The memorial hall of the Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev House-Museum presents a large showcase with the painter’s personal belongings that were donated by his descendants, including Kustodiev’s paint cases, a palette, oil paint tubes, brushes, a box of pastels of the Moscow brand “Dosekin”, a chalk box and the German magazine Die Kunst.
Die Kunst was a monthly publication on fine and applied arts, printed in Munich, Germany, by the publishing company Friedrich Bruckmann. The quarto-format paperback magazine featured lots of high-quality illustrative photos and reproductions. It was highly praised by Boris Kustodiev.
On August 19, 1901, Boris Kustodiev wrote to the artist Ivan Kulikov,