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Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War (1871)
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Vasily Vereshchagin: The War Painter Who Showed Battles Without Glory

October 13, 2026 Russian Arts
Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest (1889)
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Ivan Shishkin: Forest Painter Behind Russia’s Most Copied Canvas

October 10, 2026October 11, 2026 Russian Arts
Zinaida Serebriakova: Self-Portraits as Quiet Radicalism
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Zinaida Serebriakova: Self-Portraits as Quiet Radicalism

September 8, 2026September 21, 2026 Russian Arts
Valentin Serov, Portrait of Isaac Levitan (1893)
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Valentin Serov: The Portraitist Who Painted Imperial Russia’s Last Generation

August 31, 2026September 1, 2026 Russian Arts
Isaac Levitan, Golden Autumn (Slobodka) (1889)
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Isaac Levitan: The Mood Landscapes That Defined Russia’s Countryside

August 29, 2026August 30, 2026 Russian Arts
Mikhail Vrubel, The Demon Seated (1890)
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Mikhail Vrubel: The Demon Paintings That Consumed Their Creator

August 24, 2026August 25, 2026 Russian Arts
Wassily Kandinsky, Clear Air (1901)
Exhibitions & Events

Point and Line: Malevich and Kandinsky, Tretyakov Kaliningrad

Point and Line at the Tretyakov Gallery in Kaliningrad: 150+ works tracing geometric abstraction in Russian art, from Cubo-Futurism to Malevich and Kandinsky.

October 15, 2026
Wassily Kandinsky, Gelb-Rot-Blau (1925)
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Our Twentieth: 20th Century Art, Krasnoyarsk Surikov Museum

Our Twentieth. Image of the Era brings Malevich, Kandinsky, Konchalovsky and Gerasimov to the Krasnoyarsk Surikov Art Museum, with 20th century painting.

October 15, 2026
Kazimir Malevich, Rest (Society in Top Hats) 1908 (1908)
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Malevich FLY at Igor Burganov Academy of Arts, Moscow

Malevich FLY at the Igor Burganov Academy of Arts in Moscow: painters pay homage to Suprematism, with Tolstikov, Shushanyan and Lobov. See what is on view.

October 15, 2026
Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War (1871)
Artists

Vasily Vereshchagin: The War Painter Who Showed Battles Without Glory

Vasily Vereshchagin painted war as skulls, frozen sentries and unburied dead. Follow the Russian war artist from Turkestan to Port Arthur.

October 13, 2026
Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest (1889)
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Ivan Shishkin: Forest Painter Behind Russia’s Most Copied Canvas

Ivan Shishkin painted Russia’s pine forests with a botanist’s eye. Learn how Morning in a Pine Forest was made, who painted its bears, and why it endures.

October 10, 2026October 11, 2026
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII (1913)
Exhibitions & Events

Kandinsky, Klee, Malevich at Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia

Kandinsky, Klee and Malevich meet Russian icons and documents at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia, read through Pavel Florensky’s reverse perspective.

October 9, 2026October 10, 2026
Isaac Levitan, Alps / Snow (1897)
Exhibitions & Events

Fragile Art: Pastel at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Around 200 pastels from the 18th to early 20th centuries, from Erikssen’s portraits to Levitan, Serov and Vrubel, on view at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

October 8, 2026October 9, 2026
Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1833)
Exhibitions & Events

Russian Museum in St Petersburg: The Collection Tourists Miss

The Russian Museum in St Petersburg holds the world’s largest collection of Russian fine art, from icons to Malevich. See what tourists miss and why it matters.

October 7, 2026October 8, 2026
Monet to Kandinsky: Nature & Modernity at Palazzo dei Diamanti
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Monet to Kandinsky: Nature & Modernity at Palazzo dei Diamanti

Palazzo dei Diamanti traces European painting from Barbizon landscapes through Impressionism to abstraction, with works by Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky and Mondrian, 19 Sep 2026 to 10 Jan 2027.

October 6, 2026October 8, 2026
Ilya Repin, Portrait of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1883)
Exhibitions & Events

The Tretyakov Gallery: A Merchant’s Gift to Russia

How a Moscow textile merchant’s private collection became the State Tretyakov Gallery, home to Repin, Kramskoi, Surikov, and Levitan. History, works, legacy.

October 4, 2026October 5, 2026

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  • Point and Line: Malevich and Kandinsky, Tretyakov Kaliningrad
  • Our Twentieth: 20th Century Art, Krasnoyarsk Surikov Museum
  • Malevich FLY at Igor Burganov Academy of Arts, Moscow
  • Vasily Vereshchagin: The War Painter Who Showed Battles Without Glory
  • Ivan Shishkin: Forest Painter Behind Russia’s Most Copied Canvas
  • Art History
  • Art Periods & Movements
  • Artists
  • Cultural Impact
  • Exhibitions & Events

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      • Quick Answer
  • What Is the Tretyakov Gallery?
  • A Merchant’s Eye: Pavel Tretyakov’s Early Collecting
  • From Private Rooms to a Public Trust
  • The Peredvizhniki and the Birth of a National Vision
    • Why did the Wanderers break from the Academy?
  • Portraits of a Patron: How Artists Saw Tretyakov
  • Ivan Kramskoi and the Painter as Public Intellectual
  • Ilya Repin: History, Portraiture, and the Weight of Russian Life
  • Vasily Surikov and the Drama of Russian History
  • Isaac Levitan and the Mood Landscape
    • What makes a landscape a ‘mood landscape’?
      • Look Closer: Look closer at Repin’s portrait of Tretyakov
  • Viktor Vasnetsov: Folklore, Fairy Tale, and the Gallery’s Own Face
  • The 1892 Gift: When a Private Collection Became a National One
  • The Building Itself: A Fairy-Tale Facade on Lavrushinsky Lane
  • Notable Works in the Collection
  • Historical Impact: Shaping What ‘Russian Art’ Means
  • Legacy and Modern Relevance
  • Common Misconceptions About the Tretyakov Gallery
  • Related Movements and Connections
  • Essential Points
  • Frequently Asked Questions
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