Malayaroslavet Museum and Exhibition Center

Maloyaroslavets Museum and Exhibition Center was opened on June 13, 1998.

I.A. Soldatenkov MBU is a multifaceted, multidisciplinary institution in which there are exhibition halls, permanent expositions based on the personal collections of artists I.A. Soldatenkov, O.B. Pavlov, V.D. Matveichev, excursion and tourist department, art salon “Etude”. To date, I.A. Soldatenkov MBU stores more than 13,000 unique items of national culture.

A descendant of the famous merchant-patron K.T. Soldatenkov Igor Alekseevich Soldatenkov (1934 – 2009) donated his own collection of paintings, Russian national costumes, photographs, graphics, books in the Church Slavonic language, items of copper and cult plastics of the 16th-19th centuries, a collection of Kaluga stove tiles of the 17th-19th centuries, which became the basis of the museum fund.

The exposition “Great kinship”, created on the basis of the personal collection of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Oleg Borisovich Pavlov, inventor of thermophosphate painting, great-grandson of the great Russian artist A.K. Savrasov, is the pride of our Center. The exposition introduces the history of the Savrasov dynasty in documents, photographs and paintings. A unique binocular stereoscope that gives you the opportunity to see the works of a photo artist of the silver age, the husband of the daughter of A.K. Savrasov, the manuscript of poems by the grandson of Savrasov, the painting of the great-grandson of the great artist will open new pages of Russian art.

Honorary citizen of Maloyaroslavets, Member of the CX of the Russian Federation, restorer Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Matveichev donated a collection of works made in the technique of "intarsia". In 2008, the Museum of INTARSIA was opened, in which more than 400 works of the master were exhibited.

The Center is a participant of many international and all-Russian exhibitions, competitions and festivals. Close creative ties have developed with the cities of Belgorod, Ryazan, Bryansk, Vyazma, twin cities Borisov, Dzerzhinsky and Serpukhov, in which paintings of artists of the Kaluga land were repeatedly presented. Thanks to the cooperation with the State Tretyakov Gallery, the editors of the magazines “Russian Art”, “Petersburg Artist”, “The World and Museum”, the museum and exhibition center takes part in various creative projects, such as “Modern patronage”. Artists, writers visiting Khanty-Mansiysk, “Artist and Time” in the State Art Museum of Belgorod and many others. Over 13 years of work, 300 exhibitions of various orientations were organized.

For 13 years, the Maloyaroslavets Museum and Exhibition Center has been organizing Maloyaroslavets art plein airs, in which artists from different regions of Russia and neighboring countries take part.