The Pushkin Museum I have been busy this week researching the history of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury will close at the end of October to embark on its £8 million capital project. While it is closed some of its artworks will be travelling to Moscow to feature in an exhibition […]
Category: Exhibitions
Repin Retrospective
This year is the 175th anniversary of the birth of the wonderful Russian artist Ilya Repin (1844 to 1930). To celebrate this the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is staging a retrospective exhibition but sadly it will be over before I plan to be in Moscow later this year. Repin’s paintings are amazingly varied. He produced […]
Peter the Great at the Queen’s Gallery
Portrait of Peter the Great of Russia by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 1698. This picture of Peter the Great is one of many interesting works that can be seen at the exhibition Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs, currently running at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The picture features in my talk ‘The Bronze Horseman‘ which tells […]