2015 – Year of Literature in Russia: "Old Russian literature in the works of I. G. Mashkov" exhibition in Moscow

 "Old Russian literature in the works of I. G. Mashkov" exhibition will run until August 14, 2015, at the House of Romanov Boyars — the Moscow branch of the State History Museum. Exhibition of Honored Artist of Russia Igor Gennadievich Mashkov is arranged to the Year of Literature.

Creative credo of I. G. Mashkov is to follow the traditions of classical Russian realism. The artist is committed to the genre of historical painting, portrait and landscape.

Wide audience knows I. G. Mashkov for a cycle of historical paintings dedicated to pre-Petrine Russia. This is an adored by the author the 17th century. "Alexis and Patriarch Nikon" (1993), "Near the White City’s Passing-through Tower" (1991), "The Falconry of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich" (1990) and other paintings have newly discovered certain or forgotten pages of Russian history.

The artist has taken his inspiration in the monuments of ancient Russian literature, such as "Zadonshchina", "The Legend of Mamay", "Life of St. Alexander Nevsky" and many others. He accompanies his paintings with quotations from the works that inspired him, the originals of which are currently in the Historical Museum. Therefore, the idea of this exhibition engages simultaneous showing of paintings, quotations from literary works and explanation of one and another, which means a combination of painting, literature and museum.