

During the period of the initial organization of the museum and the first post-revolutionary years, its collection of painting was augmented by works from the Hermitage, the Academy of Arts, major private collections and former palaces. The museum was also already acquiring works directly from exhibitions and artists' studios at the very start of the century. After the closure of the Museum of Art Culture in 1926, its collection of mostly avant-garde art was inherited by the Russian Museum almost in its entirety. Later, the collection was added to by gifts from collectors, artists and members of their families, as well as by acquisitions.The Russian Museum's collection of paintings by artists working in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries currently numbers more than 10,000 works.
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I.Nikitin. Portrait of a
Field Hetman. 1720s |
Louis Caravaque. Portrait of the
Tsarevna Anne Petrovna and the
Tsarevna Elisabeth Petrovna. 1717 |
I.Vishnyakov. Portrait of
Sarah Eleonora Fairmore. 1749(50?) |
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A.Antropov. Portrait of
Rumyantseva. 1764 |
D.Levitsky. Portrait of
A.F.Kokorinov. 1769 |
Unknown Artist. The Building of the
Twelve Ministries in Saint-PÅtersburg.
Third quarter of the XVIII century. |
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F.Rokotov. Portrait of Countess
Yelizaveta Santi. 1785. |
D.Levitsky. Portrait of Yekaterina Khruschova and Yekaterina Khovanskaya. 1773 (not later) |
D.Levitsky. Portrait of Catherine II – the Legislatress
in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice. 1783 |
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