Museums: Vasily Tropinin’s Museum reopens after restoration

On March 18, 2011 a museum of the Russian artist Vasily Tropinin was reopened after the restoration.

Within the framework of the restoration works were restored the museum’s building and over 200 exhibits. Museum’s holdings number 3 000 storage units, including famous pictures “A lace maker” by V. Tropinin and Karl Briullov’s “The Portrait of Yevdokiya Mikhailovna Bakunina”.

The Tropinin Museum was founded in 1969 by the collector Felix Vishnevsky. Since then the museum’s collection has increased almost tenfold. The artist Vasily Tropinin was mainly famous as a portrait-painter. He was born in 1776 and remained a serf till 1823. It was already in 1824 that Tropinin was given freedom and became an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.