The art collection of the Pavel Dogadin Astrakhan Art Gallery presents over 200 works by the prominent Russian painter Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev.
The first artwork of the collection was the painting “The Harvest”. It was acquired by the founder of the gallery Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin in 1916. The museum’s portrait gallery displays canvases depicting the artists Yury Korvin-Krukovsky and Nikolay Monakhov, Doctor of Physics Pyotr Kapitsa, Boris Kustodiev’s wife Yulia, Stepan Nikolsky and the composer Dmitry Morozov. The artist’s daughter Irina Kustodieva (1905–1981) donated to the museum drawings, studies, sheets of printed graphics, and sketches. The portrait of Irina Kustodieva is the pearl of the Astrakhan collection.
In total, the House Museum keeps 23 paintings, 97 drawings, 23 linocuts, 3 woodcuts, and 40 lithographs. There is also one sculpture — a portrait of the writer Fyodor Sologub, as well as four porcelain figurines cast according to the artist’s models. The museum has formed a photo archive as well.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.