Sculptures

This period is represented by 318 items in the collection.

More than 50 of them came from the Museum of Old Petersburg and the Museum of the City, including the gifts of the famous architect, Chairman of the society of architects-artists, count P.Y.Suzor, President of the Museum Council, the publisher of the magazine "Old years" P.P.Weiner, a member of the ... ↓ Museum Board, art historian, historian of St.Petersburg V.Y.Kurbatov, member of the Museum Board, collector, philanthropist L.I.Zheverzheev.

The portrait gallery of the Russian Grand Dukes, tsars, emperors and empresses forms a significant part of the collection. Among them there are portraits of Chancellor N.P.Rumyantsev, General A.P.Yermolov, engineer A.A.Ioss.

Among the exhibits received from the City Museum, housed from 1918 to 1928 in the Anichkov Palace, there are elements of the decoration of the Palace interiors.

In 1949 the Artillery Museum has passed to our museum the portraits of Grand Dukes Konstantin Pavlovich and Mikhail Pavlovich, horse images of emperors Nicholas I and Alexander II, formerly in the collections of regimental museums and the Museum of the Society of Zealots of History. ↑

This section mainly presents the works by St. Petersburg sculptors.

A large group of sculptures were received from the Museum of Defense of Leningrad after its liquidation in 1949. These are the portraits of the defenders of Leningrad: pilots V.A.Matsievich, I.M.Shishkan, S.G.Litavrin, partisans: C.D.Karitskoy, A.W.Herman, B.I.Eren-Price, A.Petrova, Junior girls - air ... ↓ defense fighters, nurses.

In 1950-1970-ies the collection was replenished with the active participation of the Culture Committee of the Leningrad Executive Committee. The works of sculptors were purchased at the annual exhibitions of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of the USSR. At this time the Museum actively cooperated with the factories of the Leningrad branch of the Art Fund of the USSR. Orders of the Museum for the manufacture of the series of sculptures for thematic exhibitions of the Museum were performed by famous masters T.F.Linde, B.E.Kaplyanski, M.M.Kharlamova and also young sculptors who just started their careers — A.G.Traugot, L.K.Lazarev. Today these items represent independent artistic value. ↑

This section has a little over 200 units.

The objects, typical for the interior decoration of the St. Petersburg houses in XIX – early XX centuries, which reflect the tastes of different segments of the population form the bulk of the collection.

The gifts to the city from foreign delegations of about twenty countries worldwide form a separate ... ↓ group, illustrating the wide foreign relations of Leningrad. The gifts to the 70th anniversary of I.V.Stalin were received from Communist organizations and individuals and given to the Museum after the disbandment of the Exhibition of gifts to Stalin, held in the Museum of the Revolution and the State Museum of the History of Art. ↑