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Das Kiever Museum für russische Kunst
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| Adress: | Tereshchenkovskaya Strasse, 9 |
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(044) 451-40-27 |
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www.museumru.kiev.ua |
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The museum was built in 1877-1884 by Hun and V. Nikolayev, in historicism style.
Hun worked out the interior decor and equipment for the house of Tereschenko, who was a famous Ukrainian sugar-manufacturer, collector and patron of arts in Ukraine. In 1922, the Kyiv Picture Gallery (it has been called the Museum of Russian since 1936) was opened there, the first collection of which was made up out of the nationalised resourses of the Tereshchenko, Hansen and some other families. Almost 12,000 units of painting, graphic art, and sculpture has been exhibited in the museum which made up one of the finest art collections in Ukraine. It is a home to a valuable collection of the 12th-17th-century icons, a magnificent collection of works of the artists of 18th-20th centuries: Aivazovsky, Antokolsky, Argunov, Borovykovsky, Favorsky, Fedotov, Ghe, Klodt, Kramskoi, Kustodiyev, D Levytsky, Martos, Nesterov, Polenov, Repin, Roench, Saryan, Schednn, Shishkin, Tropinin, Vasnetsov, Vereschagin, Vrubel and others. The life and cleative work of most of them are associated with Ukraine and Kyiv. The portrait-painter Levytsky, the Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was born in Kyiv. He was a son of the outstanding Ukrainian engraver of the Kyiv-Pechery Lavra printshop, Levytsky Ghe graduated from a Kyiv gymnasium, in 1847 he was a student of St. Volodymyr's University, lived in Ukraine for a long time and was buried in the Chernihiv region. Repin, who was born in the town of Chuhuyiv in the Kharkiv region, came to Ukraine more than once. He studied history, every-day life and culture of the Ukrainian people, which served as material for many works of him, including such a renowned canvas as The Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1878-1891) in which he depicted some famous figures in Ukrainian history. A statue of Repin stands at the museum entrance (sculptor Komov).
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