АльбинаThe State Russian Museum
The Russian Museum is the world's largest collection of Russian art,
The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg was founded by Emperor Nicholas II. in honor of his father in 1895. He bought the Mikhailovsky Palace to house the collection. The architect was Svinyin.
The opening of the Russian Museum took place on March 19, 1898. The basis of the collection is objects and works of art transferred from the Winter, Gatchina and Alexander Palaces, the Academy of Arts, and donated to the museum.
The museum today is a large museum complex.
The museum's collection includes more than 400,000 exhibits from the period in the history of Russian art, from the X to the XXI century. Russian Russian Museum has Russian and Soviet fine art, sculpture and graphics, folk art.And the works of famous Russian artists - Ivan Aivazovsky, Karl Bryullov, Nikolai Ge, Mikhail Vrubel, Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Surikov, Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and many others.
The museum has a large collection of books, numbering more than 170,000 copies. The State Russian Museum today is a major center that oversees the work of accompanying all art museums in the country.
The Department of restoration of museum exhibits of the Russian Museum includes studios specializing in the restoration of exhibits; it has a chemical and biological research laboratory, as well as a department of theory and history of museum restoration