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      🖼 Museum of Russian Impressionism

      Ленинградский пр-т, 15, стр. 11

      A private museum in the former Bolshevik factory building with a collection of Russian painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

      Museum of Russian Impressionism
      © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
      Museum of Russian Impressionism
      © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
      • The museum's founder is the businessman Boris Mints, who has been collecting Russian painting since 2001.
      • The museum opened to the public on 28 May 2016.
      • The building, on the site of a confectionery raw-materials warehouse, was designed by the British firm John McAslan + Partners.
      • The earliest painting in the collection is "In the Ravine" by Vasily Polenov, 1879.
      • Many canvases were bought abroad and returned to Russia, for example "Summer" by Bogdanov-Belsky and "Venice" by Kustodiev.
      • The catalog of the exhibition "Other Shores" about the 1924 showing of Russian art in New York was named Book of the Year by The Art Newspaper Russia.

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      • Russian Impressionism and Bolshevik
      • All day: new Moscow, from factories to skyscrapers
      • The Bolshevik Factory and the Depot by Belorusskaya

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