The Russian Museum presented the exhibition “Pictures of Military Life”
Ludmila Leusskaya
culture
November 16, 2022
In the Benois Wing, the Russian Museum launched the exhibition “Pictures of Military Life”. It was shown with great success. There, the project was presented to a broader painting, in particular portraits, and decorative and applied diseases – porcelain, furniture. In addition, the project had a second part – “Pictures of World Life”. The museum promises to show it to the Petersburg audience next month.
PHOTO Alexander DROZDOV
Now in the hall of the right suite of the Benois Wing there are about twenty muscles – paintings, sculpture, arts and crafts of the 16th – 20th centuries. Among the authors are Viktor Vasnets Dzhorzhev, Dow, Orest Kiprensky, Vasily Vereshchagin, Alexander Deineka, Kazimir Malevich and others. The theme of the event shows paintings that have not been published and presents little-known artists from the collection of domestic art treasures.
The battle school of painting in Russia arose in the 19th scenario. In addition, plots related to the field of the elect were interpreted as historical. Emperors were the customers for battle, private and genre paintings, and in Soviet times, the state represented by the Ministry of Culture, the Union of Artists.
— Our permanent exhibition contains historical photographs. There we presented the genre from the point of view of assessing a particular master, – says Evgenia Petrova, deputy director of the Russian Museum for Science. — At the exhibition, paintings of the military genre are forever. Most of these rights are stored in the museum storerooms. It is difficult to show them – you need to deploy them from the shaft, stuff them on a stretcher … The bulk of the muscles were created in the 19th – early 20th centuries. This is not a chronology of the history of Russia, but luck to the occasion of its events in the work of artists.
Exhibition of a survey of the period from the Middle Ages to the contagion of the twentieth century, composed of different sections. There are works dedicated to the Mongol-Tatar heritage, the battle with the German knights of the Livonian Order on Lake Peipus, the presentation of the Kazan Khanate by Ivan the Terrible, the events and chapters of the Patriotic War with the army of Napoleon, the Crimean War and the Great Patriotic War.
Everything starts with icons. Victories in the fight against the resistance led by the Archangel Michael are a popular subject in icon painting, as is the fight against the defense of Georgia with the serpent. “The Miracle of George about the Serpent” is an icon drawing from the end of the 15th century. “Battle of Novgorodians with Suzdalians” is the forerunner of Russian battle painting.
Pre-revolutionary canvases side by side with works of the Soviet era. “The Battle of the Scythians with the Slavs” Vasnetsov wrote in the mid-1830s in the wake of interest in Russian history. “The Entry of Alexander Nevsky to Pskov” was created by Vladimir Serov in 1945 against the backdrop of a patriotic upsurge during the Great Patriotic War.
One of the central places is occupied by the famous portrait of the hero of the war against Napoleon, Yevgraf Davydova, painted by Orest Kiprensky.
One of the discoveries of the exhibition was the restored painting by the battle painter of the second half of the 19th century Pyotr Gruzinsky “Abandonment of the highlanders of the village at the approach of Russian troops”. At one time it was bought by Alexander II.
In the finale – paintings dedicated to the memory of past military trials. The poignant “Traces of War” by Geliy Korzhev, “Farewell” by Andrey Mylnikov, “Victory” by Yevsey Moiseenko.
The exhibition will run until the close of January next year.
The material was published in the newspaper “Saint Petersburg Vedomosti” No. 215 (7298) dated 11/16/2022 under the heading “Chronicle of victories and trials”.
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