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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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Announcement! Maslenitsa in Abramtsevo
February 22-26, 2017 the Maslenitsa festival with carnival celebrations, entertainments, plays, songs and dances, master classes, fascinating excursions in the Museum and traditional food and drinks will be held in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. Price - 780 rubles per person. February 25, 2017 the Great Maslenitsa will be held. Price – 500 rubles per person.
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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 – January 29, 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”
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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Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
The Concert “The Heart Has Wings…”
In Saturday, December 24, 2016 the concert “The Heart Has Wings…” was held in the Manor House of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. Musical works by Glinka, Gurilyov, Bulakhov, Varlamov and Fedotov created an atmosphere of musical salons of the beginning of the 19th century.
The participants of the concert were the soloist of Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre Olga Lutsiv-Ternovskaya (soprano) and Dmitriy Lutsiv (piano).
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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 “Last Century in Abramtsevo”. In Memory of Vitaliy Manin
Exhibition period: October 26 –December 25, 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 December 25, 2016.
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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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The Night of the Arts
November 3, 2015 on the People's Unity Day the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held All-Russian annual cultural and educational event “The Night of the Arts”. This year the slogan of it was “Time to Create”. Arts and Crafts Department opened the new exhibition “Russia in Photos” by Moscow photo artists, participants of art unions “Historical Moscow” and “Moscow+offline”. Research workers of the Museum held tours of the exhibitions “Workshop of Cupboard with Column”, “Abramtsevo-Kudrino Carving” and “Porcelain by Popov Factory”. The highlight of the event was the musical and poetic evening, devoted to creative works by Boris Pasternak. Poets from Khotkovo and Sergiev Posad, participants of creative unions “Kvadrat” and “Svitok” took part in it. They introduced their poems and songs to the lovers of poetry.
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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.
Musical Evening “Exiting Sounds of Romance”
October 15, 2015 at 3.00 p.m. Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held the evening of composer, teacher, holder of many diplomas and prizes, laureate of All-Russian contests of musical compositions, laureate and the winner of romance competition named after Pyotr Bulakhov Vera Tinyakova. The romance is her favorite musical expression.
Works by Vera Tinyakova to poetry by Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Blok and Marina Tsvetaeva were performed by the soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic, the laureate of international contests and the amazing soprano Ekaterina Babich. Also the program included the performance of piano player, the laureate of international and All-Russian contests Anna Satanovskaya as a presenter.
Admission is free.
Research and Practice Conference “Abramtsevo Readings – 2016”
October 13-14, 2016 the cultural center “Elizaveta Mamontova” (Khotkovo) held a research and practice conference “Abramtsevo Readings – 2016”. The topic “Savva Mamontov in the context of historical and cultural life of Russia during the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries” was not selected at random: October 15, 2016 marks the 175th anniversary of the birthday of the founder of Abramtsevo Artistic Circle, an outstanding industrialist and patron of arts Savva Mamontov. The researchers, fine art experts, local historians and representatives of certain professions and the fields of activity took part in the conference.
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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Musical Evening “In Traditions of the Mamontov’s Opera”
September 24, 2016 at 19.00 o’clock a musical evening “In traditions of the Mamontov’s Opera” was held in the Manor House of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. The soloist of Bolshoi Theatre Marat Gali (tenor) and Honored Artist of Russia, the soloist of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre Olga Guryakova (soprano) will appear before the Abramtsevo audience. This event is on the occasion of this year’s 175th anniversary from the birth of Savva Mamontov. Savva Mamontov became the founder of the first Russian Opera theatre that was opened by the performance of the opera by Alexander Dargomigsky “The Mermaid” with decorations by Viktor Vasnetsov in 1885. Russian Private Opera has done much for national theatrical art and propaganda of Russian Opera heritage. The concert program included works performed by Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera.
Musical Evening “In Traditions of the Mamontov’s Opera”
September 24, 2016 at 19.00 o’clock a musical evening “In traditions of the Mamontov’s Opera” was held in the Manor House of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. The soloist of Bolshoi Theatre Marat Gali (tenor) and Honored Artist of Russia, the soloist of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre Olga Guryakova (soprano) will appear before the Abramtsevo audience. This event is on the occasion of this year’s 175th anniversary from the birth of Savva Mamontov. Savva Mamontov became the founder of the first Russian Opera theatre that was opened by the performance of the opera by Alexander Dargomigsky “The Mermaid” with decorations by Viktor Vasnetsov in 1885. Russian Private Opera has done much for national theatrical art and propaganda of Russian Opera heritage. The concert program included works performed by Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera.
Musical Evening at Abramtsevo
September 5, 2016 a concert of the graduate of Moscow Children’ Art School No. 17, a student of Gnessin State Musical College, the winner of international and all-Russian competitions Yuly Mistyukov was held in the department “Russian artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo”. The director, teachers and students of Khotkovo Children’s musical school No. 6 came to enjoy the live performance and to gain musical experience. In coming days the musician will take part in international contest of accordion and bayan players “The World Cup” which is the first to be held in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. We wish him luck in this musical competition!
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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 Holiday of the Savior in Abramtsevo
On Monday, August 29, 2016 the Museum-Reserve celebrated the Day of the Savior – the Abramtsevo Church holiday.
At 10.00 o’clock a solemn liturgy took place in the Church of the Savior at Abramtsevo. The Superior General of the Church of Akhtyrsk icon of the Mother of God, archpriest Boris Mozhaev conducted a divine service.
After it a literary-musical program “The Savior” performed by theatre class of Children’s Art Shool No. 17 (Moscow) under direction of Natalya Bolshukhina was shown. Then in Servants’ House of the Museum a performance for children “The Scarlet Flower” was held by a theatre school “O.S.T.R.O.V.” (Sergiyev Posad) directed by Galina Bakhareva. Pupils from Khotkovo and Sergiev Posad including children with disabilities and children from orphanages under the patronage of social organization “SIDI” visited the event. The event was attended by the great-grandson of Savva Mamontov Sergey Chernishov, his daughter Elizaveta and his granddaughters. Mr. Chernishev warmly welcomed all participants of the holiday and introduced his young granddaughter Vera named after her famous great grandmother “A Girl with Peaches” Vera Mamontova.
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The All-Russian Action “Night of Cinema” at Abramtsevo
August 27, 2016 within the framework of All-Russian action “Night of Cinema” the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” screened the films, devoted to the history of Abramtsevo estate, its owners and guests. In the Servants’ House a documental and historical film “The Aksakovs. Family Chronicles. Part 1” (The Director Igor Kalyadin) created by the order of TV Channel “Culture” was shown. After the documental and historical film “Here is as a garden, no sadness…” about destiny of descedants of Vasiliy Polenov was shown. In the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo” from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. the documental films “The Russian Artist Alexey Shmarinov” and “The Shmarinovs. Dynasty” were presented.
Art Exhibition-Fair at Abramtsevo
August 28, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held the artistic exhibition-fair. This event took place at 2 sites: in the Museum park and in front of the Manor House. Many masters of fine arts, decorative and applied arts presented their works. Various entertaining and useful master-classes were held.
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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 “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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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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The Exhibition “The Workshop of Cupboard with Column” Is Going on
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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.
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An Open-Air Vernissage in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”
Continuing the tradition, July 30, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held an open-air art vernissage. It was organized in the form of fair exhibition and there was offered various master-classes.
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The Day of Peter and Fevroniya in Abramtsevo
July 8 is the day of the Assumption of the martyr Fevroniya and Orthodox Prince Peter. The Saint Peter and Fevroniya who lived in Murom in the 18th century became the protectors of family and marriage, an example of mutual love and family happiness during their lifetime. A solemn liturgy took place in the Church of the Savior at Abramtsevo. The Superior General of the Church of Akhtyrsk icon of the Mother of God, archpriest Boris Mozhaev conducted a divine service. Then the staff of the Museum and parishioners warmly congratulated him on his 75th anniversary. With the blessing of rector of Moscow ecclesiastical schools Archbishop the Vereysk Evgeniy the Choir of Moscow spiritual academy performed before an audience. Continuing the tradition, in this day the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held the charitable holiday for the children from Sunday schools of Khotkovo, for disabled children and pupils from orphanages and boarding schools – public organization “SIDI” (“The Moment of Hope”), the Orphanage “The Birch” (“Berezka”) and a city social rehabilitation center for young people of Sergiyev Posad. For guests of the event the entertaining excursions in the Manor House, various master-classes and gorodki game were organized.
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Holiday Program about Mamontov’s Theatre for Children
An art course of the Summer School “Play Theatre” continues in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. July 10, 2016 the Museum held the children’s Sunday program which was devoted to theatrical decorative art. Young guests of the Museum – pupils from Moscow, Sergiyev Posad, Dmitrov, Korolev, Khotkovo heard the story about the appearance of decorative art. They learned about theatrical art of Abramtsevo Artistic Circle, how the decorations were made for one of the most famous performances of the circle – play by Alexander Ostrovsky “The Snow Maiden” and how Abramtsevo artists such as Vasily Polenov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov designed the stage and home plays. The lesson of Summer School was held in theatrical hall of the Manor House. And then in creative workshop together with the Museum teachers-artists children made their own stage model with sketches of the scenery.
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Abramtsevo Took Part in the Nekrasov Poetry Festival
July 2, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” took part in the 49th All-Russian Poetry Festival named after Nikolay Nekrasov which traditionally took place in the State Literary and Memorial Museum-Reserve of N.A. Nekrasov "Karabikha". The Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” prepared the children’s literary program “Prose about Nature” that attracted not only children but also adults. Karabikha is the estate of a poet Nikolay Nekrasov in the past, and here were written his most famous works, such as “Moroz, Red Nose”, “Russian Women”, “Who Is Happy in Russia?”. The Nekrasov Festival is held annually and brings together not only poetry lovers but also the literary museums. This year the holiday marks the date of the 195th years from the birth of the poet, the 70th anniversary of the Museum House “Karabikha” and the 80th anniversary of the Yaroslavl Region. Moreover, the president of Russia Vladimir Putin had signed a decree about commemoration of the 200th anniversary of birth of the poet in 2021.
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Abramtsevo is a Birth Place of “The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” Sculpture. For the Birthday Anniversary of Vera Mukhina
July 1, 2016 is the 127th anniversary of the birth of Vera Mukhina (1889-1953), a talented Soviet monumentalist, People's Artist of the USSR and USSR State Prize winner. Vera Mukhina is the author of “The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” sculpture (architect Boris Iophan). She designed this work in her summerhouse in Abramtsevo, where she settled in 1934. The sculpture has made a deep impression at the International exhibition of 1937 in Paris, where it crowned the Soviet pavilion. Opposite it was the pavilion of Germany that was built in form of the Roman numeral III and was crowned by an eagle – the coat of arms of the Third Reich. The contemporaries understood this “confrontation” as a symbolic “battle of ideas”. Later the sculpture was installed at the Exhibition Centre VDNKh in Moscow and has become an emblem of Mosfilm Studio.
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Contests in the Framework of All-Russian Festival “The Scarlet Flower”
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From March 15 to May 15, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” holds the contest of children’s drawing and contest of photo within the framework of All-Russian Festival “The Scarlet Flower”, dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the birth of the writer Sergey Aksakov.
The subject of children’s drawing contest is an illustration to the literary work by Sergey Aksakov “Childhood Years of Bagrov Grandson”(follow this link and download the book). Themes of photo works for the contest are the following: “Memorial places, related to life and creative work by Sergey Aksakov”; “Hunting and angling: interaction with nature”; “Family Chronicle: moral destiny”. This festival contemplates the cooperation with a wide range of audience and implementation of social projects.
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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!
To the Day of Slavic Script and Culture
Following the tradition established last years, May 24, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held festive events dedicated to the Day of Slavic Script and Culture. This day the Orthodox Church glorifies the creators of Slavonic Script the holy Equal Apostles Brothers Kirill and Mephodiy. The Museum-Reserve celebrates the date of May 24 as the holiday of Russian book and Russian education, the day of Russian word, preservation of Russian language and national culture. A topic of the events of the Day of Slavonic Script and Culture in Arts and Crafts Department was determined as “Fairy-Tale World of Elena Polenova”. Elena Polenova (27.11.1850, St. Petersburg – 19.11.1898, Moscow) is justly called the first Russian artist. She addressed to the Russian national traditions and created a bright tendency in modern art and design, having worked in a various art kinds and genres: from illustration to architecture, including graphics and decorative and applied art. Elena Polenova painted landscapes, historical paintings, studied in-depth and illustrated Russian fairy-tales. Many years of her creative work were linked to Abramtsevo and Radonezh land. In Abramtsevo in 1886 Elena Polenova made the first illustrations to fairy-tales. Children’s fairy-tales became a special page in an art of the artist. Since that time and till the end of her life she did not left her lovely work. During the walks in surrounding villages she actively collected folklore for her illustrations. During 12 years Elena Polenova made illustrations for more than 20 Russian folk tales and proverbs, moreover especially she liked plots that are archetypal for Russian culture, not borrowed from abroad literary sources. Only one fairy tale “War of Mushrooms” illustrated by Elena Polenova has been published during her lifetime. However the high quality artistry of her works stimulated her followers. Some her ideas in book’s design had subsequently been developed by artists of the union “World of Art”, and such masters as Ivan Bilibin, Sergey Malyutin, Georgiy Narbut, Dmitriy Mitrokhin, Vladimir Konashevich, Yury Vasnetsov saw themselves as her pupils and followers. Pupils of Khotkovo general education school No. 5, pupils of Khotkovo art school “Steps” and the pupils from Art School named after Elena Polenova visited the exhibition “The Workshop of Cupboard with Column”, which presents works by Abramtsevo joinery according to the sketches by Elena Polenova, saw her watercolour drawings and picturesque paintings. Children were told about the cycle of fairy-tale illustrations by Elena Polenova, were showed illustrations on a plasma screen and were read some fairy-tales. Finally the children answered the questions of entertaining quiz.
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Action “Night in the Museum”
May 21, 2016 the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held a grand and colorful holiday “Night in the Museum” traditionally devoted to the International Day of the Museums. Neither the cloudy weather, nor rain could overshadow an exhilaration of our guests and the participants of action. It’s really hard to describe a scale of the holiday: more than 120 performers on 5 scenes, many children and adults in elegant antique costumes, dances, songs, reciting of poems and many other! * With a sinking heart young viewers were watching the dramatic history of life of the Hegumen of Russian country St. Sergius of Radonezh (Theatre of Shadows of the School near the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Businovo under the direction of Natalya and Ivan the Salman). The performance of theatrical class of Children’s Art School No. 17 (Moscow, teacher N. Bolshukhina) gathered a full room of guests. * In this dreary day the Laureates of international and all-Russian contests Yuliy Mistyukov (the accordion) and Arseniy Zakharov pleased the guests of the event with the beautiful music. Concertmaster of Children’s Art School No. 17 and member of the Russian Composer Union Mikhail Simakov accompanied Alexey Butov (the flute).
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* Anna and Maria the Shirshovs, Denis Khadzhimuratov, Eugenia Ananieva became the winners of Quest about the history of Abramtsevo estate. * The winners of Audience Recognition Contests became ensemble of gusle players “Live Water” headed by Egor Strelnikov, and a toy master Tatiana Gromova. They received gifts and tickets of guest of honour of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.
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This year All-Russian action “Night of the Museums” was dedicated to the Year of Russian Cinema. That is why in Abramtsevo all the comers could watch films, the plot of which is closely links with the history of Abramtsevo estate, with owners of this place during the 19th century – the Aksakovs and the Mamontovs families. The first film was created by a moviemaker, who often visits Abramtsevo is Mikhail Demurov. “Here is as a garden, no sadness…”, this documental film is devoted to Russian emigrants, it is a narration about destiny of Maria Polenova, who guested at Abramtsevo many times. Honored Worker of Arts, film maker Igor Kalyadin performed before the guests. Thanks to his talent and professionalism in 2010 a unique video project “Family Chronicles. The Aksakovs” was launched on TV channel “Culture”.
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the legendary pilot-cosmonaut of the Soviet Union, a research scientist, and now the President of the State University of Land Use Planning (in the past it had a name “Land Institute” firstly headed by Sergey Aksakov) Viktor Savinyh came to Abramtsevo with his family. The descedants of the Aksakovs old noble family Tatiana Aksakova-Kuleshova and her husband, Doctor of Historic Sciences, an author of many articles and monographs about the Aksakovs family Valeriy Zhuravlev also visited our “Night in the Museum”. Thanks to him the book “The Aksakovs: Family encyclopaedia” was issued in 2015. The distinguished guests visited the Manor house and immersed into an incredible atmosphere of life of past owners of the Estate.
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The representatives and students of the State University of Land Use Planning came to the action with the latest scientific results. Also the participants of the festival at Abramtsevo became: * music ensembles of Khotkovo: a constant participant and winner of the regional contests the Orchestra of Russian folk instruments “ Kolorit” directed by the Merited Worker of Culture N.I. Afanasieva; the Ensemble of accordion players “Mosaic” directed by L.V. Romanicheva and the Folk Ensemble “Khotkovskie Zatei” directed by Mikhail and Ludmila the Razvodovs; * students of choreography branch of Children’s Art School No. 17 (Moscow, teacher – A.N. Golubeva); * people’s team of Art Song Studio “Zhuravlinaya Rodina” (“Homeland of Cranes”) directed by V.R. and S.I. the Tsivkins:
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* choreography teams of Sergiev Posad district directed by the choreographer A.N. Sleptsova - People’s choreography team “Kalinka” and Exemplary team “Solnishko” (“Sun”).
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The soloist of “Song and Dance Academic Ensemble of the Russian Interior Ministry troops”, Laureate of international contests, a famous balalaika player and virtuoso Ivan Pivovarov and a concertmaster Anna Satanovskaya performed on two stages – in the department “Russian Artists of the 20th century in Abramtsevo” and in the final concert in Manor house. Charming classic music has taken root in people’s hearts, and the estate seemed to come alive, having returned into time of musical performances of the Mamontov’s Circle. Thanks to the open-air vernissage with participation of artists and craftsmen from different towns of Moscow region the action “Night in the Museum” became a harmonic consonance of music and art.
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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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Our Congratulations with the International Day of Museums!
Dear Colleagues,
Let each new visitor, who comes in your Museum, feels a pleasant surprise and emotional lift, and when leaving – everyone has a sweet sense of joy, a feeling of gratitude and the desire of future meetings. We wish you inspiration, creative success, happiness and beauty! We send our congratulations with the International Day of Museums!
Best regards,
The Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”
To Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
May 8, 2016 on the eve of Victory Day the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” held a flower-laying ceremony at the memorial in the memory of military hospital, which was in the estate during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
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Exhibition “The Workshop of Cupboard with Column”
Exhibition Period: April 22 – June 26, 2016 Venue: Arts and Crafts Department of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (Kooperativnaya Street 23, Khotkovo)
This unique and wonderful exhibition shows more than one hundred works by the prominent Russian artists and masters! Visitors could see the famous Abramtsevo-Kudrino wood carving and will have the opportunity to look at the sketches of outstanding artists. Do you know what is “the cupboard with column” and the purpose of it? In what exhibition in 1900 did the wood carved items win the gold medal? What the grand conception was the beginning of establishment of not only Abramtsevo workshop, but also the numerous artels and the whole direction of Russian crafts in different provinces of Russia? What role has the workshop played in the estate preservation during the revolution?
Visit us to find inspiration, new discoveries and impressions! Opening of the exhibition is April 22 at 14.00 p.m.
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The Museum-Reserve is grateful to Oleg Danilov for the photos.
Dear Friends! In the name of our Museum we congratulate you on the coming Easter of Christ!
Maslenitsa in Full Swing
Maslenitsa with carnival celebrations, entertainments, plays, songs and dances, master classes, fascinating excursions in the Museum and traditional food and drinks began in the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”. March 13 there will be the Great Maslenitsa with its burning.
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The channel “Radoneje” came to us and got acquainted with Maslenitsa traditions and opened in Polenov's Dacha exhibition “The beasts are walking slowly of beauty never seen…”. The report of TV channel “Radoneje” is here:
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Exhibition “The Beasts are Walking Slowly of Beauty Never Seen…”
Exhibition Period: March 4 – April 15, 2016 Venue: Polenov’s Dacha, the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”
It’s a rare case, when we collected the images of Abramtsevo animals in one exhibition! Thanks to artists our animals "are walking" on the cabinets, tables, chairs, ceramics, picturesque paintings, and on graphic and sculptural works. The exposition keeps a fascinating play from visitors: you can find and reveal the hidden animal images on each presented work, and here are more than 100 items, all but one of them. And there will always appear an attentive one who will find this unique exhibit without animal depiction! Are you interested in it?
Hurry up to look at the famous Abramtsevo owls, fabulous beasts, sea maidens, cats, fishes and the Mamontovs’ beloved pet “Snezhok” which was drawn by Valentin Serov. Welcome to Polenov’s Dacha of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” from March 4 to April 15, 2016! Don’t forget to take your children!
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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 to it. It is worth visiting again for a magic of Falk’s paintings!
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Maslenitsa Festival in Abramtsevo
Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve invites you to participate in the Maslenitsa Program between 7-12 March 2016, and the Great Maslenitsa in March 13, 2016. Old entertainments and plays, master classes, involving tours and traditional Russian eats and drinks with samovar are waiting for you. Maslenitsa is the best way to get acquainted with Russian Shrovetide customs and to enjoy a fantastic carnival.
Price for adults – 950 rubles, for children – 750 rubles. Order Phones: +7 (496) 543-24-70; +7 (916) 278-45-42
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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 Venue: 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. 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.
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! Read more about the exhibition in the section "Exhibitions".
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Extension of the Exhibition “Jack of Diamonds”
The exhibition “Picturesque Painting” of creative union “Jack of Diamonds” found a warm response among our visitors including young art lovers (going by comments book). We are glad to inform all friends of Abramtsevo: the exhibition will continue its work till March 13, 2016.
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