State Russian Museum
The complete chronicle of Russian art, from its spiritual roots to its most radical experiments, housed in a sumptuous neoclassical palace.
The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg holds the largest collection of Russian art in the world, a journey that spans over a thousand years of history. Its collection is an essential complement to that of the Tretyakov Gallery, offering a complete narrative of the national artistic identity. It ranges from medieval icons to 18th-century imperial portraits, to the immense historical canvases of the Itinerant painters like Ilya Repin, up to an unparalleled collection of Russian Avant-Garde works, with key masterpieces by Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky.