Like the giants of the Renaissance period, Mikhail Vrubel, a major Russian Symbolist and Art Nouveau master, was richly talented. He displayed his artistic abilities in various ways: he painted large-scale pictures and monumental panels, drew virtuosically, illustrated the classics of Russian literature and proved to be a talented sculptor and set designer; he was successful in his sallies into architecture, fashion design and printmaking. An elevated spirituality characterises the portraits that he painted of his contemporaries, works that are imbued with Russian and classical mythology and classical literature. A happy fate befell the master's artistic legacy: having once been a powerful influence on contemporaries, it never lost its relevance over time. The paintings Girl with a Persian Carpet in the Background, The Demon (Seated), The Swan Princess, his illustrations to the works of Mikhail Lermontov and compositions imbued with images from Alexander Pushkin (Prophet and Six-Winged Seraph) have become part of the golden treasury of Russian culture.

"The grasp of personality and psychological acumen as well as sheer painterly virtuosity made Serov's portraits great works. Mounting a large display of Serov's paintings without any portraits (except the painting of his children on the shore) is a bold decision (like exhibiting Claude Lorraine without his landscapes). Showing Serov in his late symbolist works, many rustic scenes, and vitriolic political satire on the 1905 revolution gives a sense of his range, but it does not change the basis for his greatness." -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.

The Diaghilev. The Beginning exhibition is another of the Russian Museum's tributes to the memory of one of the "superstars" of the receding 20th century, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev.' In 2009, on the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the triumphant Saisons Russes in Paris, St Petersburg pays honor to one of her sons, one who during his lifetime failed to receive due support for a single one of his undertakings. During his early "Russian" period he had to overcome many obstacles to realize his projects, inasmuch as even such forward-thinking contemporaries as Vladimir Stasov and Nikolai Mikhailovsky failed to properly and objectively appreciate the essence of the Diaghilev phenomenon and the innovations in Russian national art connected with it.

The second installment of Icons of Modern Art, the major exhibition organized by Fondation Louis Vuitton, brings together more than 170 unparalleled masterpieces from the collection of modern French and Russian art created by the Muscovite brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. Following the exhibition of the collection of Sergei Shchukin, Fondation Louis Vuitton continues its exploration of the cultural and intellectual world of Russia's collectors and patrons, pioneers of modern art. Presented for the fi rst time outside Russia, the Morozov collection includes iconic works by Manet, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Sisley, Cйzanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Denis, Maillol, Matisse, Marquet, Vlaminck, Derain, and Picasso, alongside works of celebrated Russian artists from the turn of the twentieth century, such as Repin, Vrubel, Korovin, Golovin, Serov, Larionov, Goncharova, Malevich, Mashkov, Konchalovsky, Utkin, Saryan, and Konenkov. The unprecedented presentation of work by these artists represents an exceptional opportunity for discovering them anew. The philanthropic brothers Mikhail Abramovich Morozov (1870-1903) and Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1871-1921) dominated Moscow's cultural life from the end of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth century, along with the Tretyakov, Mamontov, Ryabushinsky, and Shchukin families. Their unconditional support of European and Russian contemporary art was integral to the international recognition of modern French painters.

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