Astrakhan art gallery began with the enthusiasm of a private collector, whose name it now bears - Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin, it was he who intended to donate his collection to the city back in 1916. Today it is one of the best galleries in the Volga region; it is located in the former estate house of merchant I.N. Plotnikov, built in 1905-1909 and is an architectural monument.

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The art gallery was founded on December 15, 1918 by Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin, an engineer from a family of Astrakhan merchants. He collected art objects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and after the revolution he donated his collection to the city. The collection included more than 130 works of Russian painting and graphics, as well as autographs of historical figures, writers, musicians and family library. In addition to the collection, it was also transferred own house Pavel Mikhailovich (now this is the house at the address: Krasnaya Naberezhnaya, 39).

The cultural and educational department of the Astrakhan provincial executive committee accepted works of art and began creating a working art museum, which was opened on December 15 under the name “Art Gallery and Museum of the Council of Trade Unions of the Astrakhan Territory named after the founder P.M. Dogadina." Among the organizers of the museum, in addition to Dogadin, were Astrakhan artists Vlasov, Kotov, Tokarev, teacher Perov and others.

Simultaneously with the Dogadin collection, the gallery received two more private collections - the Austro-Hungarian vice-consul in Astrakhan Otto von Wiblinger (porcelain, glass, painting, sculpture) and the Sapozhnikov family, wealthy Astrakhan fisheries owners.

From 1918, the gallery was located in Dogadin's house, but the house could no longer accommodate the growing collection, and in 1921 it was moved to a larger mansion, former house merchant I.N. Plotnikov, where it is located today.

In 1993, the first branch of the gallery was opened - the House-Museum of the poet V. Khlebnikov, and in 2002 the second branch - the Art and Memorial Museum of the painter B.M. Kustodiev, where a collection of works of Russian and Soviet fine art is collected.

Over the years of its existence, the museum changed its name - from 1922 to 1928 - the Astrakhan Art Gallery, from 1929 to 1948 - the Astrakhan State Art Gallery, from 1949 to 1957 - the Astrakhan Regional Art Gallery, and in 1958, by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR it was named after B.M. Kustodiev, who had nothing to do with the collection of the museum itself. And only in 2008 it was decided to return the name of P.M. to the gallery. Dogadina.

Exposition

In the gallery you can see a collection of paintings and graphics by representatives of Russian art from Old Russian period(icons of the 16th century) to the present day, as well as with works foreign art. The exhibitions are located in 23 halls of the merchant mansion on a total area of 1200 square meters. meters and are divided into three components: Russian art, contemporary art and foreign art. The gallery's collection consists of more than 19 thousand items.

The Russian Art Department has a small but interesting collection ancient Russian art, which includes icons from the 16th to 19th centuries (the doors of the entrance gates of the Astrakhan Assumption Cathedral, which are an example of Russian applied arts end 17 - beginning 18th centuries). The department presents works by remarkable portraitists F. Rokotov, D. Levitsky, V. Borovikovsky, paintings by A. Venetsianov, I. Levitan, A. Savrasov, I. Repin, M. Nesterov, K. Korovin, B.M. Kustodieva (22 paintings and more than 100 graphic sheets), I. Goryushkin-Sorokopudov, P. Vlasov and others. The exhibition also presents works by Russian sculptors of the late 18th – early 20th centuries: F.I. Shubin, F.F. Shchedrin, M.I. Kozlovsky, I.P. Vitali, V.I. Demut-Malinovsky and others.

Department contemporary art(until the 1990s, the department of Soviet art) was formed by 1939. It includes works of art dating back to the 1910s. The collection is diverse in genre and thematic terms and includes two stages: art Soviet period and the modern period. The collection includes works by artists of the “Russian avant-garde”, works by artists who were part of creative associations early 20th century " Jack of Diamonds" and "Blue Rose". Works by Astrakhan masters occupy a special place in the collection.

The existing exhibitions of the department of foreign art were formed in 2009; they are located in 4 halls of the two-story building of the former service wing of the Plotnikov estate. Here you can see works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied arts dating back to the 17th century. The collection of paintings was mainly formed by the 1980s; its first exhibits (works by French artists of the second half of the 19th century) were donated by the founder of the art gallery, Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin. The collection contains works European art German, Austrian, Italian masters 17-19 centuries, owned by the Sapozhnikov family of fishing merchants and a freelance representative of the Austrian trade mission in Astrakhan, Otto Yakovlevich Wiblinger. The exhibition of Western European decorative and applied art also includes items from the 18th and 19th centuries, transferred in 1929 from the State Museum Fund. The department also houses the Engraving Room (opened in 2009). The office is dedicated to Ivan Akimovich Repin (1841-1908) - bibliophile, collector and philanthropist, who donated his library to Astrakhan in 1926. The donated collection included about 10 thousand engravings of the main Western European schools of the 16th-19th centuries. Including the monumental opus of the Luxembourg Gallery, engraved from the paintings of P. P. Rubens (1577-1640), the famous “Windsor” portraits of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), works executed in the color dotted technique by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815 ), works of famous Italian artists and engravers Federico Barocci (1535-1612) and Giovanni Piranesi (1707-1778), a grotesque sheet by Petrus van der Heyden (1530-1576) based on a drawing by P. Bruegel the Elder “The Kitchen of the Fat,” prints by early German lithographers and other works.

The Astrakhan State Art Gallery is named after an outstanding Astrakhan citizen - Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin (1876-1919). Coming from a merchant family, a mechanical engineer educated in Moscow, Pavel Mikhailovich donated hometown its unique collection, which included more than 100 works of graphics and painting, a collection of autographs, a library, furniture, as well as a small mansion on the Embankment of the river. Kutum, No. 39, where his collection was originally located.

The gallery is located in the building former estate I.N. Plotnikov, which is one of the most beautiful city buildings, but with a very difficult fate.

A luxurious three-story mansion was built on Birzhevaya Street (today Sverdlova Street) in 1906-1908 by Ivan Nikolaevich Plotnikov, who came from a respected merchant family. His father, a merchant fisherman, an honorary citizen of the city, Nikolai Ivanovich Plotnikov, became famous for the construction of the Winter Theater (today a drama theater) in Astrakhan.

Ivan Nikolaevich Plotnikov was a highly educated person; he graduated from St. Petersburg Technical University with a degree in industrial engineering. From 1893 to 1905 he performed job responsibilities city mayor. He was the chairman of the commission to monitor the construction of the Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.

Since 1918, the sanitary department in charge of all infirmaries was located in the non-residential premises of the house for some time. And in 1925, the Plotnikov mansion was completely nationalized.

Reliable information about future fate The once richest Astrakhan family no longer exists. However, in Astrakhan you can hear a parable that after the mansion was taken away from the Plotnikovs, they lived in the attic for some time, earning a living by doing auxiliary work in an art gallery, and after the Bolsheviks shot Ivan Nikolaevich, they left from Astrakhan.

From 1941 to 1944 the collection was in conservation. First, the evacuation hospital of the Defense Committee, then the NKVD hospital for prisoners of war were deployed in the building of the art gallery. Only towards the end of 1943 did the museum again take over as the owner of Plotnikov’s mansion.

Over the decades, the gallery’s collection has been replenished with valuable exhibits from the State Museum Fund, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, as well as items from private collections, remove the colon of the Astrakhan merchants Sapozhnikov, non-staff vice-consul of the Austro-Hungarian trade mission Otto Yakovlevich Wiblinger (1857-?), merchant-philanthropist Ivan Akimovich Repin (1841-1908), collector Alexander Alexandrovich Perov, artist and teacher Evdokia Irodionovna Neshmonina (1871-1961), the Vinogradov family, the Kustodiev family, the artist May Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov (1925-2008), etc.

The artists themselves donated their works to the gallery, including famous Astrakhan residents - Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878-1927), whose house-museum is located nearby, and Ivan Silovich Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873-1954).

Today, the museum’s funds store more than 19 thousand artistic objects. Among them is a collection of icons of the 17th-19th centuries, paintings by Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (1735-1808), Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (1799-1852), Alexei Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780-1847), Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857), Vasily Grigorievich Perov (1834-1882), Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897), Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898), Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835-1909), Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841 or 1842-1910), Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (18 44 -1927) and many other masters.

Turn of the XIX-XX centuries. represent the works of Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900), Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov (1865-1911), Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910), Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942), Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947) and others.

The pride of the collection is the collection of Russian avant-garde, represented by works by Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944), Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935), Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov (1882-1943), Robert Rafailovich Falk (1886-1958), Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887 -1985) etc.

The exhibition of the Department of Foreign Art presents collections of paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts of countries Western Europe, Asia and the East of the 18th - early 21st centuries. The department has opened an innovative exhibition hall"Engraving cabinet" with current model engraving machine of the 17th century.

Two years after the opening of the gallery, the Dogadin surname disappears from its name: 1922-1928 - Astrakhan Art Gallery, 1929-1948 - Astrakhan State Art Gallery, 1949-1957 - Astrakhan Regional Art Gallery. From 1958 to 2006, the gallery bore the name of the Astrakhan artist B.M. Kustodiev, whose monument, made by the Soviet sculptor Boris Evseevich Kaplyansky (1903-1985), still stands in the courtyard of the gallery. In 2006, Dogadin’s surname was rightly returned to the historical name of the gallery.

, Sverdlova street, 81

Coordinates: 46°20′57″ n. w. 48°03′06″ E. d. / 46.349194° s. w. 48.0519111° E. d. / 46.349194; 48.0519111(G) (I) K: Museums founded in 1918

Astrakhan State Art Gallery named after. P. M. Dogadina includes works of famous Russian artists of the 18th - centuries. The collection of paintings from the late 19th - early 19th century is unique. centuries The Russian avant-garde occupies a special place in the collection. The gallery has a large collection of Western European engravings from the 17th -19th centuries. Collection of the Astrakhan State Art Gallery named after. B. M. Kustodiev is one of most interesting meetings The Volga region very fully and diversely represents the main stages of the development of Russian and modern art. An important place in the gallery's collection is occupied by the work of a native of Astrakhan, B. M. Kustodiev. Currently, the gallery has more than 19 thousand exhibits and is housed in 23 halls of a magnificent old merchant mansion.

Renaming and historical background

In June 1941, 20 works of Russian painting and graphics were transferred from the Astrakhan State Art Gallery to the Stalingrad Art Gallery.

July 12, 1941 at a meeting of the presidium of the Astrakhan branch of the Union Soviet artists it was recommended that the Astrakhan State Art Gallery take part in the joint organization of an exhibition dedicated to the history of the defense of Russia and the USSR, and donate reproductions and originals for it works of art. The Joseph Stalin steamship was used to transport the exhibition.

All transferred paintings were lost along with the collection of the Stalingrad Art Gallery during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Collections

Publications published by the organization

Astrakhan Art Gallery. - M.: Soviet artist, 1990.
Astrakhan Art Gallery. - Astrakhan: 1993.
Ilyina L. I.. History of the Astrakhan Art Gallery. - Astrakhan, 1994.
Petrova T. N., Sabashnikova M.. The beginning of the journey. - Astrakhan: 1994.

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The Astrakhan State Art Gallery is named after an outstanding Astrakhan citizen - Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin (1876-1919). Coming from a merchant family, a mechanical engineer educated in Moscow, Pavel Mikhailovich in 1918 donated his unique collection to his hometown, which included more than 100 works of graphics and painting, a collection of autographs, a library, furniture, as well as a small mansion on the Embankment r. Kutum, No. 39, where his collection was originally located.

The gallery is located in the building of the former estate of I.N. Plotnikov, which is one of the most beautiful city buildings, but with a very difficult fate.

Ivan Nikolaevich Plotnikov was a highly educated person; he graduated from St. Petersburg Technical University with a degree in industrial engineering. From 1893 to 1905 he served as mayor of the city. He was the chairman of the commission to monitor the construction of the Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.

There is no reliable information about the further fate of the once richest Astrakhan family. However, in Astrakhan you can hear a parable that after the mansion was taken away from the Plotnikovs, they lived in the attic for some time, earning a living by doing auxiliary work in an art gallery, and after the Bolsheviks shot Ivan Nikolaevich, they left from Astrakhan.

Over the decades, the gallery's collection has been replenished with valuable exhibits from the State Museum Fund, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, as well as items from private collections of the Astrakhan merchants Sapozhnikov, non-staff vice-consul of the Austro-Hungarian trade mission Otto Yakovlevich Wiblinger (1857-?) , merchant-philanthropist Ivan Akimovich Repin (1841-1908), collector Alexander Alexandrovich Perov, artist and teacher Evdokia Irodionovna Neshmonina (1871-1961), the Vinogradov family, the Kustodiev family, artist May Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov (1925-2008), etc.

The exhibition of the Department of Foreign Art presents collections of paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts from Western Europe, Asia and the East of the 18th and early 21st centuries. The department has opened an innovative exhibition hall “Engraving Cabinet” with a working model of an engraving machine of the 17th century.