A. M. Vasnetsov Museum-apartment

The memorial museum-apartment of the academician of painting A. M. Vasnetsov is a department of the State Tretyakov Gallery All-Russian Museum Association. It is located in Moscow, in Furmanny Lane, 6, in apartment №21–22, on the third floor of a four-story building. The house was built in the early twentieth century. From 1903 to 1933, a great Russian artist, Moscow historian A. M. Vasnetsov, who made a significant contribution to the history of the city and Russian art, lived, worked and died in this house. The formation of the museum and its collection took place over many years: from the moment the idea of organizing the museum in 1956 to its full implementation in 1997 began. In 1956, it was 100 years since the birth of Apollinaris Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. The Moscow public petitioned the RSFSR Ministry of Culture to re-create its home workshop. On December 13, 1957, the Decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee "On the reconstruction of the artist's memorial workshop" was made. The city authorities have provided enormous assistance in resolving this issue. In 1960, thanks to the efforts of the artist's son Vsevolod Apollinrievich and his wife Ekaterina Konstantinovna Vasnetsov, a memorial workshop was opened to the public, in which the artist had been working for the past 15 years. In 1965, the Vasnetsovs transferred the large rooms to the museum exposition, while they themselves moved into the small ones. In 1986, by order of the USSR Ministry of Culture, the museum of A. M. Vasnetsov became part of the State Tretyakov Gallery All-Russian Museum Association.The artist’s son and daughter-in-law decided to bequeath a collection of paintings, graphics, artistic furniture, a family archive, a library and household items of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the state after his death. In 1997, under the will of E.K. Vasnetsova, all her property and apartment became the property of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Currently, the collection of the museum has about 8,5 thousand items. In 2003, a new exposition of the museum was opened, which introduces visitors to the home workshop, the memorial furnishings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the multi-faceted artistic work of Apollinarii Vasnetsov.