Russian museums: The new permanent exhibition “Petersburg Society of the Romanovs’ era” in the State Russian Museum

October 16, 2014 in the Mikhailovky Castle (the State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg) is opening a new permanent exposition of the Museum “Petersburg Society of the Romanovs’ era”.

The new permanent exhibition of the State Russian Museum presents works by native art of the first half of the XIX century - a time when Petersburg has finally become a complex and contradictory unity of the urban and social environment. It was during this period when emerged the concept "Petersburg society", expressed in the people and social groups.

Petersburg in painting, drawing, sculpture and applied art of the first half of the XIX century is recorded in a variety of works on display. Primarily portraits, including miniature watercolors - techniques, flourished at this time, the city vedutas, depicting social events, festivals and parades, small plastic - St. Petersburg figures of national and social types.

The central works of the exposition is the painting of Grigory Chenetsov – “Parade in the Empress Meadow”, which depicts the Petersburg Society of the 1830s. This works is almost an exhaustive portrait of Petersburg and the Petersburg Society in one of the brightest periods of its existence.