Museum of Russian Art - Tour to Kiev

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).

Museums

Water Museum Kiev-Pechersk Monastery Lavra National Music Academy of Ukraine. P. Tchaikovsky Museum of eminent Ukrainian culture - Lesia Ukrainka Michael Staryts The National Museum of the History of Ukraine National Art Museum of Ukraine National Museum of Literature in Ukraine Observatory museum Kiev memorial house-museum of Mikhail Bulgakov Circus museum Museum of Miniatures Paleontological museum Museum of sewage of Kiev Ivan Honchar Museum Toy museum Pedagogical Museum of Ukraine Museum of history of toilet A museum of history of cars is in details Kiev Museum of Wax Figures

Kiev Museum of Pushkin State Museum of books and printing of Ukraine The State Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art Golden gate, museum, branch of the National preserve Sofia Kievan Pharmacy-museum Museum of Sports Glory of Ukraine Aviation museum Museum of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Museum of hetmanship Museum of Russian Art Mamaeva Sloboda, ethno-Center National Museum of Natural History Kiev fortress, Hospital stronghold Historical and Memorial Museum of Grushevsky Museum of history of Kiev Bogdan and Varvara Khanennko museum of arts (Easten and western arts museum) Museum Chernobyl National architecture and life museum «Pirogovo» Taras Shevchenko museum

One Street Museum The memorial complex "The National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Medicine museum "Art Arsenal, the museum complex of culture and art The Central State Archive of Literature and Arts of Ukraine National Reserve "Sophia of Kyivskaya" State Historical-Architectural Reserve "Ancient Kiev" Kiev Literary-Memorial Museum-Apartment Tychina Museum St. Andrew Museum Cyril Church - architectural monument of XII century. " Kiev literary-memorial museum of Maxim Rylskogo Kyiv Childrens Art Gallery Literary and Memorial House-Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kiev Maria Zankovetskaya Memorial Museum Museum of Historical Treasure of Ukraine (The National Museum of History of Ukraine branch) State Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Art Museum of Beekeeping P.Kavaleridze Museum-Workshop Museum of Culture Heritage