February 21, 2018 on the third floor of the main building of the VOKH them. I.N. Kramskoy will begin the work of the exhibition “Handsome man with his face and face. Watercolor portraits of Alexander Klyunder, fellow soldiers of M.Yu. Lermontov from the collection of the museum. ”

The exhibition will feature 15 watercolor portraits of the artist’s brush. Klyundera from the collection of VOKHM them. I.N. Kramskoy, representing the officers of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment – colleagues M.Yu. Lermontov. The works were completed in 1839.

All the works belonged to the regimental comrade of the poet – Alexander Lvovich Potapov (1818 – 1886). A.L. Potapov was the grandson of the Voronezh governor, Lieutenant-General Ivan Potapov (1722 -1791), the owner of the Voronezh Palace, which now houses the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy.

The collection of A.L. Potapov before the October Revolution was in his estate “Semidubravnoe” Zemlyansk district of the Voronezh province. In 1918-1919 she was transported to the Voronezh Provincial Museum, and in 1933 was transferred to the Voronezh Museum of Fine Arts (now the Kramskoye Military Academy).

The works of Alexander Klunder from the museum’s collection were exhibited in September 2017 at the first in the history of the monographic exhibition of the artist Klünder. Graphics “, which was held in the State Museum of AS. Pushkin (Moscow).

Brief information:

Alexander Ivanovich Klünder (1802-1874 / 75) – portrait painter, academician of watercolor painting, author of a series of watercolor portraits of officers of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment, Cyrusir and Hussar Regiments, drawings for the “Historical Description of Clothes and Arms of Russian Warriors”, portraits of representatives of the Moscow aristocracy and brilliant military youth, contemporaries of Pushkin and Lermontov’s colleagues.

The exhibition will last until March 18, 2018.

Visiting the exhibition is included in the entrance fee to the museum.