The museum of Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin has a unique exhibition of paintings by both the artist himself - a famous portrait painter, and other painters.
Faces of Moscow
Many people find boring historical facts in books difficult to perceive. Textbooks are dominated by dry information stuffed with dates and events. In order to somehow bring yourself closer to your ancestors, to imagine what people were like in the past, you should go to the museum. And of course, the most suitable institution of this kind is an art museum, where historical facts are described by their witnesses. People and events seem to be captured in photographs.
Few contemporaries can instantly recreate in their minds what a noblewoman or nobleman of the 19th century looked like. And how to distinguish them in appearance from the representatives of the merchant class?
Were there any special features in the faces of Muscovites of this period? How did ordinary people live, how did peasants have fun and work?
The museum of Tropinin and his contemporaries gives answers to all questions. For 150 years, Moscow has become completely different. Museum guides will tell you about all the changes. The faces in the portraits of that time do not look like the faces of contemporaries.
About the Museum
MuseumTropinin in Moscow first opened its doors in 1969. It is considered relatively new. Its founder was a certain Felix Vishnevsky, who decided to make a gift to his beloved city. Not only the mansion, but also two hundred and fifty paintings that were attached to it passed into the ownership of Moscow.
The philanthropist made generous gifts not only to the city. During the life of Vishnevsky, he transferred more than eight hundred paintings to various museums in Russia.
Representatives of the art exhibition did not limit themselves to donated masterpieces. They began to collect and their collection. Over the years of the museum's existence, there have been ten times more paintings.
The basis of the museum
The main highlight of the gallery's collection is Tropinin's paintings. It was he who was called the founder of the style of "Moscow painting". In the first half of the 19th century, the great artist was considered the favorite of the public. The whole town adored him.
The portraits created by the painter are still present in private collections around the world.
In addition to the works of Tropinin, the museum presents paintings by artists of the same period: Argunov, Vishnyakova, Antropov, Levitsky, Rokotov, Borovikovsky, Shchukin, Shchedrin.
Due to the atmosphere of a residential old house, the art museumTropinin fully covers the period of the first half of the nineteenth century. The gallery contains the best representatives of this time. Those that cannot yet be included in the current exhibition will definitely appear before the public later.
B. A. Tropinin
Vasily Tropinin, an artist, became famous as a pioneer of the Moscow style of painting. For him, there were two directions by which he was guided - realism and romanticism.
The great artist was born on March 19 (30), 1776, near Novgorod, in the village. Karpovo, and died on May 3 (15), 1857 in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. Since Vasily Tropinin, whose paintings are now exhibited in the central museum of the city, came from a serf family, his life cannot be called easy. Although the owner let the painter's father go, he gave his whole family to another count. The head of the family was forced to volunteer to be the manager of the current owner's house.
The new boss thought to make the young guy a confectioner, but his cousin insisted that the young man, who showed great promise in drawing, go to the Academy of Arts. Tropinin was taught in St. Petersburg by Shchukin Stepan Semenovich, who was a Russian portrait and watercolor painter, as well as a professor at the Academy of Arts.
His studies had to be interrupted at the time when Count Irakly Ivanovich Morkov moved to Ukraine, and Vasily's father died. Tropinin (artist) became manager instead of him. In Ukraine, he meets the love of his life - the beautiful Anna Ivanovna, and marrieson her. Their son Arseniy is also born there.
In 1812, together with the Carrots, he went to Moscow, where he continued to live in submission to the count. When Vasily was 47 years old, he became free. In the same year, he was given the title of artist for the paintings he presented. For the portrait of Leberecht, he receives the title of academician.
After gaining freedom, he began to do what he loved, teaching art to young students.
Painted his self-portrait Tropinin, already being a free man.
The portrait artist was awarded the title of honorary member of the Moscow Society of Painters.
During his life, Vasily Andreevich painted over 3000 portraits.
Famous portraits
The artist, who managed both to be in submission and to feel the taste of freedom, was well versed in both the life of the poor and the life of the rich. He painted portraits of all kinds of people. Everything that Tropinin experienced, the pictures reproduced in reality. Emotions and a special atmosphere were always conveyed in his drawings.
Among the artist's most famous works are the portrait of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Ustim Karmelyuk, Karamzin, Ber, a painting called "The Lacemaker", for which he was awarded more than one award.
Museum Building
The Tropinin House Museum is of high historical value. It was owned by Felix Wisniewski, who died in 1978.
The museum is located in his merchant's estate, which was built in the early 19th century. Zamoskvorechye is proud of this house, one of the few buildings of that period that have survived to this day.
A wooden outbuilding from 1883 has been preserved here. It appeared on the maps of the city in 1793. Alas, in 1812 the estate burned down. But they were able to rebuild it. Now a stone has been laid at its foundation and a wooden mezzanine has been built.
Inside you can see a cast-iron staircase, preserved from the 19th century to the present day.
Around the Museum
The Tropinin Museum is located in the very center of the city. From it you can go to the Kremlin. It is comfortably located between Bolshaya Ordynka and Bolshaya Polyanka.
Not far from the Tropinin Gallery there are also the Tretyakov Gallery, the Bakhrushin Theater Museum, the Ostrovsky House and so on.
The temples of the Resurrection of Christ, the Great Martyr Catherine, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Assumption of the Mother of God are adjacent to the building.
Visitors recommend
In the reviews that Muscovites and city guests leave after visiting the museum, there are the following comments and tips:
- take a guide who will tell the fascinating stories of all the paintings and shed light on the secret signs and mysteries of some works;
- pay attention to the interior of the rooms themselves, to the furniture that complements the atmosphere of an old merchant's house of the 19th century;
- glass, porcelain, beadwork, bronzes exhibited in the museum - part of the nineteenth century decorative and applied arts exhibition;
- portrait of the artist Tropinin is the starting point of the exhibition;
- it's better to come to the gallery several times:due to the fact that the room is small, and the collection of paintings is significant, museum staff change from time to time one work for another, taking them out of the fund.
Schedule and cost
There are two days off in the Glyptotek: Wednesday and Tuesday. Every last Monday of the month is a sanitary day.
You can visit the exhibition of artists on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. On Thursday, the schedule is as follows: from 13.00 to 21.00.
The museum ticket office has been open since its opening. It closes an hour before the closing of the exhibition itself.
As for the cost, every third Sunday of the month the entrance is free. Also, the fee is canceled for disabled people of the first and second groups, for war veterans and children under the age of six.
Adult ticket to the exhibition costs 200 rubles.
For beneficiaries, which include schoolchildren, pensioners, large families, entrance - 40 rubles.
The museum hosts a variety of workshops and performances.
At the box office you can find out about the availability of thematic excursions and new programs. Children are led to special paintings, interesting details are added to stories, questions about the exhibition are asked, and contests are created.
One of the recent fun challenges given to children at the museum was asking them to find occupations in portraits of people.
In 2011, after many years of renovation, the Tropinin Museum finally opened its doors to visitors. Since then, representatives of the gallery have been trying to followmodern trends, to attract more public attention to the paintings.
