The russian museum is the world's largest museum of russian art, a unique architectural and artistic complex in the historical center of st. Petersburg. The grand opening of the russian museum for visitors took place on march 19, 1898. The basis of the russian museum's collection was objects and works of art transferred from the winter, gatchina and alexander palaces, from the hermitage and the academy of arts, as well as collections of private collectors donated to the museum. Today, the museum's collection contains about 400,000 exhibits and covers all historical periods and trends in the development of russian art, the main types and genres, movements and schools for more than 1000 years: from the 10th to the 21st century. The postage stamp depicts the mikhailovsky palace, on the margins of the postage block there is a fragment of the portrait of alexander iii by i. N. Kramskoy (state russian museum, 1886).
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