At the State Pushkin Museum opened the exhibition the little-known wide audience of objects of art and applied Russian art of the late XVIII – early XX century from the collection of the family of the Moscow collectors Tatyana and Sergei Podstanitsky. Their rarities at the time included in the permanent exhibition and dissolved in it.
This family Union was born on the delivery of a candidate minimum graduate Institute of theory and history of art. For several years Podstanitsky managed to gather a unique collection and are constantly working with museums, in particular, has held dozens of exhibitions in cooperation with the Moscow Pushkin Museum. Now they have introduced more than 100 items, including portrait, miniature, landscape, genre paintings and graphics, porcelain. All exhibits are connected with Pushkin’s epoch, near and far around the chief poet of Russia.
the Exhibition is called “Our Pushkiniana”. Some part of the presented her works are in the collections of the famous dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, who called his collection “My Pushkiniana”.
In one of the halls presents a lifetime portrait of Peter I in armour, with ribbon of the order of St. Andrew. It was written by an unknown artist of the early eighteenth century and expanded at the time the Lifar collection. Several works from the collection Podstanitsky associated with the southern link of Pushkin. Among them “Pushkin in the yard of the Bakhchisarai Palace” Nikanor Chernetsov, written in 1837, probably, under impression of death of the poet. Pushkin the artist was familiar, and his painting “the Caucasus. View of Darial gorge” was in the office of the poet. This work participated in the Pushkin exhibition in Paris in 1937, was in the collection of Sergei Lifar and Podstanitsky purchased at a European auction.
the Crimea and the associated series of drawings by European landscape artist Carl Bossoli, who lived and worked in Russia until the early 1840’s. He was a court painter to Prince Vorontsov, and in his works we see the estate in Sochi that belonged to the hero of the war of 1812, General L. A. Naryshkin, cousin Vorontsov.
In “Onegin” hall presents watercolor portraits of contemporaries of Pushkin, written by Alexander Briullov, Peter Sokolov, Vladimir Gau. Among them – the portraits of Russian generals and of the Countess Natalia Zubova, the only daughter of Suvorov, which he affectionately called Suvorovskoi. After the death of father and husband, having a huge fortune, she devoted herself to raising six children, lived modestly in his Moscow house. In the winter you could see her daughters, to rake the snow in the yard. Preserved the memory of the way in 1812, when the convoy of Natalia Alexandrovna was arrested by the French army advancing towards Moscow. Upon learning that they face dochü Suvorov, the soldiers passed her, giving military honors.
In the Corner of the living room are the collection of miniature portraits, is very popular in the age of Pushkin. There are also images of women, who admired Pushkin, in particular Princess Elizabeth Vorontsova and her younger sister Elizabeth, in whose house in Presnya poet often visited. In one of the remaining albums Elizaveta Ushakova he did write, including wrote his famous “don Juan list”.
Space Garden pavilion, located close to, collection Podstanitsky is entirely. This part of the exhibition called “House collector”. And there is presented a portrait of his mother Russian impressionist Elena Kiseleva, the work of Vladimir Borovikovsky, son of the famous Luke Borovikovsky, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, which is valued Nicholas I. draws Attention to an unusual “Portrait of horse of the officer in the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty,” written in 1849, a Russian painter of German origin Alexander Schwab.
Willibald Richter – Viennese painter and painter of the first half of the nineteenth century traveled extensively throughout Poland and Russia. His watercolors “Crimea. View of the estate from the sea” and “Crimea. Estate” written in 1829. That same year include “the Crimea. Two ladies strolling on the shore” series, depicting one of the first trips of the family of Emperor Nicholas I in the Crimea. Here, the portrait of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Vladimir Gau. Daughter of Emperor Nicholas I Pushkin knew and described in his memoirs the circumstances of his death. Watch heavy cast iron “William tell” made on the Olonets metallurgical works in 1834.
Before the official opening of the exhibition, when the paintings still hung, formed the space, we managed to talk with Sergei Podstanitsky who came to see his rarities is located in the new interiors.
In this exhibition, for you who are primary – Lifar or Pushkin?
– of Course, Pushkin. Lifar there are not many – three or four subjects with liferisk origin. But it turned out the roll call. From Lifar we have received the most significant things connected with Pushkiniana in the first place, it is “Pushkin in the Bakhchisarai Palace” Chernetsov – a thing, in fact, created immediately after the death of Alexander on full-scale experiences. She was in the Lifar collection and the exhibition at the Pushkin in 1837 in Paris. Ilya Zilberstein published it in Soviet times, “the Parisian finds”, then she was lost. And found, by the heirs of widow Lifar, who put her on a small Swiss auction. Apparently, you pulled the contents of the attic or outbuildings. Many things have been incorrectly attributed or not attributed at all was, as KarTina Chernetsov identified at auction as “the city of Chernivtsi.” It happened because on the back of the hand Lifar was the inscription: “Chernetsov”. Invited likely specialist who knew how to read Russian, and he read it as Chernivtsi. Most of the presented here works, purchased at the European auctions.
– What is the relationship between Pushkin and levarem?
– Pushkin got Lifar inherited from Diaghilev. Diaghilev loved of Peter the great and Pushkin, and his love was passed on Lifar. He continued the work of Diaghilev, loved, and popularized these two historical figures. Probably, therefore, freeze-dried love Lifar to Diaghilev, Sergei, which is a lot for him.
It was a spontaneous purchase?
– In Lifar was tselenapravlenno search. He was looking for Pushkin rarities throughout Europe. Some part of them he inherited from Diaghilev, but apparently not so much. Much more he gathered himself, with the fees and the ability to buy the things from the Russian emigration.
your collection periodically put up?
We participate in various exhibitions in museums around the country. Only in the Hermitage over one of them, devoted to Potemkin, where we gave Potemkin a few things. Once a year we organize more or less a large exhibition together with some Museum. Last winter was a big exhibition of portraits from our collection in the Museum-reserve “Tsaritsyno”.
– taking the initiative Themselves?
– In different ways. Museum staff can’t know everything. If I know that someone from friendly museums and researchers makes the exposition for a certain topic, why not offer something decent that can brighten the exposure. With Pushkin Museum, we are long long time friends, participated in many of their exhibitions, gave some items to fill gaps. Since Pushkin’s theme we have quite a lot of interesting things, I wanted to make an exhibition dedicated to Alexander Pushkin and his era.
what’s your interest? You can in fact home to admire his collection. It is important to show his treasures to people?
to Brag, it was nice. This is one of the factors that drives any collector. Just something to find and purchase is half the battle. Want to see someone else saw it, appreciated it, admired and even criticized, gave valuable advice. The factor of bragging rights are quite important.
are You interested in old Moscow?
– Old I was always interested in. We live on Pokrovka and we have a Facebook virtual “Museum of Pokrovka and surroundings”. Partially we publish, there are things that are in our collection – photos, and not only terrain, but also ��yudey, which were photographed on Pokrovka in the early and mid-XX century, in the times of Stalin. All this is curious, at least for me.
What else you can find?
– of Course. With regard to local history material, then it very much. A huge number of auction Internet sites, where professionals, and sometimes the owners put up the good stuff and antique stuff. We were tracking them and buy something. If people don’t need, why not concentrate it in our hands?
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