St. Petersburg, Russia - The exhibition of Yury Hrzhanovsky (1905 - 1987), disciple of Pavel Filonov, will be on view through 12 May  in the State Russian Museum. About 50 paintings and more than 150 graphic works by the artist will be presented. Among them there is "The Siberian Partisans", big pictorial panel that was shown on the well-known exhibition of Filonov's disciples in the Print House in 1927. The artist's drawings from the period of working in the Filonov's studio and his earlier artworks that were created in the years of studying in Irkutsk will be presented for the first time.
 
In 1930s Hrzhanovsky began to work on stage as professional artist, but he didn't give up with painting. Watercolors of the 1930s and the 1950s are the extensive series of landscapes and genre sketches. His artworks of the late period of the 1960s and 1980s took on frequently a pointless character. They are connected with drawing of music that the artist loved during his lifetime.

All the artworks with the exception of the afore-mentioned panel that belongs to the Russian Museum, were given on the exhibition by the artist's family. For the first time viewers will see the artist's works that were created during all his lifetime, and one more name will be recovered to the Russian culture.

The State Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art.

The Russian Museum collection contains circa 400.000 exhibits. The main complex of museum buildings - the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing - houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The museum collection embraces all forms, genres, schools and movements of art. Visit The State Russian Museum at : http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/museum/