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	The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
		In March 1998 the State Russian Museum, the world's largest museum of Russian Art, celebrated its Centennial.
		The museum, originally called the "Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III", was established in 1895 and opened its doors to the public on March 7 (19) 1898.
		This is the main building of the museum and showcases examples of Russian art from icons dating back to as early as the 14th century to modern canvasses from the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /museums/russian-museum.asp (283 words)

	Russian Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The State Russian Museum, formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, is the largest depository of the Russian fine art in St Petersburg.
		The museum was established on April 13, 1895, upon enthronement of Nicholas II to commemorate his father, Alexander III.
		The main building of the museum is the Mikhailovsky Palace, a splendid Neoclassical residence of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, erected in 1819-25 to a design by Carlo Rossi on Square of Arts in St Petersburg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_Museum (215 words)

	Russian Museum of St. Petersburg
		The Russian Museum is an institution which has been the home to Russian culture, in the form of art work, for the past 100 years.
		The Russian museum was established in 1895 as a “ art and cultural- historical museum.” The official name of the museum was The Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III until 1917.
		Russian Realism which was the style of many popular Russian artists from the mid to late 1800’s was quickly replaced by a new form of artistic expression which varied in style, but shared little if any similarities to the past styles.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pete8/pete8.htm (1425 words)

	The Russian Museum of Ethnography
		The Museum was founded as the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum in 1895.
		The Museum is located in the building constructed between 1903 and 1915 by the architect V.F.Svinyin in the style of Russian classicism and was the first State building in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century to be built as a specialized museum complex.
		In 2003 the Russian Museum of Ethnography started realization of the continuous program of the publications of the documents of the Ethnographic Bureau of Prince Tenishev which are stored in the archive of the museum.
	eng.ethnomuseum.ru (571 words)

	The State Russian Museum. editions.
		Palace Editions is the official publishing house of the State Russian Museum, which annually publishes books and albums, catalogues of the museum collections and exhibitions, reports and collections of scientific researches, museum periodicals in Russian and in foreign languages, as well as booklets and reproductions.
		Russian Museum publications can also be acquired from the bookshop in the Russian Museum.
		Slide-films are made by the Russian research and practice centre of museum pedagogics problems of the State Russian Museum.
	www.rusmuseum.ru /eng/editions (179 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - russian museum goes all out to promote modern artwork
		After all, the Russian Museum is perhaps the only state-run art collection in the country seriously interested in revealing all different varieties of contemporary Russian art.
		The Russian Museum, where the tour actually kicks off, will be enjoying three more projects after it parts with the first three, introducing local audiences to feminist art and some peculiar social projects, such as new designs for money.
		In the future, the Russian Museum looks set to continue being a host for the country's private arts galleries, and new projects are promised to follow shortly.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=13393 (512 words)

	Russia and Related Websites on the Internet
		State Darwin Museum - welcome to our cabinet of curiosities in which different animals with color divergence, exotic objects and other extraordinary exhibits are presented.
		Vernadsky Geological Museum - State geological museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
		Russian Imperial Style - introduction to the art and culture of Imperial Russia in the era of the Romanovs.
	www.russianstamps.com /links.htm (736 words)

	The Russian Museum
		The Russian Museum is the first state museum of the Russian fine art in the country.
		It was established in 1895 in St Petersburg under the decree of the Emperor Nicholas II.
		The Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a famous restoration centre, an authoritative institute of academic research, one of the major cultural and educational centres, research and methodological centre of art museums of the Russian Federation, overseeing activities of 260 art museums of Russia.
	www.rusmuseum.ru /eng (101 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - russian museum expands horizons
		With unparalleled expansion during the past 15 years, the State Russian Museum is alone among St. Petersburg cultural institutions in challenging the scale of the State Hermitage Museum.
		The Russian Museum is involved in running the annual Arts Square Winter Festival and also hosts concerts in the Music in St. Petersburg Palaces festival.
		Russian art is not well known abroad, because it was isolated from the rest of the world for so long.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=11203 (996 words)

	ART, PAINTINGS, ARTISTS, SCULPTURES, Russian Art, Buy, Sale, Virtual exhibition, add painting, free access, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was opened on March 7 (19) 1898 by decree of Tsar Nicholas II and was county's first ever state museum of Russian fine art, which was able to represent for the visitors the complete notion about history of it's development.
		In the hole it was less then 1500 units, which came chiefly from the Hermitage, the Museum of the Academy of Arts and from royal Palaces, and only to a much lesser extent from privet sources, such as the Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky collection acquired from his heirs.
		The ties of the Russian Museum with the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery permitted a mutually advantageous exchange of artistic treasures.
	www.artlist.ru /museums/museum.cfm?MuseumID=1 (1089 words)

	Exhibits
		Experience nearly a thousand years of Russian culture and history in a first-of-its-kind exhibit that features a remarkable display of artifacts from the State Russian Museum.
		The aim of this exhibition is to show the treasures of the State Russian Museum to the American public, taking viewers on a journey through 800 years of Russian history and culture.
		Russian Odyssey has been years in the making with community leaders from the sister cities negotiating an exchange of cultural and educational information.
	www.floridamuseum.org /russia.html (312 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		The director of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul was a participant at the meeting and presented a report on the situation in the National Museum.
		The museum staff's efforts to preserve the collections have been, and are today, exemplary, and thanks to their perseverance, large numbers of objects, although many damaged, are stored at the museum and in the Ministry of Information and Culture.
		The isolation of the museum, in the far suburb of Darulaman, was one of the factors that contributed to its deteriorated state.
	www.museum-security.org /02/139.html (6037 words)

	Russian Federation, Countries, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
		Pavlovsk is a superb palace and park ensemble of the late XVIII - begining of the XIX centuries which was esed as a summer residence of the Russian emperor Paul I and his family.
		It was founded in 1704 at Peter the Great's decree and served as the foundation for the St.Petersburg (and later Russian) Academy of Sciences and a number of the...
		The Pushkin Memorial Museum is situated in the center of Moscow in one of most beautiful streets of the city.
	wwar.com /categories/Museums/Countries/Russian_Federation (306 words)

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		Russian icons are an important part of medieval painting.
		Indeed, it was the picture gallery that formed the core of the Museum during the period of its foundation in 1895-97 and over the next decade or so.
		Later on the Museum amassed various collections of sculpture, graphics, and objects of decorative and applied art which were just as important, but for all their richness it is still the picture gallery that enjoys the greatest popularity.
	www.lycos.com /info/russian-art.html (574 words)

	St. Petersburg Travel Guide: The Russian Museum
		The State Russian Museum houses the world's largest collection of Russian applied and decorative art from the 10th century to the present day.
		It was originally constructed for Grand Duke Michael, the youngest son of Paul I. In 1895 the palace was given to "The Russian Museum of Alexander III" and in March 1898 the museum opened its doors to the public for the first time.
		The museum's greatest pride is its immense collection of 18th - 20th century paintings representing all major artistic trends in the Russian art.
	www.travelinrussia.com /petersburg_sightseeing/russian_museum.html (263 words)

	The State Russian Museum. Copying of oil paintings
		Some works by Russian masters were held in the Hermitage (which for a long time had the character of a palace collection of the imperial family); a few were in the Academy of Arts, where there were mainly works by its students, but most were in numerous private collections.
		For this reason, the establishment of the Russian Museum was an important event in the artistic life of the city.
		The State Russian Museum is one of the key scholarly/artistic entities in the Russia engaged both in extensively teaching about, exhibiting, and researching works, and in museum consultation.
	www.artsstudio.com /reproductions/new_rusmuseum.htm (872 words)

	Museums of Saint Petersburg
		All genres and schools of fine, applied and folk art from the 10th till the 20th century are presented in the museum.
		The main exposition of the museum enlightens the history of Russian navigation and Russian Fleet from the ancient time till nowadays.
		In the Soviet period a special museum that was meant to cover this field of knowledge broadly was established in Leningrad.
	www.saint-petersburg-hotels.com /museums.htm (598 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
		The 7th All-Russian Museum Festival Intermuseum 2005 took place in one of the pavilions of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow from 22 to 25 June.
		The successes of museums in Russia are reflected in the festival itself with singular clarity: the geographic scope of participation extends farther and farther and both the smaller municipal museums and the giants of the capitals alike feel ever more confident in this shared space.
		The common museum platform in the country which we have worked so hard to create and consolidate becomes evident and tangible in the context of the festival.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/2005/hm11_6_58.html (458 words)

	The State Museum Of Russian Political History
		According to the creators' projects it was considered to be the first Russian museum that would reflect completely how the revolutionary activities of the world were developed and improved.
		During the first 10 years the main goal was to form the collections that would demonstrate the history of class struggle in Russia and in West (from Pugatchev's rising to the beginning of the creation of socialism, from the Great French Revolution to the creation of the COmmunist International).
		Since 1955 the museum is located in two buildings that were built at the beginning of the 20th century, on Petrogradskaya side.
	eng.allmuseums.spb.ru /mus_politist/general.shtml (446 words)

	Unfinished Bass Museum Hosts Russian Avant-Garde Art in America - Find Articles
		The reopening of the expanded and renovated museum, with an elegant new addition designed by Arata Isozaki, was pushed from September 2000, to January 2001, then to May 1 and now to early November.
		A deluge was released by a faulty valve in the roof air-conditioning system, causing water to pour down through the interior of the walls in the new structure, damaging the high-tech wiring, soaking the insulation materials and warping the hardwood floors of the galleries.
		The museum managed to ready its potentially splendid space by May 16 for a curtailed showing [to July 1] of a group of 87 works, many never before seen in the U.S., drawn from 11 Russian museums.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_7_89/ai_76332983 (549 words)

	The Museum of Russian Art
		The Russian word “narod” means “people,” and narodnost’ literally means “people-ness.” It refers to the notion of art’s accessibility to the masses.
		Seeking to create work that was of their time, Repin and the other Peredvizhniki chose Russian subjects—landscapes, portraits, peasants, scenes from history, and revolutionaries—and rendered them in a realist style that they felt better captured contemporary Russian life.
		In fact, the group’s practice of organizing traveling exhibitions of its artists’ work may be seen as a parallel to the Populists’ “going-to-the-people” excursions to the Russian countryside, in which they sought to raise the social and political consciousness of the “benighted” rural population.
	www.museumofrussianart.com /articles/a20050625_JaneFriedman/JaneFriedman.html (3681 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - russian museum hopes to bring malevich to the masses
		But this is exactly what the State Russian Museum is trying to do, with two new exhibitions focusing on Malevich and his followers.
		The fate of Malevich's works is particularly dramatic as the Russian Museum, which received the lion's share of its current selection of the artist's works from his family after he died in 1935, became a virtual tomb for his paintings and drawings when Malevich was declared ideologically alien to Soviet culture.
		Museum officials were forced to hide avant-garde art every time they were expecting a inspection visit from the Communist Party culture bosses.
	www.sptimesrussia.com /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=13463 (775 words)

	Mikhailovsky Palace - Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
		The Russian Museum was established in 1895 and opened on March 14, 1898 in the Mikhailovsky Palace.
		So many pieces of art were donated to the Russian Museum after 1898 that an additional Benois Building was constructed in 1914-16 to house the growing collection of the museum.
		In the end of the 19th century the palace was bought by the government and was given to the newly-formed Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III.
	www.cityvision2000.com /sightseeing/museums/russian_museum/main.htm (376 words)

	Russian Museum Workers Troubled Over National Collections' Inventory - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A national association of Russian museum workers bristled at criticism that followed the thefts of $5 million worth of artworks from the famed Hermitage, accusing critics of trying to put state museums in private hands, AFP reported.
		The Union of Museums of Russia protested what it described as an attempt to use the thefts of 221 objects from the St. Petersburg institution to push the government to privatize national museums.
		The Union of Museums of Russia voiced support for Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, who has faced calls for his resignation over the thefts and who has said that pay for museum curators should be increased.
	mosnews.com /news/2006/08/16/witchhunt.shtml (631 words)

	The Vodka Museum / Museum
		In late modern Russian history, there was a period of time when a bottle of vodka became a kind of national currency, which was used to pay for all sorts of small services, and this way of payment was preferable to cash payments.
		The museum guides can explain to visitors what chekushka is, how big the traditional Russian cup (charka, cheporuha) is, how drinking houses, or kabaks, are different from tractirs that appeared in Russia in the 1880's, and what kinds of vodka were the most popular among members of different social groups.
		The larger part of the Museum's collection is devoted to the 20th century with all its upheavals and sharp turns of historic fate.
	www.vodkamuseum.ru /english/museum (1093 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The State Russian Museum, formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, is the largest depository of the Russian fine art in St Petersburg.
		The museum was established on April 13, 1895, upon enthronement of Nicholas II to commemorate his father, Alexander III.
		The main building of the museum is the Mikhailovsky Palace, a splendid Neoclassical residence of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, erected in 1819-25 to a design by Carlo Rossi on Square of Arts in St Petersburg.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Russian_Museum (188 words)

	Russian Archives Online > The Archives> Museum of Oriental Art > Introduction
		The Russian State Museum of Oriental Art was established 81 years ago as a combination of private collections (Prokhara, Ostroukhov, Faberge) related to the Far East and Middle Asia.
		The Museum also publishes brochures, catalogs, books, etc., and promotes the study of eastern culture through the Club of Young Oriental Researchers, which is attached to the Museum.
		The Museum of Oriental Art itself has the status of a scientific center.
	www.russianarchives.com /rao/archives/oriental/index.html (230 words)

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