Society and culture: Exhibit celebrating tenth anniversary of the International Association of Artists – Descendants of Noble Families

On January 12th 2012 Gavrila Derzhavin Museum-Estate (St. Petersburg) is staging an exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary of the International Association of Artists – Descendants of Noble Families.

The first major exhibit of Association’s artists, which generated enormous public interest, kicked off at the National Pushkin Museum in 2001. Later the museum would hold personal exhibitions and put on display works of the Association’s members – artists Valentin Afanasev and Boris Engelhardt.

On Christmas holidays in 2012 the National Pushkin Museum is again presenting its exhibition halls, this time in Derzhavin Museum-Estate for the exhibition celebrating ten years of the International Association of Artists - Descendants of Noble Families.

Here visitors can discover works by many artists, including famous masters – sculptor Levon Lazarev and artist Yaroslav Krestovsky.