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The wife and lifelong companion of Dmitry Mikhailovich Krasnopevtsev (1925–1995), Lydia Pavlovna Krasnopevtseva (1925–1999), donated around seven hundred works to the Museum of Private Collections. S...
Alongside works of painting and graphic art, the Museum of Private Collections also exhibits animal sculptures from the collection of Yevgeny Yakovlevich Stepanov (1900–1991). Yevgeny Stepanov’s inte...
In 1996, Fyodor Victorovich Lemkul (1914–1995) and his wife Ekaterina Petrovna (1916–1996) presented the Museum of Private Collections with their unique collection of West European and Russian glassw...
Books and publishing played a prominent role in the life of Mikhail Ivanovich Chuvanov (1892–1990). Working his way up to become the head of a printing house, Chuvanov was a connoisseur of bibliograp...
Tatyana Alexeyevna Mavrina (Lebedeva) (1900/02–1996), an honoured artist and illustrator, and her husband, the artist Nikolai Vasilyevich Kuzmin (1890–1987), collected Russian icons and applied art. ...
Room 203 contains a small but comprehensive collection of Russian Realist paintings from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. The collection of Sergei Vasilyevich Solovyov (1876–1936) was...
The collection of Ilya Samoilovich Silberstein (1905–1988) occupies a special place among private collections in post-revolutionary Russia. This reason lies not only in the sheer quantity of works by...
The Museum of Private Collections opened its doors to the public on 24 January 1994 at 14 Volkhonka Street, next door to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centur...
The Museum of Private Collections is one of the youngest and most unusual in Russia. The history of this institution dates back to 1985, when the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts decided to create a Depar...