Over 50 thousand people visited the exhibition of the Russian Museum at VDNH

Russian Russian Museum In the month since the opening of the exhibition "The Image of Moscow in Russian Art from the collection of the State Russian Museum" at VDNH, it has been visited by over 50 thousand people. This was told by Deputy Mayor of the capital Natalia Sergunina.

"In the first month, the exposition attracted more than 50,000 Muscovites and tourists, and over 350 excursions were conducted around it," the vice mayor noted.

The exhibition will run until February 2026. It is open every day except Mondays.

115 works brought from St. Petersburg are presented in the halls of Pavilion No. 1 Central. Among them are paintings by Apollinarius Vasnetsov, Vasily Surikov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov. The exhibition will also introduce the masterpieces of icon painting by the masters of the Moscow school — Andrei Rublev, Daniil Cherny and Simon Ushakov. There are also works by Gerard Delabart at the end of the XVIII century. They depict pre-fire Moscow.

In addition, the exhibition contains works from the 1920s and 2010s devoted to the development of Moscow after the revolution, as well as the return of the city's capital status in 1918.

Another part of the exhibition features portraits of prominent 20th-century residents of the city, including Konstantin Stanislavsky, Svyatoslav Richter and Boris Yakovlev.

This exhibition opened a cycle of large-scale cultural events that will take place in the capital's museums.

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