Exhibitions: Exposition “Portraits of Pushkin” in Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve

December 19, 2012 the State museum-reserve of Alexander Pushkin «Mikhailovskoye» opens an exhibition “Portraits of Pushkin”.

The exhibition project “Portraits of Pushkin” prepared by the State Pushkin Museum (Moscow) together with the Pushkin reserve presents painting and graphics, book editions as well as a number of sculptures united by one hero, one name.

Chronologically the exhibition covers two centuries – from lifetime image of the poet to the end of the XX century.

The collection of the Pushkin State Museum of the iconography of the poet has about 400 thousand paintings, graphics and sculpture. The core of the collection consists of his lifetime portraits.

A significant part of iconography of Pushkin in the collections of two museums compose works of artists of the second half of the XIX-late XX centuries. There retrospective images were created on the basis of the study of lifetime natural portraits of Pushkin, his self-portraits, art and biography.

During Pushkin's life there was not made any of his sculptural portraits. A statuette by A. I. Terebenev was the first image of the poet, created after his death. The exposition includes models of the monument to Pushkin by R. R. Bach (installed in Tsarskoye Selo in 1899), M. K. Anikushin (located in Leningrad in 1957); A. Grigoriev, O. K. Komov, N. I. Niss-Goldman, E. F. Belashova (monument installed in Pushkin Hills in 1959) and other artists.