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Every third week of the month, museums, exhibition halls, and galleries participating in the Moscow Museum Week event offer a day when you can visit their venues free of charge. This year, some institutions are staggering their admission days for the convenience of their guests. To enjoy a free visit, you must register in advance by purchasing an e-ticket online. Mosbilet using Mos ID (mos.ru account). All details about visiting dates and participating museums are available on promotion page.
On Monday, October 13, the Panorama Museum will welcome guests. The Battle of BorodinoThere, you can view the central exhibit—the famous panorama of the Battle of Borodino, painted by the battle artist Franz Roubaud in 1912 for the 100th anniversary of the victory over the French army. Additionally, the museum is running the exhibition "Mate in Three Moves in a Complex Game" until the end of December. It's a chess metaphor for the military confrontation between Russia and France in the early 19th century. The exhibition features, among other things, a chess set, engravings, and portraits of generals who participated in the campaigns of 1805–1813.
The smoke of Borodino, the fakes of Austerlitz, and Napoleon's chess checkmate. Let's visit the Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum.
Multimedia Art Museum Open to the public free of charge on Tuesdays, it currently features several interesting exhibitions, including the second in the "Detective Stories from the Life of a Museum Curator" series. It features photographs from the 1950s to the early 2000s with fascinating stories, which curator Boris Misalandi is researching.
On Tuesday, you can also get acquainted with the works of the People's Artist of Russia, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Arts Vasily Nesterenko at the Chekhov House exhibition hall (Vasily Nesterenko Gallery). The artist is known for his monumental paintings dedicated to key events in Russian history. In particular, he participated in the creation and restoration of the interiors of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Wednesday is the day to visit the galleries of the Moscow Exhibition Halls association. At the Belyaevo Gallery, in the exhibition hall on Academician Varga streetGuests can embark on an interplanetary journey by exploring the educational exhibition "The Many Faces of Space." The curators have brought together photographs taken in space by cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Hero of the Russian Federation, works by artists Konstantin Batynkov and Sergei Chernov, memorabilia, and historical documents.
A Zagorje Galleryoffers a journey through time: the exhibition dedicated to life in the Soviet Union continues. Older visitors will definitely recognize the furniture, dishes, household items, and toys, while children can learn about their grandparents' lives (and, for example, see with their own eyes such amazing things as a rotary telephone or a movie projector).
"Journey to the USSR." What can you see at the exhibition at the Zagorje Gallery?
On Thursday, October 16th, we'll be heading to the Kuskovo estate, which is celebrating its 310th anniversary this year. You can explore castle, unique Grotto pavilion, Dutch house or portrait gallery— one of the most valuable Russian collections of portraiture and a true rarity of 18th-century Russian culture. The Kuskovo Portrait Gallery occupies a special place among 18th-century estate portrait galleries. Founded in the second half of the 18th century by Count Pyotr Borisovich Sheremetev, it represents a unique collection of 18th-century portraiture. It is a collection in the true sense of the word, not a collection of family portraits, which were virtually isolated and existed independently. All the portraits are grouped according to the original system: Russian monarchs and members of their families, Russian statesmen, and representatives of Western European ruling dynasties. The central focus is occupied by the portraits of Field Marshal Boris Petrovich Sheremetev and Countess Anna Petrovna Sheremeteva. This exhibition presents the gallery in its fullest form and as a unified whole for the first time since its dissolution in 1814.
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At the very beginning of October, it was 130 years since the birth of Sergei Yesenin, so on Friday you can go to Yesenin Centerand learn more about the life and work of "the last poet of the village." As part of the "Moscow Museum Week" campaign, guests of the Yesenin Center will be able to explore the exhibitions "Train No. 143" and "Frontline Soldier Konstantin Yesenin," dedicated to the Year of Defender of the Fatherland, free of charge. The exhibition project "1925. December" is dedicated to the last month of Sergei Yesenin's life. The exhibition details his feelings and emotions during this period, the memories of his loved ones, and the days following the tragedy. This project is a reflection on the immortality of the poet's creative legacy, which occupied a special place in Russian culture. Copies of documents from the archives of the Federal Security Service have been provided for the exhibition. As part of this collaboration, the Angleterre Hotel has donated furnishings from one of its guest rooms for display.
State Museum of the Defense of MoscowOpen free to the public on Saturday, the museum offers an exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Moscow. The exhibition, "The Great Feat of the Defenders of Moscow," chronicles all stages of the capital's defense—from the first days of the Great Patriotic War, the formation of the people's militia, and the repulse of air raids to the Soviet counteroffensive and the subsequent course of the war.
On Sunday, October 19, you can visit all branches free of charge. Ilya Glazunov Galleries, including expositions "Country house" And Folk Paintings.
The Ilya Glazunov Gallery is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, titled "I Must Immortalize the Events I Witnessed…." It features the painting "Roads of War," which the artist prepared as his graduation project at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. The concept came long before graduation. In this multi-figure, dramatic canvas, Ilya Glazunov wanted to express difficult childhood memories and embody a national tragedy. The first version of the work, created in 1957, has not survived. Today, the composition of "Roads of War" can be admired thanks to the artist's 1985 reprint. The original is held in the collection of the Abylkhan Kasteyev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, while the preparatory material—a general color sketch, as well as sketches and drawings from life—are in the collection of the Ilya Glazunov Gallery. The exhibition is open until December 14.
On Sunday, visitors are also welcome at the Gogol House. At the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth will showcase works by graduates of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art's free workshops. The exhibition "Russian School. Constellation"will introduce masters of Russian painting from the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes works by People's and Honored Artists of Russia, academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts: Evgeny Zakharov, Viktor Kalinin, Yuri Karapaev, Nikolai Kolupaev, Igor Orlov, Vyacheslav Stekolshchikov, Andrei Alekhine, Boris Vedernikov, Irina Rybakova, and Mlada Finogenova. In addition, the main exhibition will be available for viewing. Gogol's Houses— This is the only memorial museum dedicated to the writer in Russia. The interiors of the rooms where Nikolai Gogol lived have been recreated with documentary accuracy, and the mansion itself on Nikitsky Boulevard has witnessed many diverse chapters in our country's history.
The Moscow Museum Week event will run from October 13 to 19.
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