History and culture: The exhibition, dedicated to the history of national avant-garde of 1915-1925, in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "The apartment №5. On the history of the Petrograd avant-garde. 1915-1925" is opened on 8 September 2016 in the Marble Palace (the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg).

The exhibition will allow to get acquainted with a significant episode in the history of Russian avant-garde and artistic life of Petrograd during the World War I and the first post-revolutionary years. Apartment №5 (University Embankment, 17) - a specific address in Petrograd Academy of Arts building, where there was a service apartment by S. K. Isakov, stepfather, brothers Nicholas and Lev Bruni. Through memoirs of the critic and theoretician of the avant-garde N. N. Punin, this address gave name to the creative community of young artists, poets, writers, musicians, critics, gathered here in the mid-1910s.

Originated commonwealth here has gone beyond a specific time and place and became the symbol trends in the art of Petrograd, clearly distinguishable until the mid-1920s.

The exhibition allows you to restore the art world a hundred years ago and to this phenomenon as a significant Page Russian avant-garde, without which it will not be the full story.

The exposition consists of about 150 paintings and graphic works from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum, the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow and St. Petersburg private collections.