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	Institute of Russian Realist Art in Moscow
	IRRA is a private museum project aimed at reviving traditions of Russian patronage of arts. It has one of the finest collections of paintings of the 20th century national realistic school.
--28-03-2017--
	Symbolism in Russian Painting of the Silver Age, Part 2
	Symbolism in Russian painting is first of all associated with names of the Silver Age artists, namely Mikhail Vrubel, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Valentin Serov, Nikolay Roerich, Konstantin Somov and others.
--29-07-2015--
	Symbolism in Russian Painting of the Silver Age, Part 1
	Artists aspire to bridge the gap between mundane reality and the unseen realm of spirit. According to very many international critics, Russian Symbolism was the most successful in this noble mission.
--29-07-2015--
	Artistic Culture of the 19th Century, Part 6
	The Russian artists who turned to genre painting were V. M. Maksimov (1844-1911), G. G. Myasoyedov (1835-1911), A. I. Korzukhin (1835 - 1894), V. E. Makovsky (1846-1920), and others.
--19-09-2014--
	Russian Painting of the 18th Century
	The 18th century became the heyday of Russian painting. Russian portrait painting grew up to the level of the paragons of European art. Founders of the portrait genre were A.M. Matveyev and I.N. Nikitin. The former painted Self-Portrait with the Wife and portraits of the Golitsyn spouses.
--27-08-2014--
	Russian Painting of the 17th Century
	Established painting traditions remained to a great extent in the 17th century. The Council of 1667 strictly regulated subjects and images of painting, which was at the same time limited by order of the Russian tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
--28-07-2014--
	Russian Painting of the 16th Century
	The Moscow painting was largely presented by Dionysius, the most eminent artist of the era. Unlike most of the artists of that time, he was not a monk, but had a family with two sons who assited his work.
--16-06-2014--

News:

	Sotheby's Refuses to Remove Stolen Painting from Auction
	The Sotheby's auction house has not complied with the Russian Interpol’s request to suspend the sale of Evening in Cairo by Ivan Aivazovsky.
--01-06-2015--
	Exhibition of Artist Oleg Molchanov Held in Moscow
	The Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow opens an exhibition of works by the Merited Artist of Russia Oleg Molchanov today, February 12.
--12-02-2014--
	Emir Kusturica Receives a Painting For Visiting Tomsk
	As a thank-you gesture and in a bid to have the famous director visit Tomsk again, the city governor presented Emir Kusturica with a copy of Ivan Shishkin painting, In the Wild North.
--07-11-2012--
	Ponder on Idyll and Gloom of Soviet Life in Russian Museum
	The Russian Museum has opened the exhibition “Realism in Russian art of the second half of the 20th century”.
--09-07-2012--
	Russians in Naples: Kiprensky, Bryullov, and Ivanov at the Tretyakov Gallery
	An exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery explores the representation of the South of Italy in paintings by leading Russian artists of the 19th c.: Karl Bryullov, Alexander Ivanov, Orest Kiprensky, and others.
--06-12-2011--