History and culture: “Pushkiniana of anniversaries” from the holdings of the National Pushkin Museum” exhibition in Novgorod the Great

September 19, 2014, the exhibition "Pushkiniana of anniversaries" from the holdings of the National Pushkin Museum" opened in the exhibition hall of the Museum of Fine Arts (Novgorod the Great).

The National Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg) has created this exhibition inthe end of the 1990s, on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the great Russian poet.

Since then it has been exhibited in various cities of Russia - Pskov, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Belgorod.

"Pushkiniana of anniversaries" presented in Novgorod the Great consists exclusively of paintings. The number of them is relatively small - 26 paintings, but those are the best works of artists of the Soviet period of 1930 - 1980 from the collection of the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg.

The core of the exhibition is the paintings, created to commemorate the Pushkin date of 1937 - the 100th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin. It was then that the National Pushkin Museum was created on the basis of the jubilee exhibition, and at the same time the museum's collection included the exhibited landscapes by V. K. Byalynitsky-Birul’, M. S. Saryan, a painting by P. P. Sokolov-Skal’. In the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, the museum acquired the canvas of Pyotr Konchalovsky, "A. S. Pushkin in Boldino," mostly painted by the artist in 1937; and the work of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin of 1937 was donated to the museum in 1962 by the famous art critic and collector P. E. Kornilov.

Tradition to time large-scale paintings to Pushkin dates was continued by the artists, who were efficiently working in the 1940s - 1950s. Lyrical painting of one of the giants of the Soviet painting, E. E. Moiseenko, "Pushkin. Autumn" is the dominative painting of the 1980s, displayed at the exhibition.  

The exhibition "Pushkiniana of anniversaries" the visitor has the opportunity not only to remember the great Russian poet, his work, biographical facts, but also to admire excellent samples of works of art of the 20th century.

The exhibition will run in Novgorod the Great until December 17, 2014.