Paintings by prominent Russian artists—Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov, Stanislav Zhukovsky and Igor Grabar, Konstantin Yuon and Boris Kustodiev, Pyotr Konchalovsky and Alexander Gerasimov—form the core of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Russian Impressionism.
The permanent exhibition at the Museum of Russian Impressionism spans a significant period of time. The earliest painting, «In a Ravine» by Vasily Polenov, the teacher of Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov, dates from 1879. Many of the paintings on display today were returned to Russia from abroad. Decades later, «Summer» by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky and «Venice» by Boris Kustodiev, both works by Pyotr Konchalovsky from the museum’s collection, and «Mountain Village» by Nikolai Dubovskoy returned to their homeland. The museum’s founder refused to allow Konstantin Korovin’s «Gurzuf» to leave the country. Paintings by Igor Grabar, Konstantin Yuon, and Yuri Pimenov, which everyone can see today, had previously been virtually never exhibited.
