Collections of the Russian Museum

A 15th-century icon of St. George from Novgorod, now in the collection of the Russian Museum.

Among the collections of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg in Russia are some of the greatest pieces of Russian art in the world.

The Museum houses collections of sculpture, objets d'art, drawings and paintings including the famous picture gallery.

18th-19th century

• The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Brullov
• Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin
• Portrait of Murtaza Kuli Khan by Vladimir Borovikovsky
• The Brazen Serpent by Fidelio Bruni
• The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky
• Phrine at the Festival of Poseidon at the Eleusinia by Henryk Siemiradzki
• Christ's Appearance to St Mary Magdalene by Alexander Ivanov
• Portrait of Maria Rumyantseva by Alexey Antropov
• Bogatyr by Viktor Vasnetsov
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a Violet Dress by Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky

Modern (19th-20th century)

• Black Circle by Kazimir Malevich

Soviet art

• 'A Fascist Flew Past' by Arkady Plastov

Naïve art

• Katya Medvedeva^[1]

References

1. http://rusmuseum.ru/eng/exhib/lenta/exhibition2006/exhibition216/ Katya Medvedeva, Painting and Graphic Art 30th Anniversary of the Artist′s Oeuvre], Russian Museum, 6 April – 9 May 2006.

External links

• Russian icons from the collection of Russian Museum