New 2005 season

Playbill For February 2005

Maslenitsa (Shrove-tide) at the Mariinsky Theatre

The exhibition presents around 90 paintings, starting with the Futurism of Italian abstractionists from the first half of the 20th century until 1950. The exhibits are on loan from the Italian Museum of Modern Art in Rovereto, Trento Province, and also from private collections around Italy.


- Mannerheim. Russian Officer. Marshal of Finland
25 January 2005 - 5 June 2005 The General Staff building

The monographic exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding statesman of Finland, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951). Mannernheim was a count, lieutenant general of the Russian Army, knight in several Russian orders, cavalry general, field marshal and marshal of Finland.

Faberge - Lost and Found
6 December 2004 - 13 February 2005

The Anteroom of the Winter Palace is showing the collection of one of the most important collectors of works by Faberge, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919-1990), editor-in-chief and president of Forbes Inc., who assembled his collection over the course of several decades.

Read the article on this colletion in our November Newsletter

Religious St Petersburg
The State Russian Museum
22 December 2004 - 10 May 2005 The Benois Wing

The exhibition will show the grand perspective of the development of the Russian ecclesiastical art and architecture within more than two centuries - from Peter the Great to Nicholas II - through evolution of art styles and political ideas connected with the religious traditions of the country.

Roads in Russian Art
The State Russian Museum
2 December 2004 - 4 April 2005 The Benois Wing

The exhibition showcases works of painting, graphic art, sculpture and folk art from the collection of the Russian Museum, including the works of such artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Victor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov, Sergei Korovin, Ilya Repin, Vasily Perov, Valery Jacoby, Ivan Shishkin, Alexei Savrasov, Fyodor Vasilyev, Isaac Levitan, Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. They are all united by one common subject - the theme of the road.