The Hermitage and Famous Russian Collectors Exhibition Opening at the Art Gallery of Lipetsk Region

13 October 2009, The Hermitage and Famous Russian Collectors. Works of Western European Art of the 12th - 19th Centuries from the Collections of His Royal Highness Prince Alexander Gorchakov, Baron Alexander Schtiglitz, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky exhibition dedicated to three famous collections opened in the Art Gallery of Lipetsk Region. Diverse in character and different in their history of origin all of them made a significant contribution to formation of the Hermitage collections.

This is the fourth in succession exhibition organized by the State Hermitage in Lipetsk. It includes twenty five pictorial canvases of the 17th - 19th centuries and approximately sixty articles of applied art from the 12th till the 19th centuries from the collections of Prince Alexander Gorchakov (1798-1883), Baron Alexander Schtiglitz (1814-1884) and famous traveller and scientist Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827-1914) who was born in the territory of the present Lipetsk region.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue (Slaviya Publishing House, 2009). Exhibition curator is Ekaterina Nekrasova, junior research assistant of the Department of Western-European Applied Art of the Hermitage.

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Vladimir Matveev, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage, and Alexander Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky’s grandson, at the opening of the exhibition

Vyacheslav Shalnev, Director of the Art Gallery of Lipetsk Region

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At the opening of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Lipetsk Region