
On September 20, 2005 the Mariinsky Theatre Opens It's 223rd Season
Playbill For September 2005
Playbill For October 2005

- Andre Brasilier. Paintings, ceramics, tapestries
6 September 2005 - 6 November 2005
This exhibition of works by Andre Brasilier marks the first time the artist is being shown in Russia.
The exhibition has been organized by the State Hermitage together with the Galerie de Bussy, Paris.
The more than 100 exhibits splendidly complement the museum's own collection of 19th and early 20th century
French art that is shown in the General Staff building.
- 17th - 19th Century Silver Filigree from the Orient in the Collection of the State Hermitage
The State Hermitage
5 July 2005 - 25 September 2005.
The exhibition in the Blue Bedroom of the Winter Palace in the Hermitage is devoted to one of the most
complicated forms of decorative and applied art - artistic creations from fine silver wire made by masters
of India, China and Southeast Asia.
- The Art of 18th and 19th Century Tula Arms.
The State Hermitage Collection. Menshikov palace
8 April 2005 - 8 January 2006.
The exhibition in the Menshikov Palace includes more than 100 examples of Tula arms production from the Arsenal collection
within the State Hermitage, which is considered one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The Hermitage Exhibitions to open

- MARKUS TOLLMANN
1 September - 3 October 2005 Marble Palace
For the first time a personal exhibition of the German artist Markus Tollmann will take place in the Russian Museum.
Some 200 works will be present: paintings, graphic art and sculpture of various periods of the master's works from 1990-s till nowadays.
- MARC CHAGALL
30 June - 20 September 2005 Benois Wing
The oeuvre of Marc Chagall is for the first time presented so completely in St Petersburg. The exposition includes 65 paintings
and 82 graphic works. The exhibition includes works from the Russian Museum collection, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the National
Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Musee national Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice, the Beieler Foundation in
Basel, museums of Pskov, Saratov and Tula, Isaac Brodsky Memorial Museum in St Petersburg and private collections in Russia and abroad.
GALLERY OF RUSSIAN PORCELIAN
- First exhibition from the Private Porcelain Factories in Russia
The Stroganov Palace
The Russian Museum owns one of the world's best collections of porcelain manufactured by Russian porcelain factories
(Imperial Porcelain Factory, Popov, Kornilov, Kuznetsov and Gardner factories).
The collection consists of more than 10 000 items. The exhibition soars with the produce of the Gardner Porcelain Factory
- one of the biggest private enterprises in Russia. For over two centuries the factory was a successful competitor of the
Imperial Porcelain Factory. This is the first ever large-scale exhibition of Gardner porcelain.
Over five hundred exhibits - services, vases, porcelain plastics - reflect all the stages of porcelain production in Russia.