Museums of Russia: The Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” presents two exhibitions in the Novgorod Museum-Reserve

February 19, 2016 in the exhibition hall of the building of Official place of the Novgorod Kremlin is opened the exhibition "Milusha - girl with a portrait by Valentin Serov".

The exhibition presents works of art, documents and photographs from the collection of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, "Abramtsevo" Museum-Reserve and the family archives of V. V. and L. A. Muravyovs (St. Petersburg). The exhibition will run until 10 April. From May to July 2016 the exhibition project will be presented at the State Historical Art and Literary Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo" (the Moscow region).

The central product around which is developing the exposition story is a picture of Valentin Serov "Portrait of Milusha Mamontova" (1884, oil, canvas, 57х45) from the collection of the Novgorod Museum. 

The proposed exhibition allows us to trace created by Valentin Serov artistic image of a ten-year girl, her subsequent fate, family and artistic communication, the history of the work. The exhibition includes unique pictorial and documentary material, rare photographs, family portraits of the Mamontovs, the Muravyovs, materials of the Novgorod Society of Antiquity, letters, books, etc. Most of the material is presented for the first time. 

Also on February 19 is opened the exhibition "Artists in Abramtsevo". It presents more than thirty large-format copies of photos from the collections of "Abramtsevo" Museum-Reserve. The exhibition introduces the appearance of the estate "Abramtsevo" of the end of XIX – early XX century and its inhabitants - the family of the owner of the estate Savva Mamontov and his circle of artists-friends.

The manor "Abramtsevo" - one of the picturesque places in Moscow. It is known not only by natural beauty but also for its historical past. During the XIX century, this manor twice became one of the centers of literary and artistic life of Russia. From 1843 to 1858 there lived and worked the writer, literary and theater critic S. T. Aksakov, and from 1870 to 1918 the estate belonged to the family of a successful entrepreneur and renowned philanthropist S. I. Mamontov.