From 25 January to 14 February, the exhibition “The greatness of Russian landscape”, devoted to the 180th anniversary from the date of the birth of Russian painter, aquafortist, aquarellist, landscape writer I.I. Shishkin (1832–1898), runs in the Visual Materials Reading Room (room 307).
"It is hardly that any other people enters into history with so rich coniferous fur on shoulders", – these words belong to writer L. Leonov and they are absolutely exact as if they have been said about truly Russian artist Ivan Shishkin from Vyatichi.
It is as if a Russian forest has waited for its artist. Even his surname is close in a meaning to a forest – Shishkin (a cone). He came out on the arena of world art from thick forests of the river Kama. In the forest of town Yelabuga he found beauty which he told to the world. He had a rare skill to express a Russian forest in a picture, but so that even a small blade on a canvas is visible and you can feel the smell of needles and flowers. His contemporary painters called him "the king of forests". They always admired how he "took a forest from nature" and put it into a picture. Shishkin’s creativity is the encyclopedia of heroic and epic Russian landscape.
The exhibition includes over 120 documents. These are albums, cards, calendars that unveil creativity of the well-known artist. There are reproductions of his works "The Oak grove", "Rye", "Wood distances", "Amidst the Spreading Vale…" and many other works in which Russian nature is shown in all its epic force, power and beauty. The exposition also contains correspondence and diaries of the artist, memoirs about I. Shishkin created by his friends who were consided as Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) such as I. Repin, I. Kramskoy, V. Perov. Rare editions of D.N. Kaygorodova "Besedy o russkom lese" (Conversations about Russian wood) (1885, 1899, 1903) and E.P. Vishnyakova "Istoki Volgi" (Sources of Volga) (1893), which have been illustrated by I.Shishkin, are also presents as exhibits on display.
The exposition is intended for all categories of readers.
Contact phone number: 293-27-58.
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