History and culture: The exhibition “Peter the Great. Time and circle” in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "Peter the Great. Time and circle" is opened on December 17, 2015 in the Mikhailovsky Palace (the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg).

The exhibition, held in the framework of the "Saga of the Romanovs", is devoted to the era, which is decisive for the development of national culture of modern times and which is associated with the emergence and development of the Russian school of painting. It was at the age of Peter that falls heyday of the first Russian painter Ivan Nikitin Andrey Matveev, as well as outstanding masters "Rossica" George Gsell, Louis Caravaca, Johann Tannauer and other artists.

The most common painting of the Peter time was the portrait genre. Through the activities of Russian and foreign artists has been developed a diverse and extensive iconography of the sovereign's family, colleagues and associates of Peter the Great. Neither one of the subsequent periods of development of Russian art portraits did not testify about the time of his heroes with such strength and depth, without embellishment and idealization.

The exposition includes original masterpieces of national art of the era and other works from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg and Moscow suburbs, and also from foreign museums and private collections.