Museum of Private Collections
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[edit] Description
Museum of Private Collections is a branch of Pushkin Fine Arts Museum since 1985. The museum, which was opened for public only in 1994, greatly differs from its “big brother”, being a quite, cozy place, where your mind and heart will peacefully enjoy the calm homelike atmosphere.
[edit] Collections
Museum offers private collections of families of artists and famous collectors, who donated their collections for this Museum. A founder of the Museum, literary critic, author of several books, Ph.D. in art history Dr. Ilya S. Zillberstein owned a large collection of more than 2000 pieces of art. Among other donators were E. Stepanov, T. Mavrina, and families of artists - daughter of artists Rodchenko and Stepanova, Shterenberg’s children.
[edit] Zillberstein’s Collection
Zillberstein’s collection includes an exclusive series of Russian Decabrists’ portraits by N. Bestuzhev, a large number of landscapes by Repin, Serov, Vrubel, Polenov, Shishkin and some other world-known Russian artists. An excellent collection “World of Art” shows the works by all artists of this society – A. Benua, K. Somov, M. Dobuzhinsky, B. Kustodiev, Z. Serebryakova, etc.
[edit] Lemkuls’ Collection
A unique Lemkuls’ collection of glassware acquaints the visitors with the examples of antique, Chinese, Indian, German, Italian and Russian decorative and applied art of different centuries.
[edit] Sergey Tretyakov's Collection
Sergey Tretyakov, the younger brother of Pavel Tretyakov, who established the Tretyakov gallery, was an art-lover as well, and his collection of European art is also exhibited in the Museum. It consists of the canvasses of French, German, Dutch and Spanish artists.
[edit] Rikhter's Collection
The collection of Svyatoslav Rikhter, a world-famous Russian pianist, occupies several rooms on the third floor of the Museum. He never collected anything, but had a great number of friends and admirers among artistic people, who presented him with various paintings and other pieces of art.
[edit] Russian Icons and Modern Art
The ancient Russian icons of XVI-XVIII centuries will also be of great interest for the visitors, and the works by Kandinsky, Manevich, Tyshler, etc. are the bright examples of different styles of modern art.[edit] Photos
