Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramsky

Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramsky was established in 1933 as the Museum of Fine Arts on the basis of combining the art collections of the former provincial museum and the Museum of Antiquities and Fine Arts of Voronezh State University. The museum is located in a building built in 1777-1779 in the Baroque style according to the project of the provincial architect N.N. Ievsky and is a monument of history and culture of federal significance. The oldest in the museum collection are collections of ancient Egyptian monuments and ancient art.

The collection of domestic fine art quite fully characterizes the various periods of its formation. Painting XVIII - the first half of the XIX century is represented by the works of major portraitists: A.P. Antropov, N.I. Argunov, K.P. Bryullov, V.A. Tropinin. Portrait and household genre of the II half of the XIX century is represented by the works of N.N. Ge, I.N. Kramsky, V.E. Makovsky, A.E. Karneev, T.G. Myasoyedov; landscape - images of Russian nature I.I. Levitan, V.D. Polenov, A.K. Savrasov. There are a number of works by painters A.A. Buchkuri, E.A. Kiseleva, P.D. Shmarov – students of I.E. Repin, who received initial artistic skills in Voronezh. Many unique exhibits are also in the exposition of Western European painting. The collection introduces the works of masters of the XV-XIX centuries of the main painting schools: Italy, the Netherlands, France, Germany.