Museums of Russia: The photo exhibition “Abramtsevo Art Circle” from the collections of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

In Samara, in the Museum of Art Nouveau was opened the photo exhibition “Abramtsevo Art Circle” from the collections of the State Historical and Art and Literary Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”.

The “Abramtsevo” museum-reserve collections contain more than 25 thousand exhibits: painting, graphics, sculpture, works of decorative and folk arts, as well as photographs and archives of former owners of the estate.

This museum is one of the centers of Russian Art Nouveau in the early XX century. In the middle of the XVIII century here was arranged a manor, which became known in the next century thanks to its owners. In 1843 Amramtsevo was acquired by the writer S. T. Aksakov, who created his best works here. In 1870 Abramtzevo was bought by railroad industrialist, art and theatrical figure S. I. Mamontov. Abramtsevo was visited by V. M. Vasnetsov, I. E. Repin, M. A. Vrubel and other artists, musicians, actors. The creative collaboration of these masters entered into the history of art as Abramtsevo Art Circle, which is also called Mamontov circle. Participants of the circle created works of architecture, fine and decorative arts, collected objects of peasant life, and set decorations for amateur theatricals.

Mamontov circle laid down the foundations of the national, neo-Russian direction of Art Nouveau Style and in many ways defined the ideas of the association “World of Art”, the K. S. Stanislvasky Art Theatre and Russian seasons of S. P. Diaghilev at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.

The exhibition will run until October 23.