The inclusion of Crimea into the Russian Empire in 1783, the founding of Sevastopol, the life of the peninsula today and dreams of the future… Crimea is scientific, architectural and heroic… Each section of the exhibition is a separate chapter from the history of the peninsula.
Peter Vereshchagin “Ayu-Dag in the Crimea”. 1872. Photo: From the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum
“The unique atmosphere, unique views and special surroundings of the Crimean Peninsula have inspired artists and writers for several centuries. The results of this work are rightfully included in the treasury of world culture. The exhibition “Ours!” The Path to Benefit” is the largest exhibition project in Moscow dedicated to Crimea,” emphasized Marina Lyulchuk, director of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve.
The exhibition will take place in the Atrium hall of the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve and will be open until March 16.
– Lev Lagorio “Fish factory on the Black Sea. Mullet fishing in the Crimea.” 1885. Photo: From the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum
Direct speech
Vitaly Zotov, director of the Russian Art Gallery museum and exhibition center:
– The exhibition “Ours! The Path to Benefit” is a scattering of great names, a bright alloy of artistic images that make it possible through art to trace the significance of the Crimean Peninsula as a multidimensional sociocultural phenomenon. And at the same time, the project is a scientific research, an artistic “reconstruction” of a voluminous multicultural “cast” of two and a half centuries of study of Crimea and its influence not only on Russian culture, but more broadly – on our mentality in general. The exhibition offers the viewer a look at the phenomenon “Crimea is ours!” as an unprecedented media project stretched out over time, which has been going on for two and a half centuries.”
Source: rg.ru
