Museum of Artist and Storyteller S.G. Pisakhov

Museum of the artist and storyteller S.G. Pisakhov is located in the architectural monument of the XIX century. Stepan Grigorievich Pisakhov (1879-1960) was an artist, writer, traveler, teacher and ethnographer. The collection of the museum association contains about 300 paintings and graphic works by S.G. Pisakhov. His talent as a landscape painter was revealed in the image of the North, he managed to create a special image of the nature of the Arkhangelsk region, its white nights. “Pisakhov’s” pine trees became as household names as Levitan’s birches.

The renovated museum opened in March 2021 after a decade of restoration work and restoration of the exposition. He tells about the life and multifaceted work of Pisakhov in the context of time and history. Each of the eight rooms has its own plastic, color and light solution and is accompanied by quotes from letters, articles, fairy tales and travel notes of the artist and storyteller. The basis of the exposition is a collection of paintings and graphic works by S.G. Pisakhov from the collection of the museum association. It was organically complemented by letters, manuscripts, books, personal belongings and photographs of the artist and writer, objects of urban culture that characterize the time.

Tales of Stepan Pisakhov are revealed thanks to the author’s doll Elena Dikova, illustrations by Alexei Grigoriev and audiovisual installations. The life, customs and customs of the Pomors, the deep knowledge of which distinguishes Pyakhov’s fairy tales, are represented by objects of folk life, the Arkhangelsk goat, the connoisseur and collector of which was Pisakhov.