Astrakhan State Picture Gallery named after P.M.Dogadin

The museum was opened on December 15, 1918 as the Art Gallery and Museum of the Council of Professional Unions of the Astrakhan Territory named after the founder P.M. Dogadin.

Pavel Mikhailovich Dogadin (1876-1919) – Astrakhan, merchant by birth, mechanical engineer, educated in Moscow. For several years, Dogadin enthusiastically collected objects of art. In 1918, he donated his collection to his native city, consisting of autographs, works of graphic art and paintings by Russian artists, a library, furniture and a small mansion on the Embankment of the Kutum River, 39, where the museum originally opened. Since 1921, the gallery is located in a building built in the early XX century and is now an object of cultural heritage of regional importance. This is the Estate of I.N. Plotnikov - a mansion with a wing and courtyard along the street. Sverdlova.

Over the years, the collection of the gallery was replenished with valuable items from the State Museum Fund, as well as objects from private collections. At different times, the gallery gave their works and the artists themselves, including the famous Astrakhan B. Kustodiev. All these contributions made the museum collection truly unique. Today, the collection of the gallery has more than 22,000 items.

The permanent exhibition of Russian art presents authentic objects created in the XVII-XX centuries. Among them are a collection of icons and works of decorative and applied art, paintings of the XVIII – first half of the XIX century: works by V. Borovikovsky, N. Argunov, V. Tropinin, A. Venetsianov, S. Shchedrin, K. Bryullov. Painting of the second half of the XIX century is represented by the works of A. Bogolyubov, A. Kuindzhi, I. Aivazovsky, A. Savrasov, I. Shishkin, I. Repin, V. Surikov, V. Polenov, I. Levitan. The art of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries is demonstrated by paintings by V. Serov, M. Vrubel, M. Nesterov, K. Somov, K. Korovin, N. Roerich. Among the works of sculpture are the works of M. Kozlovsky, F. Shubin, I. Vitali, E. Lancere, M. Chizhov, A. Golubkina. The special pride of the exposition is the collection of Russian avant-garde, which includes works by V. Kandinsky, K. Malevich, A. Lentulov, A. Rodchenko, I. Klyun, M. Chagall.