The Year of Ecology in Russia-2017: The exhibition "Parks and Manors" in the Ryazan region

The exhibition "Parks and Manors" is opened in the Klepikovsky department of the S. A. Yesenin Museum-Reserve (the Ryazan region) on March 14, 2017.

In the Year of Ecology, visitors of the museum can get acquainted with the park and manor culture, imprinted in paintings and graphics. The exposition presents works by both authors who have died, and by our contemporaries - Ryazan artists.

In Russia there were a lot of beautiful parks and estates, but after the events of the 1917 revolution, almost all the XX century the topic of aristocratic estates was unpopular, the Soviet era is the time of their ruthless destruction or adaptation to the "needs of the working people". Lucky for the mansions given under the sanatoriums (as a garden complex in Gurzuf, which is imprinted on one of the sketches of A. Syrov), associated with the names of the leaders of the revolution (like Moscow Gorki on the graphic sheets of Sh. Bronstein and I. Maslennikova). 

The terrible damage caused by the war made us pay attention to the value of architectural monuments of the past. I. Sokolov's linocut, from the series "What the Enemy Ruined" (1944) depicts the famous architectural ensemble "Peterhof" in its pre-war form. In works of the post-war years, the sadness of the lost is dominant - as in the small natural sketches of I. Budkin and V. Dubinin, created by artists "for themselves". On them - the empty avenues of Ryumin Grove in Ryazan, overgrown during the war years Summer Garden in Leningrad…

The authentic image of noble nests was preserved only in theatrical and decorative arts and book illustrations. In the collection of the art museum there are works of theater artists V. Dubinin and E. Borisov, created for performances based on works by Turgenev, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky's opera “The Queen of Spades”, which are presented at the exhibition.