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The history of this place began long before it appeared. It began with a letter. In July 1914, a letter arrived from Mariupol City Duma. Directly from the Moscow branch of the Society of artists named after A.I. Kuindzhi, with a proposal to give the city ten paintings by the master. But at that time in Mariupol there was no place to place them. When the First World War later began - and even more so. The decision to open a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown was postponed for almost the entire 20th century. Kuindzhi himself never saw him - it was opened only on October 29, 2010, 100 years after his death.
The building that was chosen for the art museum was an old mansion in 1902 in the style of northern Art Nouveau. Initially, this mansion was born as a wedding gift from the chairman of the Mariupol Zemstvo Administration Gazadinov on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Valentina with Geotsintov Vasily Ivanovich, the founder of the Mariupol Real School. Then it was already used for another purpose. After the revolution, the building was nationalized and a library was placed in it, and then a historical archive.
During the great Patriotic war, he suffered partial destruction, but was later restored. Now the pharmacy warehouse is located in it. Only in 1997, the Mariupol City Council decided to transfer the building into communal ownership of the museum of local lore under another branch. The changes began with a restoration that took 13 years. And at its end, the doors of the museum were already open.
The first floor introduces visitors directly to Kuindzhi. Expositions were placed in three rooms, allowing you to get acquainted with the different stages of his life: photos, documents, letters, even pieces of furniture, so that you could feel the time in which he lived. The museum has copies of his life-size works. But also original work. In 1966, by decision of the USSR Ministry of Culture, the State Russian Museum donated three works by Arkhip Ivanovich to the museum - a sketch “Red Sunset” and two studies “Autumn. Crimea ”and“ Elbrus ”. The fourth room was occupied by the graphic and pictorial works of Kuindzhi's contemporaries: I.K. Aivazovsky, A.P. Bogolyubov, V.V. Vereshchagin, N.N. Dubovsky, L.F. Lagorio, I.I. Shishkin. , the museum’s art collection includes over two thousand exhibits: 960 graphic works, more than 600 paintings, 350 decorative and applied and 150 sculptures.
The history of this place began long before it appeared. It began with a letter. In July 1914, a letter arrived from Mariupol City Duma. Directly from the Moscow branch of the Society of artists named after A.I. Kuindzhi, with a proposal to give the city ten paintings by the master. But at that time in Mariupol there was no place to place them. When the First World War later began - and even more so. The decision to open a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown was postponed for almost the entire 20th century. Kuindzhi himself never saw him - it was opened only on October 29, 2010, 100 years after his death.
The building that was chosen for the art museum was an old mansion in 1902 in the style of northern Art Nouveau. Initially, this mansion was born as a wedding gift from the chairman of the Mariupol Zemstvo Administration Gazadinov on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Valentina with Geotsintov Vasily Ivanovich, the founder of the Mariupol Real School. Then it was already used for another purpose. After the revolution, the building was nationalized and a library was placed in it, and then a historical archive.
During the great Patriotic war, he suffered partial destruction, but was later restored. Now the pharmacy warehouse is located in it. Only in 1997, the Mariupol City Council decided to transfer the building into communal ownership of the museum of local lore under another branch. The changes began with a restoration that took 13 years. And at its end, the doors of the museum were already open.
The first floor introduces visitors directly to Kuindzhi. Expositions were placed in three rooms, allowing you to get acquainted with the different stages of his life: photos, documents, letters, even pieces of furniture, so that you could feel the time in which he lived. The museum has copies of his life-size works. But also original work. In 1966, by decision of the USSR Ministry of Culture, the State Russian Museum donated three works by Arkhip Ivanovich to the museum - a sketch “Red Sunset” and two studies “Autumn. Crimea ”and“ Elbrus ”. The fourth room was occupied by the graphic and pictorial works of Kuindzhi's contemporaries: I.K. Aivazovsky, A.P. Bogolyubov, V.V. Vereshchagin, N.N. Dubovsky, L.F. Lagorio, I.I. Shishkin. , the museum’s art collection includes over two thousand exhibits: 960 graphic works, more than 600 paintings, 350 decorative and applied and 150 sculptures.