ceramics, in which he put a great part of his soul and inspiration.

The exhibition runs till December 15, 2018.

Exhibition “Mikhail Mamontov. The Forgotten Artist”

Exhibition period: September 22 – October 21, 2018

Location: Polenov's Dacha

September 22, 2018 the exhibition “Mikhail Mamontov. The Forgotten Artist” was opened in Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. Nephew of the owner of the Estate, brilliant Savva Mamontov, Mikhail Mamontov graduated Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, took lessons by such ace teachers and Alexander Kiselev and Vasiliy Polenov, was a close friend of Valentin Serov and Ilya Ostroukhov. In the 1900-1910s he was an active participant of art exhibitions “World of Art” and “Union of Russian Artists” in both capitals. Today his works are presented in many museums of Russia and Ukraine: in Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Vyatka, Abramtsevo, Rostov-on-Don, Odessa and Konotop, however his name was long-forgotten. Until recently there was no information about Mikhail Mamontov and his fate.

The research in Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, in the Department of Manuscripts of the State Tretyakov Gallery and in Central Archive of Federal Security Service gave an opportunity to learn about the life of this talented person and his tragic death. Exhibition presents 20 works by the artist from museum and private collections, most of which have never been exhibited. 9 (!) paintings and etudes were found in the family of descendants of a close friend of Mikhail Mamontov – Varvara Ziloti (Guchkova in marriage). One of these works (“Interior”) was found on a shelf of Moscow flat on a bad condition and it was restored. 2 picturesque paintings were found in St. Petersburg, in a family of grandnephew of the artist. Photos, archive documents, personal belongings of the artist (visiting card and several letters) are particularly valuable.

Presentation of an album “M. Mamontoff. The Forgotten Artist” will be held in one of working days of exhibition. The book is written by the senior researcher of the Museum Andrey Gorodnyanskiy coauthored with Mikhail Nekrasov. It tells about fate of artist, his environment and creative life. Rare photos, archive documents, reproductions of his works are presented in the book.

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Exhibition "The Khotkovo School of Bone Carving"

Exhibition period: August 31 – September 30, 2018

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Kooperativnaya 23, Khotkovo, Sergiev Posad district, Moscow region)

August 31, 2018 an exhibition of bone carving works was opened in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

A small town Khotkovo near Moscow is one of the youngest bone carving centres of Russia. This art craftwork was first appeared in Khotkovo in the end of the 1940s. The unique Abramtsevo art college trained artists and masters of bone carving from the first days. Nowdays it is known as Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial College named after Viktor Vasnetsov. The artists, graduates of the College, use all known techniques of artistic processing of a bone brilliantly. And the best artists become teachers of the College. That is why the exhibition was named “The Khotkovo School of Bone Carving”.

At the exhibit it is possible to know almost everything about this amazing art. An exposition presents all areas and techniques of bone carving, such as openwork carving, the precious carving, entail carving, engraved carving, robust carving, light and translucent carving. Visitors can see works of today's carvers and teachers of Artistic College, masters of the Khotkovo manufacture of carved artistic items of the 1970-2000s from the collection of the Museum—Reserve “Abramtsevo”, and works of today's artists of the same manufacture from the collection of factory.

Our exhibition is coincided to the 100th anniversary of the Museum.

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Exhibition “Life in Abramtsevo”

Exhibition period: August 15 – September 16, 2018

Location: Polenov’s Dacha

September 15, 2018 an exhibition “Life in Abratmsevo. Painting. Anastasiya Sokolova, Valeriy Chernoritskiy, Nikita Chernoritskiy, Taisiya Chernoritskaya” was opened in Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

Anastasiya Sokolova and Valeriy Chernoritskiy are the corrsponding members of the Russian Academy of Arts. Their children Nikita and Taisiya are the students of the Moscow Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Moscow Academic Art High School of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Exhibition of artistic family is a fact, that deserves special attention. The Sokolovs – Chernoritskiye live in Abramtsevo Artistic village in summer and autumn. And name of the exhibition was born by this life. Abramtsevo is a place of inspiration and creativity for them.

Valeriy Chernoritskiy is famous by his monumental works, which it is possible to see in Lithuania, Corsica and Umbria. These works are the painting of chapels, which were made together with his wife Nastya Sokolova during 1991 – 2008.

Nikita and Taisiya the Chernoritskiye are the furiously dedicated people to art. “Furiously” is about a temperament. Such quantity of sketches, drawings, picturesque paintings and pencil sketches is possible to see, but not by so young painters.

The artists show the Abramtsevo painting – landscapes, garden still-life, family portraits and portraits of citizens of the village.

Abramtsevo – always new and constant – gives the Sokolovs-Chernoritskiye inspiration to paint! And the motives are the same as for the Mamontovs' friends – artists – flowers and grass. Portraits of contemporaries-neighbors (Taisiya Goryaeva, Alexey Shmarinov, Sergey Alimov, Tom Patterson) depict not an individual plastic arts, but a general Abramtsevo country mood of melancholy and beautiful comfort and calm.

The exhibition invites spectators into the world of chamber, lyrical, calm, colored “the Moscow school” of painting.

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Exhibition of Painting and Graphics by Alexander Berezin

Exhibition period: July 17 – August 19, 2018

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Kooperativnaya 23, Khotkovo, Sergiev Posad district, Moscow region)

July 17, 2018 an exhibition of works by the artist Alexander Berezin began its work in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. He is a painter and a graphic artist; his works are in genres of painting, still-life painting and portrait.

Alexander Berezin was born in May 27, 1935 in Kharkov. During the years of the Great Patriotic War he had experienced all the horrors of occupation. His father died at the front, his mother died too, and a little child got into an orphanage. In March 1948 his aunt took him away an orphanage and brought to Abramtsevo. She worked in Abramtsevo military hospital, and then after war – in a rest house.

Living near the artists’ village, Alexander Berezin met famous Soviet masters of Arts, such as Pavel Radimov, Igor Grabar, Dementiy Shmarinov and Alexey Orlov. He was lucky to watch the work by sculptor Vera Mukhina. Magic landscapes of Abramtsevo have been a source of inspiration for the work of artist.

The exhibition presents works from an author’s collection. If you try to find a key to understand a difficult simplicity of the art by Alexander Berezin, so firstly it is important to point that a base of his works is a deep poetic feeling. Many works by the artist are of small size, but they are valued by their flavor and were finished skillfully. They overgrow the frames of a sketch and become independent paintings.

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Exhibition “I am Radimov Pavel, an Artist and a Poet…”

Exhibition period: July 14 – August 12, 2018

Location: Polenov’s Dacha

An exhibition “I am Radimov Pavel, an artist and a poet…” is devoted to works by one of the most Abramtsevo artists of the 20th century Pavel Radimov (1887 – 1967).

Who is the artist of Abramtsevo? Abramtsevo artist is a synonym with the singer of nature. Nature is endowed with spiritual element, in which the love of the Creator is felt most directly. In different times artists visited Abramtsevo and felt the uniqueness and spirit of this place. Radimov has lived in Abramtsevo village of artists more than 30 years. However, the matter is not in longevity, but in dedication and tenderness, in his own “intonation”, he used to tell about Abramtsevo in his poems and picturesque works.

This exhibition introduces a small amount of artistic heritage of Pavel Radimov. But the exhibitors wanted to show the personality of artist with the help of his works, personal items and an archive. He is a friend and student of Nikolay Pheshin, a friend of Sergey Esenin and Vladimir Mayakovskiy. When he joined the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki), Ilya Repin and Vasiliy Polenov acted as guarantors. By circumstances he became the last chairman of the Association and the first of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR). In 1934 he participated in foundation of Novo-Abramtsevo dacha-cooperate not far from the legendary estate. He published the collections of his poems, holded exhibitions, traveled across Country of Soviets (Turkmenistan, Belorussia, Tartary, Uzbekistan, Chuvashia, Bashkiria), took part in foreign exhibitions in Venice, London, Berlin, New-York, Munich, Cologne, Stockholm. Regarding Abramtsevo, it gave him a rare feeling of peace.

The exhibition of works by Pavel Radimov will be held from July 14 to August 12. Last personal exhibition was held in Moscow in 1962 (it was coincided to the 75th anniversary from the birth).

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Exhibition “Phantasmagoria by Sergey Alimov”

Exhibition period: June 9 – July 8, 2018

Location: Polenov’s Dacha

June 9, 2018 an exhibition “Phantasmagoria by Sergey Alimov” was opened in Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abratmsevo”. Exhibition is coincided with the anniversary - 80 years from the birth of one of the most famous Russian animation designer, graphic artist and illustrator Sergey Alimov.

The exhibition combines graphic sheets connected with theme “Russian fantastic story”. Besides book illustrations the exhibition presents works to animation films and theatre sketches including the sketches of puppets for the performances of the Puppet Theatre named after Sergey Obraztsov.

The visitor will see about 50 works over the years and will estimate the originality of plastic manner of the master, his creative phases and versatility of experience.

The exhibition runs till July 8, 2018.

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Exhibition “Leonid Pisarev. Natalia Nesterova. Painting”

Exhibition period: April 28 – June 3, 2018

Location: Polenov’s Dacha

The project “Leonid Pisarev. Natalia Nesterova. Painting” presents over 40 works by the artists. This exhibition is the jubilee – Leonid Pisarev celebrates his 80th birthday on April 28. He was a student of Alexander Deineka, worked in the field of monumental painting and architecture, and practiced an easel art. During last decade the artist organized some personal exhibitions including an exhibition in the magazine “Our Heritage” (“Portraits of Houses”, 2010). He teaches courses in painting in the department of scenography of GITIS (State University of Theater Art). Works for this exhibition were selected very strict and “conceptually”. The artist shares his intense and at the same time light “thoughts” about the basis of Russian life, its utopia and powerful nature.

Leonid Pisarev and Natalia Nesterova have been working for years and have great experience in joint creative projects. He remembers, when in the end of the 1960s girls from Moscow secondary art school broke into the Moscow Academic Art Institute named after Surikov. He had chosen Natasha Nesterova. Natasha had chosen him. And their son Lyova had chosen them both. They have travelled the country from Kamchatka to Pamir, watched and painted. For several years Natalia became a real artist.

Natalia Nesterova is the academician of Russian Academy of Arts, honored artist of Russia, laureate of State Prize and the “Triumph” Award, Professor of painting in GITIS. Annually her exhibitions are held in Moscow and New York. And in the first time – at Abramtsevo.

The exhibition presents “scenic” paintings by Natalia Nesterova. She is attentive and ironic. A man involved in a daily life is in the center of the world depicted by the artist. Then a painting follows, which is so extraordinary, exciting, surrealistic, that many critics and curators try to guess this mysterious play of language and shape. So it will be more interesting to look at the plastic interpretation of Abramtsevo.

As a rule, organizers of the Museum give the titles to exhibitions by themselves. Pisarev-Nesterova gave up on the title. There are their names in it, as a sign of individual artistic and emotional world perception.

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Exhibition “Savva Mamontov: “Hasten to Live...”

Exhibition period: March 23 — April 22, 2018

Location: Polenov's Dacha

March 23, 2018 an exhibition “Savva Mamontov: “Hasten to live...” is opened in Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. It coincided with 110 years from the date of death of Russian entrepreneur and patron of arts Savva Ivanovich Mamontov.

Our exhibition presents the photographic portraits of Savva Mamontov during 60 years of his life, from 1855 to 1915. Many of these photos were glued on album sheets and were brought from the descendants of the Mamontovs in different years. These photos have been copied and zoomed. The images, drawings, applications show the bright, complicated and eventful life of this famous family. Savva Mamontov never gave up during all his hardest periods of his life as it is illustrated on rare and previously unknown photos after 1900, that is after the devastation and the prison. We hope, that this small chamber exhibition will be interesting for all fans of unique and stunningly beautiful person. “Actors, artists, poets are the most precious common good in the world. The country will be powerful when people will be able to understand it.” (Savva Mamontov)

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Exhibition of Works by Valentina Bulygina “Edges of Inspiration”

Exhibition period: March 7 — April 8, 2018

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened the long-awaited exhibition of works by a prominent artist of decorative and applied arts, ceramist Valentina Vasilievna Bulygina (1994-2008). It was organized to mark the 70th anniversary from the date of birth of the artist.

Exposition presents works from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, author's and private ones. The aim of the exhibition is to show the edges of inspiration and high skill of the artist.

Meeting with art of Valentina Bulygina is always a feast, and a wonderful world of the artist, a fascinating world of beauty, love and wisdom unfolds before the visitors.

Valentina Bulygina was born in Chelyabinsk. She graduated the department of art pottery in Abramtsevo artistic and industrial college named after Viktor Vasnetsov (1967). Then she was working at Bronnitsa porcelain factory “Vozrozdenie” (1968) and at Chelyabinsk artistic and industrial workshop of Russian Artistic fund (1968-1972) as an artist.

But all further life of the artist was connected with Khotkovo town. She taught theory of composition and inmplementing skill at Abramtsevo artistic and industrial college named after Viktor Vasnetsov (1973 – 1982). She has trained the entire pleiad of famous ceramists.

Works by Valentina Bulygina are in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, Sergiev Posad State Historical and Artistic Museum-Reserve, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Ensemble Kuskovo, in Russian private collections and abroad.

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A Photo Exhibition “S. A. V. V. A” Opened in Cultural and Educational Centre “Dubrava”

Exhibition period:February 11 - April 1, 2018

Location: The cultural and educational centre “Dubrava” named after archipriest Alexander Men

February 11, 2018 an exhibition “S. A. V. V. A” opened in cultural and educational centre “Dubrava” named after archipriest Alexander Men. The display presents photo materials from the funds of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo and is coincided with the anniversary of 100 years from the death of Savva Ivanovuch Mamontov (1841-1918). An exposition shows the least known pages of his biography and tells about the children of this famous industrialist and patron of arts.

Savva and Elizaveta the Mamontovs had five children – Sergey, Andrey, Vsevolod, Vera and Alexandra. The first letters of their names compose “Savva” and this is not accidental, but a symbol of a particular family integrity, reflection of absolute authority of Savva Mamontov. The exhibition represents photos of members of the Mamontovs' family, which life was very rich and interesting. The children of this family received good education: boys were studying at the gymnasium, then Sergey was studying at the Nikolayev Military School, Andrey – at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and Vsevolod – at the Moscow University. The most important is that they received excellent home education: every one knew several languages (during foreign trips parents employed teachers and also the children communicated with local children), they did gymnastics, fencing, read a lot, trained music, painted and wrote poems.

The main objective of the exhibition is to display unique life atmosphere of the big and friendly family of the Mamontovs and the way of life of Russian Estate of the 20th century.

The exhibition runs till April 1, 2018.

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Exhibition “The Good Night Stories”

Exhibition period: February 4 — March 17, 2018

Location: Polenov's Dacha

Exhibition “The Good Night Stories” presents works of graphics, painting, decorative and applied art from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

Russian folk tales reveal fabulous world that became a source of inspiration for the artists of the Mamontovs' (or Abramtsevo) Circle. The revived elements of nature, prophetic birds, spells and rites, the deepest mysteries, dreams and signs, all these things encouraged such artists as Elena Polenova, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Viktor Vasnetsov and the others famous painters of Abramtsevo union. Their works in genres of painting, graphics, decorative and applied arts will be shown in two exhibition halls of Polenov's Dacha.

Visitors can dive into a fairy-tale and fascinating atmosphere of Abramtsevo, will be able to take part in master-classes, to cradle a baby bassinet, to try his hand at the role of storyteller, and to listen fairy-tales. The fairy-tale is only as a fable and fantastic story on the outside, but it gives a meaning to the emotional world of a man from his childhood. Our exhibition will be interesting for children and adults, who will be able to plot their own good night story in future.

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Exhibition “Viktor Vasnetsov at Abramtsevo”

Exhibition period: since January 2, 2018

Location: The Art Museum named after V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov (Kirov, Vyatka)

Since January 2, 2018 the Art Museum named after V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov (Kirov, Vyatka) opened a new exhibition “Viktor Vasnetsov at Abramtsevo”. This exhibition project was implemented in close collaboration between the Museum-Reeserve “Abramtsevo” and the Vyatka Art Museum. It is dedicated to the 170th anniversary from the birth of Viktor Vasnetseov.

This exhibition presents around 40 works by Viktor Vasnetsov from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. They cover more that 50 years of creativity the artist from the beginning – the middle of the 1870s to the last years of his life, and the artist's latest series of paintings from 1923. These works are mainly the sketches, they reflect the process of work under large projects and pictorial canvases, including the Church of the Savior in Abramtsevo, the design of the performance “The Snow-Maiden”.

Viktor Vasnetseov met the Mamontovs in 1878. Abramtsevo became the unique in his art, practically key projects of Viktor Vasnetsov were connected to artistic interests of the Mamontov's Circle. In the 1880s at Abramtsevo and its vicinities the artist has worked under 3 projects at the same time, such as “Three Princesses of Underworld”, “Alyonushka”, “The Bogatyrs”, series of panels for the Historical Museum “The Stone Age”, sketches of decorations and costumes to “The Snow-Maiden”, projects of the Church of the Savior” and the Hut on the Chicken Legs, and many others.

Exhibition “The Banks” by Ludmila Ermilova

Exhibition period: January 17, 2018 — February 18, 2018

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

January 17, 2018 an exhibition of graphic art “The Banks” by Ludmila Ermilova was opened in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. This exhibition combines works created by the artist in various graphic techniques during the last three years. The careful spectator will notice the change of creative style of master.

Perhaps, the main themes of art of Ludmila Ermilova – her banks - remain unchanged.

Graphic artist Ludmila Ermilova was born January 15, 1948 in family of sailor-navigator in Murmansk. The artist shows all her love to the Russian North, its culture and traditions of the Pomors through her creativity.

Ludmila Ermilova graduated from the department of decorative ceramics of  the Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial School (today College) named after Viktor Vasnetsov in 1968, then the department of weaving and cloth painting of the Moscow Institute of Technology with a specialty “Artistic decoration of cloth and fabrics” (1974).

Ludmila Ermilova is a constant participant of art exhibitions. She is a famous graphic artist, working at the style of contemporary Russian folk graphics (woodcut and lino-cut), talented teacher, the Merited Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation (1995), member of the Union of Artists of Russia (since 1993), active member of Russian Academy of Folk Arts.

Her works are in State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, Moscow State Museum of Russian Lubok and Naive Art, the Gallery of Arts “F. I. Chaliapin Museum” in Moscow, the Artistic and Pedagogical Museum of Toys in Sergiev Posad, in private collections and abroad.

As an artist, Ludmila Ermilova works in different graphic techniques: pencil drawing, watercolors, gouache, ink drawing and pen drawing. She is doing outstanding works in the technique of book graphics. Moreover, she is an athour of illustrations to the series of books of researcher and expert in Russian toys Galina Dain.

However, the talent of Ludmila Ermilova is most clearly seen in works, which are made in the style of folk graphics, in teqniques of linocut and woodcut, painted by watercolors.

Our exhibition includes more than 100 works from the author's collection and the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

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Exhibition of works by Tatiana Selvinskaya “The Games over the Years”

Exhibition period: December 27, 2017 – February 4, 2018

Location: Polenov's Dacha

The jubilee exhibition of Tatiana Ilinichna Selvinskaya is a wonderful gift to the visitors of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

It presents picturesque series of works by Tatiana Selvinskaya of the beginning of the 2000s and works of 2017. It should be reminded that the artist was born in 1927 in the family of poet Ilya Selvinskiy. She is closely linked to Abramtsevo museum through her teacher Robert Falk. Tatiana Selvinskaya is a Russian theatre designer, painter and poet, honoured for Services to the Arts in 1990, became a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1994 and an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2012. She was working with many prominent film directors, among them Nikolay Okhlopkov and Pyotr Fomenko. Tatyana Selvinskaya has created decorations for almost 150 plays in theatres of Moscow and other cities – from Odessa to Magadan. In 1966-1978 Tatyana Selvinskaya was teaching a course of theatre composition at the Moscow 1905 Year Memorial Arts College. She trained more than 100 pupils. Tatyana Selvinskaya is an active participant of numerous exhibitions, both individual and group ones. Her works are exhibited on The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, theatre museums and art galleries of St. Petersburg, Kiev, Chelyabinsk, Simferopol and Bryansk.

Expositional space of Abramtsevo museum inspired the artist to show the series and cycles of works such as “Spain”, “Adam and Eve”, “The Light from the Windows”, “Dedication”, “After Life” and “An Angel”. The creativity of the author is far from eventivity. But it is not isolated from the world. “My great predecessors – Korovin, Golovin, Serov – integrated the pictorial art into theatre. But on the contrary I integrate theatre into pictorial art”, - Tatiana Selvinskaya says. Hence is the name of the exhibition - “The Games over the Years”. As a theatre artist, Tatiana Selvinskaya has a keen and sensitive eye, is not afraid to experiment with form and color. Tatiana Selvinskaya has bright, recognizable style of painting. But the artist confesses: “I have never sought my own style”. However, this is her style.

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Exhibition of Ceramics by Irina Shchetinina “Without Fussing”

Exhibition period: December 22, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

A new exhibition featuring ceramic works by Irina Schetinina opened on December 22 in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

Irina Shchetinina (Grigorenko) is and artist working in the fiels of applied arts, ceramist. She was born in 1960 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Region (not it's name is Korolyov). Graduated an artistic department of Moscow Institute of Technology (1983) with a specialty in decorative and applied arts, has worked for Gzhel factory, Feniyskiy majolica factory(1983-1990) and experimental artistic enterprise of the Union of Artists of Russia “Vorontsovo”. She participated at artistic groups and often made drawing lots (1990-2005). She was the teacher of ceramics at the Children's Art School “Vozrozhdenie” in Korolyov city (1990-2007).

Since 1988 Irina Shchetinina is the member of the Artists Union of Russia, since 1983 constant participant of exhibitions.

Works by the artist are in the collections of Egorievsk History and Art Museum, All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Gzhel Museum, State Museum of Ceramics of the Museum-Estate “Kuskovo”.

Creativity of Irina Shchetinina is lyrical and optimistic. Works of the master are very bright, expressive and highly professional. She has fine sense of material. Among a wide variety of ceramic techniques the artist uses the traditional work on a pottery wheel.

Our exhibition presents more than 70 works of the master. Decorative compositions, panels, layers, plates show love of tha artist to surrounding world and its beauty. She shared her thoughts and feelings, and invites the spectator to think about essential one.

Exhibition will run till January 14, 2018.

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Exhibition of Works by the Sculptor Raisa Lysenina

Exhibition period: October 27 – November 26, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

October 27, 2015 . the Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened the exhibition of works by sculptor Raisa Lysenina “The Way to Yourself”.

Born on November 19, 1955 in Ryazan, she graduated from the department of art stone processing of the Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial School (today College) named after Viktor Vasnetsov (1975).

With thanks and deep appreciation Raisa Lysenina devotes this exhibition to her teachers of the Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial School.

Several years after the Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial School the artist graduated from the faculty of monumental and decorative sculpture of the Leningrad Higher Industrial and Art School named after Vera Mukhina (1987).

Raisa Lysenina lives in her hometown Ryazan, works in the sphere of the easel and monumental-decorative sculpture. As the artist of a wide range of creative abilities and talents, she embodies her ideas in stone and bronze, ceramics, glass and wood.

The sculptor is a constant participant of international and Russian art exhibitions (since 1987), the participant of international, All-Russian and regional sculptural symposiums on stone (since 1991).

Since 2012 one is the most picturesque places of Khotkovo is decorated by the sculptural composition “St. Piotr and Fevroniya”, made by Larisa Lysenina during the stone symposium “Khotkovo Seasons – 2012”. It has become an enjoyable tradition for newly-married couples to come to this sculpture.

Moreover, Raisa Lysenina is the participant of international and All-Russian Ice and Snow Sculpture Festivals (since 1990). She is the founder and President of a non-profit organization “Creative Heritage”, which is engaged in the preservation of heritage of the passed away artists from Ryazan (since 2004).

Exposition presents monumental sculpture, small plastic arts and sculptural compositions.

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Exhibition “Elizaveta Mamontova. The 170th Anniversary from the Date of the Birth”

Exhibition period: September 22, 2017 – November 6, 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha

September 22, 2017 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened a new exhibition about the owner of the Abramtsevo Estate, the wife of Savva Mamontov Elizaveta Grigorievna Mamontova. She played a great role in the history of Artistic union, known as Abramtsevo Artistic Circle. She created a special atmosphere in the Estate – active and at the same time cozy.

Elizaveta Mamontova was born on September 1 (13), 1847 in the family of famous textile manufacturers the Sapozhnikovs. From the childhood she was serious, calm, showed great abilities in Mathematics, Literature, but most of all she was involved with Music, and at one time she took music lessons from a concert pianist Clara Schumann.

During the trip along Italy she met Savva Mamontov and in April, 1865 they got married. Elizaveta Mamontova belonged to Russian women who had been brought up in novels by Ivan Turgenev that is women who can make their own independent choice.

Elizaveta Mamontova was actively engaged in charity. She established a hospital, a joinery school for children at Abramtsevo. “An attempt to combine reading and writing and artistic development of population” by Valentin Serov was first implemented in a small Abramtsevo school. Later it was restructured into an artistic enterprise known as Abramtsevo joinery, and Elena Polenova became its first director.

Elizaveta Mamontova paid a great deal of attention to creation of home museum, building of church, participation in home performances. She did not imagine her life without art, books, the sustainable development and self-improvement. By the end of the 60s when the first women’s classes began in Moscow, Elizaveta Mamontova attended a specialized training course on Mathematics; having 5 children she visited the lectures of Vasiliy Klyuchevsky, Ivan Sechenov, and studied history of antique art.

This exhibition presents portraits of Elizaveta Mamontova, her children and their educators, documents, books, household items and personal belongings, “home museum” materials and products of Abramtsevo joinery workshop.

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Exhibition “The Truth of the Nude"

The Nude Genre in Russian Painting and Graphics of the 50-70s of the Last Century

Exhibition period: August 12 – September 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha

Exhibition of works in the Nude genre presents more than 40 paintings.

Exposition includes works of graphic artist, book illustrator and one of the organizers of the group “13” Nikolay Kuzmin (1890-1987) and the Soviet painter Semyon Chuikov (1902-1980) from the funds of the Museum.

The basis of the exhibition is formed by paintings of graphic artist, painter and cartoonist Vitaliy Goryaev (1910-1982). The custodian of his heritage, art historian Natalia Anikina provided these works for use in this exhibition.

The exhibition has a retrospective character and covers the period from the 50s to the 70s. The spectator will see all details on which the artists drew their attention when studied the plasticity of female body.

The organizers chose a sufficiently powerful name for this exhibition; it has both a definition and a challenge. The artist through his art, intuitive understanding of peace and its verges invites his visitor to take part in a dialogue. Exhibition “The Truth of the Nude” allows to continue this dialogue and, beyond doubt, each of us will have own truth.

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Exhibition “The Way of Salvation” by Anatoliy Sysolov

Exhibition period: August 4 –September 20, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

August 4, 2017 an exhibition “The Way of Salvation” by the sculptor, the honored artist of Russia Anatoliy Sysolov began its work. The exhibition coincided with the 90th anniversary from the birth of author.

Anatoliy Sysolov is a truly Russian national artist, a passionate proponent and continuer of the best traditions of native art. He is a master of genre composition and portrait. His works have an actuality of ideological intention, a certain completeness of volumes, realistic generality of images, a delicate symbolism. His creativity is free from external declamatory message; images created by him are always expressive and very emotional.

His creative path is marked by the projects of monuments, many of which are installed in different cities of Russia. Among of them are the sculptural images of the state leaders and the heroes of the Revolution. Five of his works decorate the façade of Kursk atomic station.

A special place in the zone of author’s creativity takes place a theme of the Great Patriotic War. The sculptor brings his own “fresh eyes” and the subjectivity of the perception into decision of this theme; he himself aspired towards the individualization of the image. It is important for author to perpetuate the heroic deed of the Soviet soldier, and to reflect an emotional state of surviving war people.

The author is especially proud of monuments and memorials to the memory of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War in Kasimov, Kaluga, Krasnoarmeisk, Krymsk, in Barkovo village of Pushkino district, in Mamontovskiy village, in Skoropuskovskiy village and in Ptitsegrad of Sergiev Posad district.

In the late 1980s Anatoliy Sysolov experienced the carved Orthodox icon. The restoration of ancient traditions of carved icons with painting and gilding, creation of Orthodox sculpture and the sculpture on the religious plots became the leading lines of the creativity of sculptor during last years. Carved icons and reliefs by Anatoliy Sysolov have the graceful drawing, fine plastic and definition of shade figures, harmony of decorative and ornamental motives, and softness of colors. Carved icons by Anatoliy Sysolov have earned the approval of hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The artist is one of the initiators of the foundation of section of the Temple art at the Moscow Artists Union and is an active participant of exhibitions of section of the temple art.

The exposition presents works of many years from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and the collection of author. It includes more than 50 sculpture works, 15 reliefs and carved icons, and more than 50 graphic works.

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Exhibition “Cimmeria of Maximilian Voloshin”

Exhibition period: June 10 – July 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha

Exhibition “Cimmeria of Maximilian Voloshin” in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” is an unprecedented case for its force, beauty, surprise and sensation. 150 museum items from the collections of the Voloshin Museum (Koktebel) and the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” are exhibited in Polenov’s Dacha. These paintings have never left the Museum of the poet and Abramtsevo museum. It is well-known that the occasion for this project is the 140th anniversary from the birth of Maximilian Voloshin. This exhibition is organized by the Historical-cultural, memorial Museum-Reserve “Cimmeria of M.A. Voloshin”, the Voloshin Museum, Abramtsevo State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Crimean Republican branch of All-Russian creative public organization “Union of Artists of Russia”. Sponsored by VTB Bank.

Maximilian Voloshin (May 28, 1877 – November 8, 1932) was a Russian poet of Ukrainian-German origin. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature. He became famous as a poet and a critic of literature and the arts, being published in many contemporary magazines of the early 20th century, including Vesy, Zolotoye runo ('The Golden Fleece'), and Apollon. He was known for his brilliant translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.

Voloshin glorifies Cimmeria. His fascinating watercolors show hills, valleys with stones and wormwood fields, lunar landscapes with rocks and view on Karadag. An influence of the East it is possible to guess in stylistics of colored drawings. And this guess will be right. Poems had become his life’s work. Painting has become the desire of his soul.

Cimmeria of Maximilian Voloshin is not only his favored Koktebel with a lot of odd tuffets and precious jems, but also with its beautiful, horrible or fabulous myths. Moreover, it is also the Scythians, the Hellenes and the Genoese, Goths and the Slavs, whose history developed on these shores.

His watercolors are different. Here you have a feeling that time has frozen. They are contemplative and meditative; they show the face of the Earth and the soul of artist at the same time.

The exhibition presents works by Voloshin as an artist for different times: etchings of the Paris period, early tempera and Gouache, watercolors dated the 1920s. The visitor could look at a chiton and a staff of master, handicraft art objects from the House of a Poet, such as shelves, a сupboard, a casket. A death mask of Maximilian Voloshin, made by V.E. Zhukov and S.D. Merkulov, is presented at the exhibition also.

The exhibition runs till the end of July, 2017.

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Exhibition of Works by Artists from Crimea at Abramtsevo

Exhibition period: June 10 - July 9, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

June 10, 2017 Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened an exhibition, dedicated to Crimea. Name of the exhibition is “A Fascination. Crimea – Abramtsevo” at the end of the plein-air of the Crimean artists near Abramtsevo in May 23-30, 2017 within the framework of the XI International Festival “The Great Russian Word”.

All artists-exhibitors are the participants of the past plain-air, honoured artists of Ukraine, laureates of the State Prize of Crimea: Nikolay Dudchenko, Roman Tretyakov, Ramazan Useinov, Eleonora Shcheglova, Elena Molchanova-Dudchenko. All of them are the contemporary representatives of the school of the Cimmerian landscape. And the founders of the "Cimmerian" school of painting were such famous artists as Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Bogaevsky, Maximilian Voloshin, Mikhail Latri, Lev Lagorio. This vision is even more interesting considering that all of them are our contemporaries, and they have a new fresh look at our Abramtsevo.

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Exhibition “From Birchbark to Paper”

Exhibition period: May 24 - June 20, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

May 24, 2017 Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened a new exhibition “From Birchbark to Paper. The Old Russian Book from the Collection of the Novgorod Museum- Reserve”.

This exhibition is devoted to the history and evolution of Russian manuscript and old printed books, from the oldest (ceraes and birchbarks), medieval manuscripts to the printed books of religious and secular content.

The contribution of Novgorod to the development of the Old Russian script is unique. The ancient city of Velikiy Novgorod is the prominent center of Russian culture and books. This is one of the largest centers of education, chronicle writing and literacy. The third of the Old Slavic and Old Russian books is from the Novgorod land.

The exhibition is a space education project that is oriented towards the development of knowledge about the origin of writing and books, based on the materials from the Novgorod Museum-Reserve. Exposition includes more than 50 archeological items, birchbarks, the old manuscript and printed books of the XI-XIX centuries.

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Exhibition “Evgeniy Kolchenko. War Paintings”

Exhibition period: April 29 – May 30, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khotkovo)

April 29, 2017 the exhibition of works by Evgeniy Kolchenko began its work in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. This exhibition is devoted to the 72th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war.

Evgeniy Kolchenko (1933-1997) is a muralist, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and teacher. During his lifetime Evgeniy Kolchenko was not always an acknowledged artist, his art was appreciated later, and this time two art schools, which he headed (in Sevastopol and Mytishchi), bear his name proudly.

His art is of a true antiwar nature. Names of exhibited paintings speak for themselves – “Wounded Earth”, “Ordinary Fascism”, “Invaders”, “Holy War”, “Girl and War”, “Dolour”, “Wounded”, "Death Letters” and etc.

Our exhibition runs till May 30, 2017. You are welcome!

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Exhibition “Elena Prorokova. When Animation Was a Cartoon”

Exhibition period: April 29 – May 28, 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha

Exhibition “Elena Prorokova. When animation was a cartoon” is the beginning of a new section “Our close neighbors”. Art designer and animation director Elena Prorokova spends every summer in her summerhouse at Abramtsevo. She takes a very active part in life of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. So, in 2015 together with her husband she made all artistic part of the project “Boris Prorokov. Flowers and Years”, which was devoted to the memory of the artist-warrior and graphic artist Boris Ivanovich Prorokov. Nobody’s left untouched: the Prorokovs have been able to organize the space in such a manner that it sharply hit on an indifference and apathy of everyone.

This exhibition is about animation. Looking through her working materials, Elena Prorokova understood: nothing ended, life of the cinema goes on, so let it sounds in a slightly unusual format of the museum exhibition. And … the idea of the project “When animation was a cartoon” was born.

In the 1980s Elena Prorokova shot “the female” movies (it is a credo of artist, although her colleagues consider works by Prorokova as “the male, strong” ones). In the end of the 1980s everything has changed. “New time – new songs”. Strict situation with studio: the state budget could not almost finance cinema production, searches of sponsors began, and everybody was striving to become a businessman and to make the commercial cinema. Elena Prorokova tried to save the studio from being totally crushed, she was an initiator of new projects and at the same time was shooting a new film “The Way Out” (the working version is “The Stream of Consciousness”). The artist remembered her childhood and thought about future. The present was too onerous. Now it is behind.

Elena Prorokova has worked at the “Soyuzmultfilm” film studio 29 years (1974-2003). As the director, Elena Prorokova made such animation films as “THE PREIST HAD A DOG” (1982), “ABOUT THE RIVER” (1983), “THE FOWLER” (1984), “THE TALE ABOUT THE STUPID HUSBAND” (1986), “FROM NINE TO SIX” (1987), “MIKKO - PAVLOVAS SON” (1989), “WELCOME TO THE XXITH CENTURY” (1993), “THE WAY OUT” (1982). As the art designer she has worked at the films “THE INHERITANCE OF THE MAGICIAN BAKHRAM” (1975), “THE LAST PETAL” (1977), “THE GATHERING OF MICE” (1978), “BRAVE NAZAR” (1981), “THE BUTTERFLY AND THE TIGER” (1978), “AT THE BACK SCHOOL-DESK” (1978), “RODAMUS QWERCKS DELUSION” (1983), “IVANUSHKO” (1991).

The exhibition presents sketches, storyboards, “the parts of technological chain”, search of character types, redrawings on celluloid, generally, all “kitchen” of working artistic process. Absolutely unique material, a kind of ‘vanishing scenery’ is possible to see there. Here is time and experience of that animation cinema that was a cartoon.

Of course, the work of our exhibition will be accompanied by the showing of cartoons.

The exhibition runs till May 28, 2017.

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Exhibition “A Festive Colour”. Works by Tatyana Mavrina, Nikolay Kuzmin and Sergey Sokolov

Exhibition period: March 24 - April 23, 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha

The spring present for our Abramtsevo visitor is the exhibition “A Festive Colour” with easel graphics by Tatyana Mavrina and Nikolay Kuzmin, objects of decorative and applied arts by a modern master from Gorodets Sergey Sokolov.

The power of colour, the wonderful freshness and freedom are the first and main feelings from the painting by Tatyana Mavrina. We did not make a mistake – exactly from the paintings because whatsoever technics it is – watercolours or tempera – each work by this artist is picturesque. She opens the coloured and plastic world in every new study. An eternal youth of vision, inspiration, absence of fatigue really amazes. Hence author’s name of the exhibition – “A Festive Colour”, it is the name of diary entries and essay by Tatyana Mavrina (“Molodaya Gvardiya” (“The Young Guards”, 2006)) that we recommend to read. This is the book of a mature, original, the brightest artist of the 20th century.

What is our exhibition? It is about colour, about how the colour has changed in the works by Mavrina with the changes in her life, in her arts and crafts, in her view of life. We would like to remind that Tatyana Mavrina is the contemporary of the 20th century. She was born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1900, died in Moscow in 1996. She studied at Nikolay Sinezubov, German Feodorov, Robert Falk at the Higher Technical-Artistic Studios (VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN) in 1921-1929. Her teachers were the successors of the newest French art school. For the first time works by Tatyana Mavrina (at that time Lebedeva) have been shown at the exhibition “Rost” (1928). Then she participated in many exhibitions in USSR and abroad. The artist and her husband Nikolay Kuzmin were the part of the group “Thirteen” (1929-1931), which was the last independent art union of Soviet Russia. Thirteen graphic artists cultivated prompt, light sketch based on impressions from nature. The group had a core membership from the artists who had worked in the newspaper “Gudok”, with which Ilf and Petrov, Olesha, Kataev and Bulgakov cooperated in the end of the 1920s. Different people and different artists, but they were united by a sense of humor.

Our exhibition begins from the 1940s. The spectator could see unusually plastic, exquisitely tonal and airy watercolours by Tatyana Mavrina. In support there are watercolours and gouaches by Nikolay Kuzmin painted in the 1930-1940s. Kuzmin is known as an illustrator of classic works by Russian and foreign writers of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, as a master of delicate drawing with filigree precision. But we present his easel paintings: landscapes, bouquets, portraits. Most of them have never before exhibited and unknown for specialists and wide audience.

A distinctive section of the exhibition is devoted to tempera paintings by Tatyana Mavrina from the 1970-1980s. For us these works are valuable because they were painted in Abramtsevo and in the vicinities. Moreover, they were donated by Mavrina to the Museum, which is illustrative of one more edge of her talent – her self-forgetfulness.

When we were preparing this exhibition, we were thinking of love of the artist to decorative and applied arts, of her passion to collect. Therefore we ventured to include wood sculptures and Gorodets toys by a modern master from Gorodets Sergey Sokolov.

The force of Mavrina is in her vast knowledge; she was always herself, did not fear herself, she was honest with herself and with festive colour.

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Exhibition “Lunch in the Estate”

Culture and Daily Life of the First Half of the 19th Century. About the Daily Life of the Aksakovs Family

Exhibition period:March 15 - April 23, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khtokovo)

Owner of Abramtsevo estate Sergey Aksakov became more popular to the Russian reading public by his first books about angling and hunting. These compositions written by him at the set of his life, won the hearts of readers by an excellent description of nature and life of different animals, birds and fishes.

But there is another side of angling and hunting that Sergey Aksakov described in his works. It is a cooking. He was not only the hunter and fisherman, but he had also a deep knowledge of the rules of cooking of the food from hunting.

The display allows us to imagine the set table of the Aksakovs and the noble family of the first half of the 19th century: in which glass and porcelain food and drinks were served and what recipes of Russian food of the Aksakovs’ times were used. All these slight details of everyday life of the Aksakovs help us to understand and to feel the historical and household background, which gave birth to the brilliant literary creativity of the Aksakovs.

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Exhibition of Works by Boris Ioganson “Flashbacks from the Garden…”

Exhibition period: February 3 – March 19, 2017

Location: Polenov’s Dacha

The exhibition with metaphorical name “Flashbacks from the Garden…” is devoted to the creativity of Boris Ioganson. It presents works of the artist from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, family collections of Boris Igorevich Ioganson and Eleonora Viktorovna Paston.

Boris Ioganson is a recognized classic of the Soviet painting, an adherent of "socialistic realism".

Metaphorical name of the exhibition refers to the chamber painting and the real garden. We explain that Boris Ioganson was one of the first residents of the village of Artists in Abramtsevo, and since 1934 lived in his country-house workshop with windows overlooking the garden, painted the portrait of close people, sunny and winter landscapes, still lifes and self-portraits. These picture sketches of the artist became the main material of the exhibition.

The works are little-known. An exception is made for works from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery “Salute” (1945) and “Portrait of the Honoured Artist of RSFSR of the State Maly Theater Daria Zerkalova” (1947). The paintings are reproduced, all other works (approx. 40) the spectator will see at the first time.

The drawings and sketches are no less interesting to the visitor. Boris Ioganson is an excellent drawer. He amazingly felt sensitive and character features. The static form is not interested for him. The artist needs a dynamics, counterpoint of compound movement, the contrast of colour and shade. The portraits of his mother Olga Radlenskaya are magnificent. And the special section of the exhibition shows the self-portraits of the artist.

Moreover, the exhibition presents evidences of artist’s travelling, his things. Ioganson was in love with the life, and this love to the world haв a direct impact on his things.

This exhibition is intended for true lovers of painting, historians studying the past of their country based not on the doctrine.

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Exhibition “Khotkovo Ceramics”

Exhibition period: January 18, 2017 – February 19, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (23, Kooperativnaya str., Khtokovo)

January 18, 2017 Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened a new exhibition “Khotkovo Ceramics”. It presents works of pottery art by 16 ceramists from Khotkovo and works by pottery workshop “AI”.

The exposition includes art works of prominent Russian artists of decorative and applied arts, the renowned leading figures of ceramics such as Valentina Bulyugina, Gennadiy Degtyarev, Galina Odinokaya, Yury Leonov, Larisa Lekhova, Viktor Kotov and Galina Yambarsheva. Among the participants of our exhibition there are young talented authors, such as Anna Andrianova, Ekaterina Bazlova, Anna Philippova, Irina Babodei, Polina Korobitsina, Julia Goncharova, Vladimir Kornilov and Alexandra Tikhonenko.

All these people are united by their education in Abramtsevo Artistic and Industrial College named after Viktor Vasnetsov. Many of them are the teachers of the College now and live generally in Khotkovo and Sergiev Posad. Specialists regard the artists’ creativity to the distinctive Abramtsevo ceramic style. Characteristic features of this style are beauty and nobility of ceramic lines, the vitalizing spirit, positive world perception, sunny spectral colours and major keys, poetics and expression of everyday life and folk origin.

Khotkovo ceramists cherish artistic, folk and classical traditions, and particularly – the experience of Abramtsevo pottery workshop. Moreover, they do not fear new challenges and experiments. Artists actively use the language of sculpture and architectural design in the process of creativity of bright and unique artistic images.

The exhibition of Khotkovo ceramists draws a considerable attention of the viewers by the broad variety and vividness of individualities, artistic manners, richness of colour pallet, the courage of fantasy and creative search. The exhibition presents works from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and collections of the artists-participants.

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Exhibition “Russian Style of Sergey Malyutin”

Exhibition period: December 16, 2016 – February 12, 2017

Location: Polenov's Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

December 16, 2016 the department “Polenov’s Dacha” of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened an exhibition “Russian Style of Sergey Malyutin”. Sergey Malyutin (1859-1937) has had a long creative life. Abramtsevo artists such as Vasiliy Polenov, Konstantin Korovin and Mikhail Nesterov influenced on his artistic tastes and views. Since of the mid-1890s Sergey Malyutin worked closely with the Mamontovs family. He participated in the decoration of many performances of Russian Private Opera of Savva Mamontov. His name associated with the magnificent illustrations to the fairy tales by Alexander Pushkin, published in the printing house of Anatoliy Mamontov. Based on the folk art, decorative and applied art, lubok prints, using elements of the Old Russian ornamentation he succeeded in creating of his own unique style.

This exhibition presents painting, book illustrations, architectural designs, sketches of items of decorative and applied arts, theatre costumes and decorations by Sergey Malyutin from a rich and various collection of works by this prominent Russian artist, which is stored in the funds of the Museum-Reserve “Abramsevo”. Many items are exhibited for the first time.

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Exhibition “A Festive Colour”

Dear Guests!

Inform you that with regard to the technical emergency situation, the exhibition “A Festive Colour” was closed in the department “Russian artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience.

Exhibition period: December 30, 2016 – January 11, 2017

Location: Department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”

A Christmas and New Year present for our Abramtsevo visitor is the exhibition “A Festive Colour” with easel graphics by Tatyana Mavrina and Nikolay Kuzmin, objects of decorative and applied arts by a modern master from Gorodets Sergey Sokolov.

The power of colour, the wonderful freshness and freedom are the first and main feelings from the painting by Tatyana Mavrina. We did not make a mistake – exactly from the paintings because whatsoever technics it is – watercolours or tempera – each work by this artist is picturesque. She opens the coloured and plastic world in every new study. An eternal youth of vision, inspiration, absence of fatigue really amazes. Hence author’s name of the exhibition – “A Festive Colour”, it is the name of diary entries and essay by Tatyana Mavrina (“Molodaya Gvardiya” (“The Young Guards”, 2006)) that we recommend to read. This is the book of a mature, original, the brightest artist of the 20th century.

What is our exhibition? It is about colour, about how the colour has changed in the works by Mavrina with the changes in her life, in her arts and crafts, in her view of life. We would like to remind that Tatyana Mavrina is the contemporary of the 20th century. She was born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1900, died in Moscow in 1996. She studied at Nikolay Sinezubov, German Feodorov, Robert Falk at the Higher Technical-Artistic Studios (VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN) in 1921-1929. Her teachers were the successors of the newest French art school. For the first time works by Tatyana Mavrina (at that time Lebedeva) have been shown at the exhibition “Rost” (1928). Then she participated in many exhibitions in USSR and abroad. The artist and her husband Nikolay Kuzmin were the part of the group “Thirteen” (1929-1931), which was the last independent art union of Soviet Russia. Thirteen graphic artists cultivated prompt, light sketch based on impressions from nature. The group had a core membership from the artists who had worked in the newspaper “Gudok”, with which Ilf and Petrov, Olesha, Kataev and Bulgakov cooperated in the end of the 1920s. Different people and different artists, but they were united by a sense of humor.

Our exhibition begins from the 1940s. The spectator could see unusually plastic, exquisitely tonal and airy watercolours by Tatyana Mavrina. In support there are watercolours and gouaches by Nikolay Kuzmin painted in the 1930-1940s. Kuzmin is known as an illustrator of classic works by Russian and foreign writers of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, as a master of delicate drawing with filigree precision. But we present his easel paintings: landscapes, bouquets, portraits. Most of them have never before exhibited and unknown for specialists and wide audience.

A distinctive section of the exhibition is devoted to tempera paintings by Tatyana Mavrina from the 1970-1980s. For us these works are valuable because they were painted in Abramtsevo and in the vicinities. Moreover, they were donated by Mavrina to the Museum, which is illustrative of one more edge of her talent – her self-forgetfulness.

The force of Mavrina is in her vast knowledge; she was always herself, did not fear herself, she was honest with herself and with festive colour.

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Exhibition “Abramtsevo-Kudrino Carving. Successors of Traditions”. Works from the Collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and private collections

Exhibition period: December 9, 2016–January 8, 2017

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Khotkovo)

December 9, 2016 the exhibition “Abramtsevo-Kudrino Carving. Successors of Traditions” is opened in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. It is devoted to the vivid example of decorative and applied arts of Russia – Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving. Its birth is due to Abramtsevo workshop, activity of which is related to a significant phenomenon of national and world culture. Abramtsevo Estate that in the 1870-1918s belonged to a famous family of patrons of arts and philanthropists the Mamontovs was destined to become a place, where the whole movement of birth and reanimation of the national spirit of Russian culture was born. An integral part of this artistic process was the work of Abramtsevo joinery.

From 1885 to 1912 more than 200 experienced craftsmen have graduated from Abramtsevo workshop. One of its graduates, a talented person, Vasiliy Vornoskov (1876-1940), who lived in Kudrino village, developed his own unique style of finishing of household and decorative workpieces with large finger-type shape of relief design – floral and animal ornaments.

In the 1920-1950s traditions of Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving were carried on by the masters of Khotkovo cutter cooperatives, and in the 1960-1990s – by the masters of Khotkovo factory of carved artifacts. But even today the traditions of Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving are still live in works by Khotkovo craftsmen.

This exhibition is intended to get its visitors acquainted with the works by artists and masters, who nowadays continue the traditions of Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving. It presents the works from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and private collections.

The exhibition runs till January 8, 2017.

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Exhibition “… The True Friend and Husband…”. To the 225th Anniversary from the Birth of Sergey Aksakov

Exhibition period: January 2017

Location: Cultural Centre “Elizaveta Mamontova” (4a, Kalinina str., Khotkovo, Moscow region)

December 1, 2016 the cultural centre “Elizaveta Mamontova” opens a new exhibition “…The True Friend and Husband…”, dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the writer Sergey Aksakov. It presents enlargement prints of little known images from the collections of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, the Aksakov Memorial House, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art and Russian State Library.

Every photo is accompanied by extracts from works by Sergey Timofeyevich and the epistolary archive of the Aksakovs family mostly unpublished. This valuable archive material allows appreciating spiritual and moral traditions, the cultural interests of Sergey Aksakov and his family.

The exhibition runs till the end of January, 2017.

Exhibition “Theatre Begins from Abramtsevo!” in Vienna

Exhibition period: till November 25, 2016

Location: Russian Scientific and Cultural Centre in Vienna

"There's a well-known phrase attributed to Stanislavsky: “Theatre begins at the cloakroom.” We decided to change this aphorism and named the exhibition of drawings by remarkable Russian artists, such as Valentin Serov, Ilya Repin, Viktor Vanetsov, Vasiliy Polenov, Adrian Prakhov, Ilya Ostroukhov, their sketches of decorations and costumes, playbills of performances of Abramtsevo home theatre - “Theatre begins from Abramtsevo!”.

An idea of this exhibition is to demonstrate the birth process of a performance vision in Abramtsevo art world. Decoration of home performances, the choice of plays, their writing by Savva Mamontov, acting, directing, homely public atmosphere – all that later became the basis of the brilliant development of spectacularity on Russian music stage. Russian Diaghelev’s ‘Ballets Russes’ became the perfect example of it.

Collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” helps to reconstruct a rather expressive picture of Abramtsevo theatre life. These are portrait and genre scene sketches, scenery and costume designs, playbills of performances, photo documents. All exhibits are unique, and the most interesting is the album “The Chronicle of Our Artistic Circle” published in typography of Anatoliy Mamontov to the 15th anniversary of home performances. This album shows the tableau vivant, staged in December 1878, and presents comedy “Near an Art” (1894) written by Savva Mamontov. This material is the basis of the exhibition “Theatre begins from Abramtsevo!”.

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Exhibition “Last Century in Abramtsevo”. In Memory of Vitaliy Manin

Exhibition period: October 26 –December 2016

Location: department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”

Exhibition “Last century in Abramtsevo” is devoted to the memory of Vitaliy Manin. It is held in the department of the Museum, which Vitaliy Manin established in 1971. Abramtsevo has generally been associated with the 19th century and the pleiad of talented artists of the Mamontov’s Circle: Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasiliy Polenov, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel. But the contemporary art was closely linked with Abramtsevo of the 20th century. Artistic village across the river Vorya was famous for the names of its inhabitants and works which were created in its workshops. For example, the sketch of monuments “The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” by Vera Mukhina which acquired international fame, was created at Abramtsevo.

In three years Vitaliy Manin collected a significant collection of Russian and Soviet art. The Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” keeps two travelling exhibition projects – “Picturesque Painting” and “Romantic Montage”, which were exhibited in the Far East, Trans-Baikal, both capitals of Russia, the Komi and the Buryat Republics. The centerpiece of these projects became works by the artists of artistic unions of the 1910-1930s, such as “Jack of Diamonds”, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, the Society of Easel Painters, Four Arts, and Moscow Painters. Vitaliy Manin himself chose these bright and intense works in Abramtsevo collection.

According to reminiscences of his contemporaries and colleagues, Vitaliy Manin was a man, who had his own point of view, his own opinion, which he always was ready to defend. Manin considered that “fine art hasn’t exhausted its potential, hasn’t reborn contrary to the arguments of defenders of postmodernism, and the art of the 60s of the 20th century is the peek point of the 20th century”. That is why he invited Viktor Popkov in Abramtsevo in 1970, and the artist created series of Abramtsevo works on black cardboards, which are presented in the exhibition “Last century in Abramtsevo”.

Manin supported “the disgraced” and absolutely talented artists. He arranged a solo exhibition of Nikolay Andronov in Abramtsevo.

The respected Kukryniksi, Dementiy Shmarinov, Nikolay Romadin, Vitaliy Goryaev, Semen Chuikov, Yury Chernov – residents of artistic village - often visited “Manin” Abramtsevo and with great interest observed the Museum transformations, participated in exhibitions of new Soviet department, discussed, resented, lived! And that particular creative field of last third of the 20th century was enlivened by Vitaliy Manin.

Exhibition “Last century in Abramtsevo” presents the canvases of first and second wave of Russian avant-garde (such as works by Piotr Konchalovskiy, Petr Williams, Alexander Shchipitsin, Alexander Labas, Nadezhda Udaltsova), samples of realistic art and works by artists-sixties. Moreover, the exhibition introduces series of graphic lists by Viktor Popkov in the period of the 1970-1974s, which have never been showed before.

The exhibition takes place in the department “Russian artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo” and runs till the middle of December.

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Exhibition “Porcelain by Popov Factory”

Exhibition period: October 26 –December 4, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Khotkovo)

Porcelain is often referred to as “white gold” and it is quite natural as to remember a rarity and high price of this material which was delivered from China to Europe by the caravan route. For a long time alchemists have tried to solve the mystery of “eastern miracle”, but only in 1709 Johann Friedrich Böttger was able to get first stable test samples. In 1710 the first manufacture was founded in Saksony where the porcelain from a recipe by Böttger was produced.

Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov was the first Russian chemist who developed Russian hard-paste porcelain and the founder of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.

In the ensuing decades the large number of private porcelain manufactures were established Russia. One of the best known enterprises was the porcelain factory founded by Alexey Popov in Gorbunovo village of the Dmitrovsky district.

The history of the factory begins in 1801, when the commissioner of Franz Gardner K. Milli founded his own porcelain factory in Gorbunovo village. But in 1806 he sold it to the merchant Alexey Popov. Sets for taverns were the first products of the factory but the growth of popularity of Popov’s porcelain was so high, that the factory became to produce more expensive products.

The exhibition “Porcelain by Popov Factory” presents items produced by Popov manufacture. Many works are displayed to the public for the first time. Also the exposition includes items made by European (Meissen, Nymphenburg, Pinkerhammer and others) and Eastern porcelain factories, which works have been a source of inspiration for Russian masters for a long time.

The exhibition is designed for a wide range of audience and will be interested both for specialists and all lovers of Russian porcelain.

Exhibition runs till December 4, 2016.

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Exhibition “Savva Mamontov: Everyday Life”

Exhibition period: September 17 – December 11, 2016

Location: Polenov's Dacha

September 17, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened a new exhibition “Savva Mamontov: Everyday Life”, dedicated to the 175th anniversary from the birth of an outstanding industrialist, patron of arts and the founder of Abramtsevo artistic circle. The exhibition got its name from his autobiography: “I am not a writer yet, - wrote Savva Mamontov in age of 28, - not a philosopher, not a profound public person, nothing remains after me – and I am hit in my pride. When I die, my grandson will know only my name, but he won’t learn my everyday life, and it is very offensive.”

Everyday life is depicted in exhibited drawings, photos, documents from the collections of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and Kostroma Engineering School named after Feodor Chizhov. All the exhibits are united by theme of education in the broadest sense. They tell about both educations in the Mamontov’s family and schools for neighborhood children, founded by wife of Savva Mamontov Elizaveta. Separately, in small hall of the Polenov’s Dacha you will see the materials about educational institutions in the Kostroma province, established by Savva Mamontov under the will of his mentor in the railway business Feodor Chizhov.

Photo Exhibition “Savva Mamontov: an Entrepreneur and a Patron” in Khotkovo

From September, 24 to November 1, 2016 the Cultural Centre “Elizaveta Mamontova” (Khotkovo) holds an exhibition “Savva Mamontov: an Entrepreneur and a Patron”, dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the Birth of Savva Mamontov.

Exposition includes copies of historical photos from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, which reflect many-sided activities of Savva Mamontov. Among them are the portraits of famous artists, who often visited Abramtsevo and Moscow house of the Mamontovs, and pictures depicting the construction of Moscow-Yaroslavl-Arkhangelsk Railway Road.

Exhibition “Stories about Sunny Tiles”

Exhibition period: September 16 – October 23, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Khotkovo)

Exhibition presents Russian tiles of the 17th-19th centuries from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. Russian tile is a special phenomenon; it reflects centuries-old traditions of national ceramic manufacture, which were fared by experiences of Belorussian, Dutch and Swedish masters, and it has created the synthesis of plots characteristic both for Russian and European arts.

In a living tradition a term “tile” means ceramic glazed planch with holder on the back, designed for furnace décor or architectural structures.

The name of exhibition “Stories about Sunny Tiles” refers to self-titled research of remarkable art historian Yury Ovsyannikov, the base of which is the stories about the brightest periods of tile art. Any museum item has its’ own destiny and its’ own life way. And about any tile from the exposition it is possible to tell a short story.

The exhibition introduces visitors to a separate stage of tile art – the 18th century, particularly named “The Gold age of Russian tile”. Exposition also presents tiles of the 17th and the 19th centuries which can help to understand former and further evolution of this decorative art. The important place of the exhibition belongs to the ceramic tiles by Mikhail Vrubel and other artists of Abramtsevo workshop, which became a spectacular event in the history of tile art.

"Abramtsevo Landscape" at Vyatka Art Museum

The exhibition “Abramtsevo Landscape” is opened at Vyatka Art Museum. The exposition presents 50 picturesque and graphic works from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. A muted beauty of Abramtsevo nature: the Vorya river, estate ponds and alleys, hills and small woods, is depicted on canvases by Vasiliy Polenov, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin, Ilya Ostroukhov, Isaak Levitan and, of course, the brothers Vasnetsovs, whose names Vyatka Museum bears. A chronicle of life of Abramtsevo Estate of the last third of the 19th century is captured in enlarged copies of historical photos, which the visitors could see. The exhibition is devoted to the 175th anniversary of birth of the founder of Abramtsevo artistic circle Savva Mamontov.

The exposition includes also paintings from the funds of Vyatka Art Museum. Among them such works as a study “Forest” to the painting “The Snow Maiden” by Viktor Vasnetsov, “Moscow Surroundings” by Apollinary Vasnetsov and “The Bridge across the Vorya River” by Andrey Vasnetsov are presented.

Exhibition runs till November 13, 2016.

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Exhibition “Minotavriya. Painting by Viktor Zvyagintsev, Tatiana Malyukova, Ekaterina Lebedeva. To the Cross Year of Greece and Russia”

Exhibition period: September 10 – October 9, 2016

Location: the department "Russian artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo"

2016 is the Cross Year of Greece and Russia. This exhibition project of Moscow artists Viktor Zvyagintsev, Tatiana Malyukova and Ekaterina Lebedeva is inspired by the meeting of Minos and Greece. The department “Russian artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo” presents easel works and ceramic experiences of painters.

Contrary to the name, the exhibition doesn’t shows mythological or animalistic paintings, it is quite different. It is about spatial color and perception of a painting as the picturesque reality with specificity of the light, mood and feeling.

Greece or more exactly mystical island Crete had happened in creative life of the artists in 2014. And ancient Crete has been in their life during 10 years. They literally have walked on paths of Taurus in New World, have swum its bays, have seen many junipers of its relict grove and depicted everything on their paintings.

The artists united the canvases with landscape motives of Crete and New World in one expositional area. In the name "Minotavriya" they gave a hint at the Minotaur, who lived in Knossos labyrinth, and cyclopean Taurus, whose paths and sacred gorges are still in beautiful Tavrida.

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Exhibition “Impressed by the Light”

Exhibition period: August 5 –September 5, 2016

Location: Polenov’s Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

August 5, 2016 Polenov’s Dacha of the Museum –Reserve “Abramtsevo” opens a new exhibition “Impressed by the Light. To the 100th anniversary from the birth of Andrey Lysenko. Painting of the 1940-1960s from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” and the artist’s family”. Exhibition continues the series of art projects, dedicated to masters of Novo-Abramtsevo community.

The elder generation remember a name of the Honored Artist of Russia Andrey Lysenko (1916-2000), an author of many works of the socialistic realism, such as “1941” (1961), “Protected Moscow” (1965), “Do Russians want the war?” (1984) on printed press. His works were replicated on postcards, stamps, in magazines.

The exhibition presents the art works of the master in a more restrictive sense. Being a pupil of famous painters of the 20th century – Boris Ioganson, Igor Grabar, Aristarkh Lentulov, Andrey Lysenko became a successor of traditions of Moscow school of painting. Names of his teachers are inseparably linked to Abramtsevo, and in 1967 the artist bought the summerhouse in artistic village and became a member of “Novo-Abramtsevo” cooperative. Here he created a variety of radiant landscapes, natural portraits of his relatives and close people, interiors of Abramtsevo house.

This exhibition might be interesting for to a wider range of audience. Probably, most people will feel “nostalgic" feelings for the "good-old" times, other could learn more about his works. In different years the artist was influenced by various schools or courses. He was fascinated by the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki), by socialistic realism, or he was in search of something new in “romantic realism”. But during all his creative life the artist was inspired and impressed by the light. By the light of life.

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Exhibition “Downy Shawls”

Exhibition period: August 3 –September 11, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Khotkovo)

August 3, 2016 the Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened new exhibition about the Orenburg-made downy shawls. It presents works by Orenburg knitters from funds of Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts which houses the only collection in Russia of downy shawls.

Downy pieces of Orenburg masters have long became widely known not only in Russia, but far beyond its borders. Today it is a part of Russian cultural heritage. The Orenburg Shawl takes one of the honorable places among the traditional handicrafts of Russia. Downy shawls, scarves, stoles made by Orenburg knitters are valuable and unique examples of folk art.

This type of finely knit, down-hair lace shawl originated in the Orenburg area in the second half of the 18th century.

The Orenburg shawls are unrivalled in the fineness of work, originality of weave, elasticity, the strength of the fabric and the ability to keep warm. The open-work shawls (or so called “spider webs”) are most elegant. They are often called "wedding ring shawls" because, although the shawls are quite large, a shawl knit in the traditional fashion is so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.

Famous glorified Orenburg shawl inspires wonder and admiration by all its beauty. Its visible tangible weightlessness, made by skilled masters-knitters, is a hymn to incredible richness of peoples’ talents, their creative fantasy and capable hands.

The exhibition introduces visitors to the works of the best knitters; it presents more than 30 items such as shawls, scarves and stoles. Guests could learn about the unique features of the dawn of local breed of goats and could follow the basic steps of the development of the craft.

The exhibition runs till September 11, 2016.

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The Exhibitions of Alexey Shmarinov and Elena Suav are Going on

Dear Friends!

We are pleased to inform you that exhibitions “Alexey Shmarinov. Walks through Italy” and “The Felicity. Painting and Collection of African Art” by Elena Suav in the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo” were of great interest to all visitors and received a lot of positive feedbacks. In this regard their work will continue till September 4, 2016.

You are welcome!

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Exhibition “Alexey Shmarinov. Walks through Italy”

Exhibition period: July 30 – August 28, 2016

Location: the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

From July, 30 to August, 28 an exhibition “Alexey Shmarinov. Walks through Italy. Graphics, watercolors, drawing” began its work in the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”. Visitors could see inspired by trips in sunny and hospitable Italy the watercolors and graphic works by the greatest master, the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Repin Prize Laureate, and the Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexey Shmarinov.

The picturesque Italian places, treasures of world art, faces and characters of Italians, narrow streets, bridges, highways, sounds, lights and shadows of big cities – everything was reflected in the master’s works. Among exhibited works there are the watercolors “The Traces of History. Italy” (1989), “Rome. Villa Abamelek” (1883), “Neapol in the Rising Sun” (1982), and a cycle of graphic drawings “From Rome to Florence”.

An art by Alexey Shmarinov is famous and recognized in Russia and abroad. His works are in major Museum collections. The loyalty to the best realistic traditions of domestic and world art, open mindedness, completeness of his artistic perception of the world – exactly these traits it is possible to see in his works. The exhibitions allows you to get acquainted with Italian culture, life of Italian people of that time, to walk along streets and squares of Rome, Genoa, Milan, Pompeii, Naples, Florence and to look the world art masterpieces through the eyes of the artist.

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Exhibition “The Felicity. Painting and Collection of African Art” by Elena Suav

Exhibition period: July 30 – August 28, 2016

Location: the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

This exhibition is dedicated to a great romantic, the world-wide known scientist-paleontologist and science-fiction writer, one of the brightest representatives of cosmic consciousness, who lived and worked in Abramtsevo, Ivan Efremov.

At the beginning of the 20th century the searches of new artistic means of expression led researches to invention of unique source of inspiration in traditional arts of the peoples of the world, whether it be the national Russian art, that was collected and studied by Abramtsevo Artistic Circle, or African art, or the giant monoliths of the mysterious Easter Island, or primeval art of Siberia.

Exposition of works by the artist Elena Suav, who is already familiar to the audience of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” from the exhibition “The Pedestrians in Time”, continues theme of succession of times, carrying over a place of her creative work from Old-Russian town Kitezh to a present-day Africa, that preserved its culture and traditions since ancient times.

Attention of the artist is focused on a search of expression of that particular spirit and culture, that belongs to the heroes of her works – representatives of people, who gave the world the greatest African art, that in many ways determined the occurrence of the mainstream of art of the 20th century – Russian avant-garde.

Elena Suav is the Moscow artist, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, graduated from the Moscow Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Then trained at the creativity workshop of theatrical-decorative art under the direction of Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Peoples’ Artist of Russia Mikhail Kurilko-Rjumin. She is the Diploma Winner of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 2010 to 2013 – an expert of ISAG (Institute of Fine Arts of the republic Guinea). Her works are in the collection of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, in the Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) in USA, New Jersey City, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

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The Exhibition “The Workshop of Cupboard with Column” Is Going on

Dear Friends!

We are pleased to inform you that the exhibition “The workshop of cupboard with column” in Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” was of great interest to all visitors and received a lot of positive feedback. In this regard its work will continue in July.

You are welcome!

Exhibition “Faces of Khotkovo”

Exhibition period: June 17 – July 24, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (Khotkovo)

June 17, 2016 in 2:00 p.m. the Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opens a new exhibition “Faces of Khotkovo. Photos, household items, family heirlooms from the collection of the Museum and private collections”. This exhibition is a joint project of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”, the local heritage association of Khotkovo and cultural and educational center “Dubrava” named after Alexander Men.

The highlights of the exhibit are the photos from archive of Nikolay Kolesnikov (1886-1938) – the first photographer, who founded his own photo studio in Khotkovo. From the beginning of the 20th century the photo firmly rooted into the life of the Russian people: not only the nobility, the representatives of the bourgeoisie and merchants, but also the ordinary people were given opportunities to save the images for their descendants. Today these pictures are the high value evidences of Khotkovo town.

The exhibition “Faces of Khotkovo” will be particularly interesting as for connoisseurs of history and for the inquisitive visitors.

Exhibition “Abramtsevo Landscape”

Exhibition period: June 8 – July 31, 2016

Location: Polenov’s Dacha, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

June 8, 2016 the Museum –Reserve “Abramtsevo” in Polenov’s Dacha opens a new exhibition “Abramtsevo Landscape. Paintings, graphics of the 19th-20th centuries from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” ”.

The common theme of Abramtsevo landscape united the artists of different times, movements and groups. The exhibition shows works with Abramtsevo landscape during several decades – since the 1880s to the 1950s. Favorite places of Abramtsevo nature are presented in canvases of the artists of Mamontov’s Circle, such as Vasily Polenov, the Vasnetsovs brothers, Isaak Levitan, Mikhail Nesterov, Ilya Ostroukhov and many other painters.

In the 20th century the famous places attracted attention of new generation of artists. The members of union “Jack of Diamonds”, such as Piotr Konchalovsky, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, Robert Falk, have taken up an art baton from the old Abramtsevo masters. This union of young artists appeared in 1911, and its first exhibitions have become prominent events of artistic life. The significant section of the exhibition is dedicated to the works by “Jack od Diamonds”.

In 1934 near the Estate, on the far bank of the river Vorya the settlement for artists “Novo-Abramtsevo” was established. Its founders set the same educational targets as the members of Mamontov's Circle. Works by Boris Ioganson, Pavel Radimov, the member of “Kukriniksi” Mikhail Kupliyanov, Dementy Shmarinov chronologically complete the exposition.

Thus the exhibition gives an opportunity to see changes of artistic vision of classical Abramtsevo landscape.

The exhibition will run until July 31, 2016.

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Exhibition “Vera Aralova. She Wrote Time”

Exhibition period: May 21 – July 24, 2016

Location: department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”

May 21, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opens a new exhibition “Vera Aralova. She wrote time” in the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”.

Vera Aralova is a legendary name. Do you remember a black child from the movie “The Circus” starring Lyubov Orlova? This is James Patterson, the eldest son of Vera Aralova. Most recently the first channel of Central TV showed the series “The Red Queen” about a fashion model Regina Zbarskaya. Her professional destiny was closely linked to Vera Aralova, who in the 1950s worked as a fashion designer at the Central House of Models. Exactly the collection of clothes designed by Vera Aralova was the first Soviet collection that was presented in Paris and which has won recognition of sophisticated French fashion designers. One of the divisions of the exhibition is “The Studio of Fashion Designer” with samples of clothes of the 1950s from the collection of Moscow Museum of Fashion, original graphics by Vera Aralova and the portrait of Regina Zbarskaya.

Another interesting and important section of the exhibition is “Theatre”. Vera Aralova was an outstanding stage designer. She began to work in Kamerny Theatre directed by Alexander Tairov, then in Meyerhold theatre, and later she worked as a costume designer in the Moscow Art Theatre (MHAT), in Mossovet Theatre, in “Romen”, in Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, in the Moscow Young People's Theatre and in Lenkom Theatre. Costumes from the Museum of MHAT, in which the greatest Alla Tarasova and Angelina Stepanova performed, and also the sketches of costumes by Vera Aralova to the performances of different years will be displayed at the exhibition in Abramtsevo.

Vera Aralova is Abramtsevo artist and spectator. From 1959 she settled in her summerhouse in Abramtsevo and painted there. Pictural section of exhibition mostly reveals the meaning of the exhibition “She wrote time”. There are no ideological platforms in painting by Aralova. This is chamber painting of good colorist, who understands an essence of art image and feels keenly an aesthetic of time.

Many honored guests attended opening of the exhibition: People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Nemolyaeva, son of Vera Aralova a cameraman Tom Patterson, an art expert and art-director of the Central House of Artists on Krymsky shaft, 10 Natalya Avgustinovich, People’s Artist of Russian, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts Sergey Alimov, Honored Worker of Arts of Russia Ivan Rybakov and others.

The exhibition will run until July 24, 2016.

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Exhibition “The Workshop of Cupboard with Column”

Exhibition period: April 22 – June 26, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Kooperativnaya Street 23, Khotkovo)

The Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” is staging a new exhibition on Abramtsevo carpentry workshop. In the 1870-1918s the estate Abramtsevo belonged to the famous family of patrons and benefactors the Mamontovs, and it was destined to become the place of birth of the whole movement to renaissance of national spirit in Russian art. The activity of Abramtsevo carpenter’s workshop is an integral part of this vivid artistic process. Today it is recognized that Abramtsevo carpenter’s workshop belongs to the significant phenomenon of the native and world culture, being an important component of the national Russian heritage. The story of workshop started at Abramtsevo in 1876. The causes of its occurrence were social-charitable and, perhaps, utopian efforts of the lady of the estate Elizaveta Mamontova. She defined the goal of the workshop as: “to contribute education in the environment of the younger generation” of peasants, “to raise their material well-being and moral level”, “to give the chance to peasants not to send their children to study in the town, not to uproot them from their families, but on the contrary to educate the native craft carpenters”.

In 1885 a talented artist Elena Polenova became an artistic director of the carpenter’s workshop. The most important features of carpentry activity were expressed by Elena Polenova in her letter to Praskovya Antipova in 1885: “Our aim is to keep still existing folk art and let it to develop”. The artist sensitively caught the matured demand of aestheticization of life in Russia and has been fully aware of the transformative power of folk art. In items, made after her design it is possible to see the first roots of new direction of Russian style furniture.

In the 1890s and particularly in the 1900s hundreds of artists, patrons, district councils and even the government have followed an example of Elena Polenova. “All artistic and industrial activity of district councils began from her, - wrote Alexander Benua in 1904, - she inspired Abramtsevo pottery, the Stroganov School of Art, madam Choglokova’s carpenter industry; she was the main inspirer of the other artists, such as Jakunchikova, Malyutin, Davidova, Roerich, Korovin, Golovin and Bilibin”. From 1898 Natalya Davidova was the director of artistic division of Abramtsevo carpenter’s workshop. She continued to expound Elena Polenova’s direction, which was connected with creative development of national traditions. In addition, Natalya Davidova has been able to create her own style of plastically intense ornamental compositions. With her accession to the leadership “the handicraft” kind of activity began to change – the operating division of the workshop has been expanded and turned into serious production.

At the end of the 19th century Abramtsevo workshop has set an example for the occurrence of similar workshops. Among them are the carpentry training workshop and carpenter and furniture artel in Sergiyev Posad, which were established by Moscow provincial council in 1891, and the carpentry training workshop in Semyonovka village of Lgovsk district of the Kursk province that lasted from 1893 to 1903. Nikolay Bartram was its founder, director and the author of projects. The experience of Abramtsevo carpentry was used by Maria Jakunchikova, who founded embroidery and tailor workshops in Solomenki village of the Tambov province. The successes of Abramtsevo workshops inspired Maria Tenisheva for the establishment of no less famous workshops in Talashino estate near Smolensk.

For the first time the works in the Russian style were on world public view at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. At once they won the recognition of European art elite. In the years that followed, the works have proved tremendously popular at national and international exhibitions.

Elena Polenova created more than one hundred sketches for Abramtsevo workshop, according to which the furniture and domestic implements were produced. Among them is the famous “Cupboard with column”. It was created in autumn of 1885 and was used as a first aid kit. It can be said that this cupboard became a distinctive symbol of Abramtsevo carpenter’s workshop. In one letter Elizaveta Mamontova named jokingly her carpentry “the workshop of cupboard with column”. And the organizers of this exhibition decided to give such name to it.

Among the extensive and various collections of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” works by the carpenter’s workshop, executed in the Russian style of the second half of the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century, have a special place. In its completeness, representativeness and quality level this collection is one of the largest and the best in Russia. The exhibition in Arts and Crafts Department completes the basic exposition of the Museum-Reserve, there are the works by outstanding artists such as Elena Polenova, Natalya Davidova, Apollinary Vasnetsov (during the 1880s – the 1930s) with their original projects and sketches of carving motives and decorations. Also the exhibition widely presents the works by master-carvers of Abramtsevo-Kudrino craft and the graduates of Abramtsevo workshop (1910-1930).

In general the exhibition shows more than one hundred works by the prominent Russian artists and masters.

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The Museum-Reserve is grateful to Oleg Danilov for the photos.

The Exhibition “The Beasts Are Walking Slowly…” is extended

Dear friends and guests of our Museum!

Inform you that our exhibition about “Walking Beasts of Beauty Never Seen…” is extended till June 5, 2016.

This exhibition is truly interesting for all visitors, especially for children, who at once begin to count animals.

We strongly encourage visiting the exhibition – you will get a storm of positive emotions!

Soon the holiday of June 1, International Children’s Day. Come with your family!

Exhibition “The Beasts are Walking Slowly of Beauty Never Seen…”

Dear guests of Abramtsevo, on numerous requests of our visitors, the exhibition “The beasts are walking slowly of beauty never seen…” is extended till May 15, 2016. You are welcome!

Exhibition period: March 4 – June 5, 2016

Location: Polenov’s Dacha, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

The exhibition “The beasts are walking slowly of beauty never seen…” is a somewhat unique one for the Museum. Animals as an integral part of our world became the unifying element of this project. Thanks to the Abramtsevo artists the animals are “walking” on the cabinets, tables, chairs, ceramics, picturesque paintings, and on graphic and sculptural works.

The exposition presents paintings, graphics, decorative and applied art from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. Sketches by Elena Polenova, works by joinery and pottery, studies from nature by Valentin Serov, decorative motives by Sergey Malyutin, picturesque paintings by Nikolay Andronov, animalistic sculptures by Andrey Martz and many other things attract the attention of visitors.

And not by accident, that the name of the exhibition was chosen from the line of famous song of the 20th century “The Golden Town” or the other names as “Paradise”, “Above the Azure Skies”. Many of us had heard this song performed by Boris Grebenshchikov.

Under the sky of blue a golden city stands,

With gates of pure transparency, where starlight never ends.

Its gardens are in bloom with flowers, and within

These beasts are walking slowly, of beauty never seen.

From the second part of the 19th century the process of rapprochement, interaction and enrichment of folk art and professional art begins. Vibrant colorful works by Elena Polenova, Alexander Golovin, Sergey Maluytin, Mikhail Vrubel, Valentin Serov are infused with love to the wild life and folk art. The most prominent example of this rapprochement and passage to an artistic stylization was a door, made by Elena Polenova in the 90s of the 19th century. It resembles “entrance to a fairy-tale hut of Baba Yaga that is guarded by owls, the midnight birds of the Russian fairy-tales”. Vladimir Stasov with his characteristic passion exclaimed: “What imagination, what a wonderful work!” In this work the artist combines easily the variety of kinds of folk wood carving: chip, contour, relief and sculpture carvings, geometrical and floral ornaments with zoomorphic motives. Everything is naturally integrated in narrative composition.

From the second half of the 20th century artists continued the searches of “plastics of a living world”, that is most clearly demonstrated in an easel painting by Andrey Vasnetsov, Nikolay Andronov and Pavel Nikonov. They have slightly changed the vector of picturesque visualization. The artists narrate about the perfection of universe in their works, and animals there are the structural elements of a single plastic act.

The animal sculptor Andrey Martz worked in a somewhat different sphere of art. His name can rightfully be placed among the most well-known Russian animal sculptors as Vasiliy Vatagin, Artemiy Ober and Alexey Sotnikov. Meanwhile, although the artistic creation by Andrey Martz is based on the classical images and the masterpieces of animalistic sculpture, his works cannot be classified as traditional classicism. The characteristic features of his works are the originality, grotesque and deep insight in depiction of zoomorphic patterns.

This exhibition presents different works on theme of folk art, artistic stylization and natural depiction of animals. The project allows retracing the evolution of development of zoomorphic pattern from ancient times up to now. We propose our visitors to look more closely at all exhibits, and may be, to discover something new.

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Exhibition “Milusha – a Girl from the Portrait by Valentin Serov”

Exhibition period: April 15 – June 5, 2016

Location: Manor House, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

The heroin of this portrait is the niece of Savva Mamontov Ludmila. Milusha is her shortcut gentle name that was used in the Mamontovs family ambience.

The portrait was created by Valentin Serov in 1884. Something drawn the attention of the artist to this girl, Serov came back to the process of her portrayal several times. Perhaps, visiting the exhibition you could reply to this question and to unravel a mystery of Serov’s muse.

The portrait was created by Valentin Serov in 1884. Something had drawn the attention of the artist to this girl, Serov came back to the process of her portrayal several times. Perhaps, visiting the exhibition you could reply to this question and to unravel a mystery of Serov’s muse.

The visitors will have a chance of seeing the unique photos of that time, graphic and picturesque works by Valentin Serov, Alexander Kiselev, brothers Viktor and Apollinary the Vasnetsovs, Mikhail Mamontov, on which Milusha and her close relatives are captured. First the audience will be able to see the album with sketches by Ilya Ostroukhov, Milusha’s father, who in the 1880s closely contacted with the family of Anatoliy Mamontov. Also the exhibition includes various items, belonging to descendants of Ludmila Mamontova, family photos and heirlooms.

April 15, 2016 the exhibition was ceremonially opened by the Head of conservation for museum and Deputy Director General of the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve Julia Kolomitseva.

Special guests of the official ceremony were the descendants of the Mamontovs – Valerian Vladimirovich Muravyov, who came from St. Petersburg, and Vsevolod Olegovich Volkov. Senior researcher of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” Andrey Vadimovich Gorodnyanskiy conducted a tour for all honorable guests and told about the concept of exhibition.

Parents of Valentin Serov were the composers that is why it is no coincidence that the guests of exhibition opening were the teachers of Khotkovo School of Music – Pilschikova Natalya Valerievna (piano) and Sverdlova Ludmila Vladimirovna (violin), who performed the following compositions:

- Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Sentimental waltz, Sad song, “Sweet Dream” from piano cycle “Child Album”, Waltz;

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. From opera “May Night”;

- Anton Rubinstein. “Melody”.

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Opening of the Exhibition “Romantic Montage” in Volgograd

Exhibition period: April 7 – May 29, 2016

Location: Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after Ilya Mashkov (Lenin Prospect 21, Volgograd)

For the first time in halls of the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after Ilya Mashkov works of painting, graphics, and sculpture from the funds of one of the largest Russian museums – Abramtsevo State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve are exhibited. This project includes more than 60 works by such prominent masters of the first half of the 19th century as Piotr Konchalovsky, Aristarkh Lentulov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Alexander Labas, Ilya Mashkov, Robert Falk, Dementiy Shmarinov, Vera Mukhina, Boris Korolyev, Nadezda Udaltsova, Tatiana Mavrina, Nikolay Kuzmin and Mikhail Sokolov. Lines of their fortunes have met many times and were connected with especial spiritual continuum of Abramtsevo.

In 1993 in Moscow region on the banks of Vorya River, in several kilometers from the estate of Sergey Aksakov the construction of Novo-Abramtsevo artistic village was begun. Ilya Mashkov was among its founders.

The Year of Ilya Mashkov in Volgograd Museum is open by the project “Romantic Montage”. In July 2016 the 135th anniversary from the birth of “the pervading spirit of the place” Ilya Mashkov is marked (1881-1944), one of the most brilliant Russian painters of the past century, whose name the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts is bearing. Abramtsevo has a particular prominence in Mashkov’s destiny.

The last decade of his life was closely related to Abramtsevo. Mashkov passionately took part in the construction of Abramtsevo artistic village and was a board member of it. Since 1938 he lived and worked there most of his time. Abramtsevo gave him an opportunity for concentrated lonely painting work. His neighbors were his former pupils: Vera Mukhina and Boris Korolyov. In 1936 Mashkov took part in the exhibition of works and sculpture by Novo-Abramtsevo artistic circle. That time in Abramtsevo became the period of discoveries, the time of the deepest understanding of painting opportunities. At that time one of his best series of landscapes was created. A part of them it is possible to see at the exhibition.

The spirits of the times, a very high intensity of epoch of great romantic dreams and hopes reflected the concept of this exhibition. A futuristic challenge to the future (“A Train from Moscow” by Alexander Labas), an admiration for the scale of the life transformations (“Construction of Palace of Soviets” by Vasiliy Rozdestvenkiy, “Harbour at Tuapse” by Aristarkh Lentulov), at the first paradoxically are united with chamber tone of intimate expression (“Portrait of Father” by Alexander Osmerkin, “Interior with Armchairs” by Robert Falk). The universal and the intimate are combined in this unique exhibition.

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New in Exhibition of Paintings by “Jack of Diamonds”

There have been significant changes in the exposition of exhibition “Picturesque Painting” or “Jack of Diamonds at Abramtsevo”. Our visitor will be able to look at for the first time being exhibited canvas by Pyotr Konchalovsky “Blossomed Apple-tree” (1937) and later works by Robert Falk (the end of 1940s – the beginning of 1950s), painted round Abramtsevo. The exposition became more retrospective, and this adds a new dimension and intensity. It is worth visiting again for a magic of Falk’s painting!

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Exhibition “Abramtsevo Landscape” at Elabuga

Exhibition Period: since March 3, 2016

Venue: Elabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve

Citizens and guests of Elabuga could see the collection of more than 58 original pictorial canvases of such world-renowned Russian artists as Isaak Levitan, Viktor and Apollinary the Vasnetsovs, Vasily and Elena the Polenovs, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Ilya Ostroukhov, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Nesterov, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, Robert Falk and the others.

Landscape works prevailed in the creative work of masters of the Abramtsevo Artistic Circle since the late 1870s, when this genre was still considered as a secondary in native fine arts. The artists liked Abramtsevo as the open-air working place for “trustworthy talks with nature”.

Visitors of this exhibition will be able to embrace a spirit and beauty of Abramtsevo through works by the greatest painters, to feel that magic atmosphere of masters’ work.

Exhibition “Vera Mamontova. Girl with Peaches”

Exhibition Period: February 9 – March 13, 2016

Venue: Kremlin Palace of Congresses (lobby). Vosdvizhenka street 1, Moscow

The exhibition presents photos from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. There you will see the first years of Vera’s life, moments of Manor’s life, her close circle – relatives, friends and famous artists.

Exhibition “Milusha – a Girl from the Portrait by Valentin Serov”

Exhibition period: February 19 – April 10, 2016

Location: the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve (Novgorod the Great)

The heroin of this portrait is the niece of Savva Mamontov Ludmila. Milusha is her shortcut gentle name that was used in the Mamontovs family ambience.

The visitors will have a chance of seeing the unique photos of that time, graphic and picturesque works by Valentin Serov, Alexander Kiselev, brothers Viktor and Apollinary the Vasnetsovs, Mikhail Mamontov, on which Milusha and her close relatives are captured. First the audience will be able to see the album with sketches by Ilya Ostroukhov, who in the 1880s closely contacted with the family of Milusha's father Anatoly Mamontov. Also the exhibition includes various items, belonging to descendants of Ludmila Mamontova, family photos and heirlooms.

The portrait was created by Valentin Serov in 1884. Something had drawn the attention of the artist to this girl, Serov came back to the process of her portrayal several times. Perhaps, visiting the exhibition you could reply to this question and to unravel a mystery of Serov’s muse.

The exhibition was ceremonially opened by the director of the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve Natalya Vasilieva, the director of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” Elena Voronina and the exhibition's curators Irina Vasilieva and Andrey Gorodnyanskiy.

In the middle of April the exhibition will be moving into the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

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Exhibition “Mix of Use and Beauty”

Exhibition period: February 12 – March 20, 2016

Location: Arts and Crafts Department (Kooperativnaya Street 23, Khotkovo)

Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” opened the new exhibition “Mix of use and beauty. Metal ware from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. The Metal collection includes more than 250 items, the most interesting of which will be presented to the audience.

Antique lamps, Russian hammer rushlight holders, copper and bronze gilded candlesticks from high floor standing to a very small, chandeliers, sconces, oil and electric lamps, lampions, censers, mantel clocks, brass gilded samovars, kettles, waterpots, buckets, bowls and many other – all these things provide insight into the way of life in the past centuries.

Creating the domestic implements, masters tried to make them both practical and beautiful. Elegant twisted legs of candlesticks, various shapes and forms of samovars (boiling tanks), perfectly made sculptures of clocks – the beauty of metal attached an aesthetic value to the usual utility objects. That is exactly why amazingly blended use and beauty are united in every exhibit.

Come to our exhibition that will give you a good spirit and will charm by its ancient atmosphere!

Exhibition “Picturesque Painting”. Works by Artists of
“Jack of Diamonds”