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Far Eastern Art Museum in Khabarovsk

The Far Eastern Art Museum is more than just a good city or regional museum. The largest art gallery in the Far East, opening to visitors works of world-class artists, from Titian and Rembrandt to representatives of all areas of Russian painting.

The Far Eastern Art Museum is more than just a good city or regional museum. Actually, this is what his name says: the Khabarovsk Museum is not the largest art gallery in the Far East, which opens up works of world-class artists from Titian and Rembrandt to representatives of all areas of Russian painting to visitors. Visitors, most likely, even on weekdays will have to stand in a small queue - in Khabarovsk the museum is very popular. A full-fledged cultural center with a long history.

Since the early 1990s, the museum occupies a huge house on Shevchenko Street, near the Amur Embankment, in the historic center of the city. The building itself is outstanding (it houses the concert hall of the regional philharmonic society): the mansion of the Military Assembly, built at the beginning of the 20th century under the famous Governor-General of Amur Nikolai Ivanovich Grodekov and completed one more floor during World War I POWs. In the Military Assembly, local officers rested from the garrison boredom, which were occasionally joined by visiting guests like A.P. Chekhov: in 1890, during the Sakhalin journey, he studied European newspapers that were very late, ironically assessing in a letter to his family the promptness of the post office at that time.

The collection of painting, which became the basis of the art gallery, began to collect the same governor-general Grodekov. Incidentally, to Grodekov, in addition to his many merit, we owe a remarkable St. Petersburg monument - the Manchurian Shih Tzu Lions on the Petrovskaya Embankment, brought to the capital via Vladivostok from the Chinese Girin. The Khabarovsk Museum and the city on the Neva are connected not only by the name of Grodekov: the Far Eastern Museum, officially formed in 1931, received fifteen hundred works of art from the collections of various museums in the country, including the Hermitage. This “requisition” still gives rise to legends. One of them was even repeated by the former Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation: allegedly the Hermitage paintings were evacuated to the Far Eastern Museum during the war, and in gratitude for their hospitality, the Leningrad museum workers handed over a picture of Bruegel to Khabarovsk colleagues. In fact, no one, of course, did not intend to export pictures from Leningrad to Khabarovsk, and the Far Eastern Bruegel was the fruit of the state distribution of artistic values.

Anyway, thanks to this distribution and the subsequent collection of works of art, now in the Far East you can see the already mentioned Jan Bruegel the Elder, Titian, Rubens, the “Little Dutch”, the etchings of Rembrandt and Durer, Russian icons, sculptures of Italian masters and antique ceramics. From domestic painting - paintings by Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Levitan, Kuindzhi, Vasnetsov, Surikov, Repin, Kustodiev, Nesterov, Benoit, Petrov-Vodkin, Lissitzky, Sternberg, a large collection of Far Eastern artists, works of socialist realists and representatives of underground culture of the second half of the XX century.

Tourists should be interested in Oriental exhibits: collections of Japanese dolls, Japanese watercolors, Chinese porcelain and bronze. True, they are easier to see during the thematic exhibitions, since not all of them are included in the permanent exposition.

Exhibitions in the Far Eastern Museum are impressive diversity: from Chinese folk paintings to Salvador Dali. There are also quite exotic: prehistoric insects in amber, live Japanese peonies or tropical butterflies.

From time to time in one of the halls of the museum opens a mobile planetarium. The stationary dome planetarium in Khabarovsk has not been there since the early 1990s. Previously, it was located in the building of the Innokentievsky temple, but the church was returned to the church, and the planetarium never received a new house.

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In some manifestations, the museum can be called patriarchal in a good sense: at the entrance, visitors are given felt boot covers, the tour guides are excellently erudite, they are very hospitable to visitors - for example, you can take pictures recently without fear of a watchman shout or a fine. True, at exhibitions this is more difficult.

Today there are 12,874 exhibits in the collections of the Far Eastern Museum, among them there are 2,740 paintings, 5,832 graphic works, and 2,903 objects of ethnographic value.

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