History and Culture: The exhibition from the cycle "Living Exposition", dedicated to a military portrait from the collections of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve

Since July 20, 2017 in the Museum of Fine Arts of Veliky Novgorod starts running the mini-exhibition "In the service of the throne and the Fatherland. Military portrait of the XIX - early XX century in the collection of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve. Six paintings will acquaint the viewer with works that have been in funds for a long time reconstructed during the last few years in the museum workshop of oil painting restoration. They allow us to recall the glorious pages of Russian military history, the heroes of which were remarkable representatives of the Russian army. The exhibition will last until October 10.

The first one at the exhibition it can be seen "Portrait of the captain-captain of the Life Guards Regiment A. I. Lazarev", performed by an unknown artist from the original V. A. Tropinin. This is a memorable posthumous depiction of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, Artemy Ioakimovich Lazarev, who distinguished himself in the battle of the village Krasnoye and killed by the nucleus at the Battle of the Peoples near Leipzig on October 4, 1813. 

The same family belonged to Prince Semyon Davydovich Abamelek, who was freely and enthusiastically captured by one of the most talented portraitists S. K. Zaryanka. The audience is invited to assess the excellent sample portrait etude, written in one six-hour session on the morning of February 4, 1852 (as the artist's inscription testifies). The hero of the portrait repeatedly met with A. S. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky, he was one of M. Lermontov's colleagues and friends.

From the portrait gallery of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment, there is a "Portrait of Capt. Captain M. P. Arnoldi" by the famous master of the Apppian genre (from the Greek hippos - horse) N. E. Sverchkov and the work of an unknown author "Portrait of Lieutenant V. F. Kozlyaninov", whose name is associated with the development of the regimental museum. Horse images at the exhibition are supplemented by P. O. Kovalevsky's "Portrait of Major-General A. P. Strukov", the hero of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878, commander of the Life Guards of the Ulan Regiment.

The ceremonial images include "The portrait of P. S. Vannovsky, in the uniform of the Adjutant General of the Suite of His Imperial Majesty, performed in 1890 by Academician A. I. Korzukhin. Pyotr Semyonovich Vannovsky, during the entire reign of Alexander III, served as military minister.

The cycle of mini-exhibitions "Live Exposition" takes place in the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts from 2014. These are paintings from the collections of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, which organically complement and thematically develop the main storyline of the exposition "Russian Fine Art of the XVIII - XX centuries".