List of museums in Prague will join the Museum of Russian Art

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List of museums in Prague will join the Museum of Russian Art

On December 7, Prague opened a private museum of Russian art, rare in its significance of cultural and community project outside Russia. It will be located in the historic center of Prague at Little Square (Malé náměstí), a stone's throw from the main attractions - the Old Town astronomical clock.
The idea of the museum belongs to living in Prague rossiyaninu Valeri Larionov, has devoted many years of painstaking search, acquisition and restoration of works of Russian artists. The initial exposition of the museum is made up entirely from his private collection. It includes 250 works of Russian artists of XVIII-XX centuries, and the list of authors has 150 names, including those from the golden treasury of Russian art. This Aivazovsky NK ("The burning ship at night" and "Sea near Yalta), AP Bogolyubov (Naples), Shishkin ("Stream"), Levitan II ("Evening on the lake"), Nesterov MV ("St Barbara"), IE Repin ("The path to July), etc. Some of the works in the museum are still considered lost to historians and art lovers. Now they again become available to the public.
The catalog, published to mark the opening of the museum, the deputy director of the Tretyakov Gallery, member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia Lidiya Iovleva expressed his pleasure that the collection of Valery Nikolayevich Larionov "grown to the level of the museum and found the room and museum status.
Opening of a museum of Russian art in Prague in conjunction with the approaching anniversary of the Czechoslovak unprecedented assistance program of the Russian emigration of the first wave, which began in 1921 and went down in history under the title "Russian campaign."

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