November 15, 2018 in the exhibition hall of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in the framework of the program “Under the auspices” of the VII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, the opening of the exhibition “Ivan Kramskoy. In a circle of comrades.
The opening ceremony was attended by: Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician, art historian, art critic, musicologist, screenwriter, teacher, professor Andrey Andreyevich Zolotov, director of the National Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexey Yuryevich Mudrov, deputy director of the Scientific and Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts on scientific work Veronika Bogdan Trayanovna.
Voronezh Art Museum. I.N. Kramsky was represented by director Olga Alexandrovna Ryabchikova and museum curator Elena Ivanovna Pshenitsyna, Ostrogozhsky History and Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy – Director Marina Ivanovna Pilipenko.
During the opening of the leaders of the VOKHM them. I.N. Kramskoy and NIM RAH signed an agreement involving long-term cooperation in the field of museum work, exchange of exhibitions, experience between museum staff and joint research.
Exhibition project dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the formation of the VOKM them. I.N. Kramskoy, who successfully started in 2017, in the year of the 180th anniversary of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy, for the first time presents to the general public of St. Petersburg the works of the Voronezh Land Artist and his contemporaries-like-minded people. Only fifty-three works.
The exposition includes all twenty-nine works of Ivan Kramskoy from the funds of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum, and five works from the funds of the Ostrogorsky Historical and Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy. In addition to the works of Ivan Kramskoy, the exhibition presents works by famous artists of the Wanderers, who were part of the first artistic association of Russia “Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions”, the ideologist of which Ivan Kramskoy remained until the end of his life.
The exhibition will run until January 20, 2019.