The Museum of One Painting named after G. V. Myasnikov is a state museum, located in

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, Russia. It is a unique museum, which does not have analogies anywhere in the world. Its peculiarity is that it does not have a permanent exposition and that it only shows one painting.

Description

The museum contains only one hall, which introduces only one painting that is usually of great cultural significance. Before visitors can familiarize themselves with the painting, they watch a 45-minute film, describing the peculiarities of the exhibit, its history and the biography of the painter. Such a presentation, starred by famous Russian actors such as

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Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Ти́хонов; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky Posad – 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, S ...

Rostislav Plyatt Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982. Biograph ...

Oleg Yefremov Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов, 1 October 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – 24 May 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist ...

Oleg Tabakov Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (russian: Олег Павлович Табаков; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Biography Tabak ...

, Ya. Smolenskiy, provide visitors with the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of the times, when the painting was created, to become utterly absorbed by the critical points of the painter's life and to get acquainted with the major milestones of his work.

History

The museum was founded in 1983 on the initiative of Georg Vasilyevich Myasnikov, the second secretary of

regional committee of

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On 2 March 2002, the museum was named after him, and now on the front of the museum's building you can see a memorial tablet bearing his name. The museum has existed for about 25 years. During this time it has been visited by more than 400,000 people. The museum has presented such masterpieces as "The Conquer of Snowy Town" by

Vasily Surikov Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Russian: Василий Иванович Суриков; 24 January 1848 – 19 March 1916) was a Russian Realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illus ...

, "Major’s Matchmaking" by

Pavel Fedotov Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Федотов; 4 July 1815 - 26 November 1852) was an amateur Russian painter. He was only 37 years old when he died in a mental clinic. He has been compared to William Hogarth. ...

, "The Father’s Greatcoat" by V. Popkov, "Spring" by

Arkady Plastov Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov (russian: Аркадий Александрович Пластов; – 12 May 1972) was a Russian socialist realist painter. Biography Plastov was born into a family of icon painters in the village Prislonikha in ...

, "Ship Grove" by

Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Biography Shishkin was born to a Russian m ...

, "After the Battle" by

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, "Portrait of a Young Woman" by

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, "Abraham and the Three Angels" by

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...

, "The Magic Carpet" by

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Interesting facts

In 2006 Archbishop of Penza offered to introduce the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan from the collection of the . The museum building is considered to be an architectural monument of the 19th century.

References

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