Album 361
(Translated by Grif)
We continue our walk through the Russian Museum.
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It happens quite often while photographing a large place like a palace: you just can't recall which room is which. Especially if you don't have a guidebook, as I did.
That's why I hope you can help me to recollect those names. |
| Room with few famous paintings by Vasily Surikov (1848-1916). On opposite wall is "Vzyatie snezhnogo gorodka" ("Storm of Snow Fortress"). |
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Another epic painting of his: "Pokorenie Ermakom Sibiri" ("Conquest of Siberia by Yermak") |
Acclaimed painting by I.E. Repin "Ceremonial session of the State Council on May 7, 1901". He worked on it for 2.5 years, completing in 1903.
Hall surrounding gives you a feeling of how huge this painting is. It's almost 9 meters long!
Before 1917 revolution it was displayed in Mariinsky Palace. |
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I got excited not much by the painting itself ("Quiet" by N. Dubovskoy, 1890), but by title's verbose translation to English :) |
| Scene from an old Russian tale "How Mice Buried the Cat". |
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Landscape with the Swan's Canal.
Summer Gardens is on the left, Mikhailovsky Castle is directly ahead. |
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Scale model of the monument to Tsar Nikolas I on St. Isaac' square.
The caption says:
"To Nikolas, Emperor of Whole Russia, 1859". |
The vase from the early 1830s.
Made by the Emperor's Porcelain Factory. |
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And now we can proceed to the final album about the Russian Museum. |
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