Memorable dates of Russia: Exhibition "Paolo Trubetskoy. To the 150th anniversary of his birth" in St. Petersburg

November 24, 2016 in Mikhailovsky Castle (the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg) hosted the exhibition "Paolo Trubetskoy. To the 150th anniversary of his birth".

The State Russian Museum owns Russia's largest collection of works by the outstanding sculptor Paul (Paolo) Petrovich Trubetskoy (1866-1938), including the famous equestrian statue of Alexander III for the monument, opened in May 1909 at the Znamensky Square in St. Petersburg. In 1939 it was accepted into the museum for storage and was installed in 1994 in front of the Marble Palace, a branch of the Russian Museum.

The art of the famous artists who worked in Italy, Russia, France and America, is shown as part of a personal exhibition, for many it will be a true discovery. The exhibition is representing mainly works of the most fruitful "Russian" period, a number of portraits of prominent contemporaries (Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Witte, I. Levitan, Fyodor Chaliapin, S. Botkin) will show genre and animalistic works, and Trubetskoy schedule. The exhibition includes 37 sculptures and 8 of the drawings from the collections of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music and the Moscow private collection.