The Ostrogozhsk Art Gallery is a monument to the great artist and citizen Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy. It was one of the first art museums in Russia established upon public initiative.
In 1907, packages with paintings, drawings, and sketches started arriving at Ostrogozhsk. On June 22, 1908, the first exhibition was opened in a rented space. In 1910, the gallery welcomed its first visitors in its new premises constructed specifically for the museum. A second story was added to a firehouse building based on the project of the painter’s son — the architect Nikolay Ivanovich Kramskoy. The construction was supervised by the engineer Vadim Bryullov, the son of the painter Pavel Bryullov.
The gallery had a rather small but representative collection of authentic paintings, drawings, and statues by Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Russia’s most prominent painters, Kramskoy’s students and associates, their family members, and the Academy of Arts volunteered to contribute to establishing the gallery. Until the Great Patriotic War, its collection was growing. In 1942, the museum suffered greatly. The building was destroyed, and the museum’s collections were partially lost. Luckily, some of the most valuable works had been evacuated. In 1957, the paintings returned to Ostrogozhsk.
It was one of the first Russian art museums established upon public initiative. Today, the Ostrogozhsk Museum of History and Art houses original masterpieces by distinguished Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries: Ivan Kramskoy, Vasily Polenov, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Efim Volkov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Shishkin, Carl Lemoch, and others. The exhibition also includes paintings by Kramskoy’s students — Mikhail Shcherbatov, Elizaveta Boehm, Yekaterina Zarudnaya-Kovas — as well as his fellow townsman and the founder of the Voronezh Drawing School Lev Solovyov, and the artist’s daughter Sophia Junker-Kramskaya.
In 1907, packages with paintings, drawings, and sketches started arriving at Ostrogozhsk. On June 22, 1908, the first exhibition was opened in a rented space. In 1910, the gallery welcomed its first visitors in its new premises constructed specifically for the museum. A second story was added to a firehouse building based on the project of the painter’s son — the architect Nikolay Ivanovich Kramskoy. The construction was supervised by the engineer Vadim Bryullov, the son of the painter Pavel Bryullov.
The gallery had a rather small but representative collection of authentic paintings, drawings, and statues by Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Russia’s most prominent painters, Kramskoy’s students and associates, their family members, and the Academy of Arts volunteered to contribute to establishing the gallery. Until the Great Patriotic War, its collection was growing. In 1942, the museum suffered greatly. The building was destroyed, and the museum’s collections were partially lost. Luckily, some of the most valuable works had been evacuated. In 1957, the paintings returned to Ostrogozhsk.
It was one of the first Russian art museums established upon public initiative. Today, the Ostrogozhsk Museum of History and Art houses original masterpieces by distinguished Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries: Ivan Kramskoy, Vasily Polenov, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Efim Volkov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Shishkin, Carl Lemoch, and others. The exhibition also includes paintings by Kramskoy’s students — Mikhail Shcherbatov, Elizaveta Boehm, Yekaterina Zarudnaya-Kovas — as well as his fellow townsman and the founder of the Voronezh Drawing School Lev Solovyov, and the artist’s daughter Sophia Junker-Kramskaya.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
