Society and Culture: Russian Museum presents the exhibition “Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life”

The exhibition Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life has opened in the Benois Wing of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg). This is the second part of the Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace. The exposition includes over 160 artworks from the Russian Museum’s collection. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to see rarely exhibited artworks by well-known artists, such as Ivan Kramskoi, Vladimir Makovsky, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Korovin, and others. The paintings are complemented by objects of decorative and applied and folk art, lithographic prints and photographs.

The exposition, covering a significant period of Russian art (from the 18th to the 20th century.), is based on a thematic principle. "In the family circle", "Children in the house", "Hearth", "Feast", "In peace and quiet", "Still Lifes" – these sections allow visitors to learn as fully as possible about everyday life and various aspects of the peaceful life of representatives of the past centuries. At the same time, the chronology of the creation of works, cultural and historical, as well as stylistic features of each epoch are considered as well.

The Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace can be seen as a diptych comprised of two exhibitions: Images of Military Life in Russian Art of the 16th to 20th Centuries and Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life. They explore two existential aspects of human life perceived as polar opposites. The first half of the diptych features scenes of everyday life during wartime, while the other focuses on the theme of the home and family as guardian of the moral values of the Russian people.

The exhibition will run until March 6, 2023.