Taganrog Art Museum

On the initiative of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, in 1898 in Taganrog city museum was opened.

In the new museum, a large art department was immediately allocated, in which works of the best Russian artists-contemporaries were exhibited: Vasilkovsky, Savrasov, Bilibin, Savitsky.

Subsequently, the collection of the museum was constantly replenished, there were paintings of such great artists as Polenov, Levitan, Kramsky and Malyavin.

In 1963, the museum’s art funds were so significant that it was decided to allocate it to an independent museum called the Taganrog Art Gallery, and since 2003, it has been called the Taganrog Art Museum.

The museum is housed in a nineteenth-century mansion and is an extensive collection of works of fine art (about 7 thousand), but the most valuable part of the collection is the collection of works by Russian artists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Visitors to the museum have the opportunity to see the paintings of such geniuses of Russian painting as Tropinin, Aivazovsky, Ge, Shishkin, Vereshchagin, Kuindzhi, Konchalovsky, Roerich.