Art and History Museum. A. V. Grigoriev description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Kozmodemyansk (Topic)

Kunsthistorisches Museum. A.V. Grigoriev description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Kozmodemyansk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The basis of the Kozmodemno cultural complex is the Art and History Museum. A.V. Grigoriev with a unique collection of original paintings by Russian artists of the 18-20 centuries, famous all over the world. This is a rare phenomenon for the Russian province.

In 1918, the Volga-Kama traveling exhibition was organized, accompanied by the Kazan artists P.A. Radimov and G.M. Medvedev in order to bring art closer to the people. In Kozmodemyansk, the exhibition was caught in the civil war and the further path was cut off by the front line. Accompanying artists open drawing courses in a small town and present picturesque canvases of the Gornomariy region to Russian art culture.

In September 1919, the first professional artist from the Mari people - A.V. Grigoriev created a museum based on a traveling art exhibition with an exposition of 40 items. Thanks to the founder, the museum collection was actively replenished with paintings and graphic works from the Moscow central repository of the state museum fund. In our time, the museum's exposition consists of works by artists of different trends, a collection of ancient porcelain, wood, bone, glass and metal products of Western European, Eastern and Russian masters of the 18-20 centuries. The pride of the museum are canvases: I.K. Aivazovsky, T. Neff, R. Sudkovsky, L. Kamenev, P. Konchalovsky, K. Makovsky, A. Korzukhin and many others, whose paintings make up the collections of world-class museums.

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