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an artist little known in the West,
but who is reported to be President
Putin’s favourite. For those with more
traditional tastes, the museum also
displays canvases by landscape
painter Ivan Shishkin, another
St Petersburg artist (see pp22–3).
Ploshchad Vosstaniya
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The vast, imposing Plosh chad
Vosstaniya, or Uprising Square,
gets its name from the events of
February 1917, when a group of
Restaurant, a painting by Pavel Russian soldiers refused to fire
Filonov in the Russian Museum upon demonstrators, instead
taking up arms on the side of the
Russian Museum
2 discon tented masses. In 1985, it
was the scene of a walkabout by
This museum’s exhibits
explore the history of Russian art the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,
from 13th-century icons to modern who went into the masses to
master pieces. It con tains works by discuss the country’s prob lems.
per haps the greatest of the city’s
Armenian Church
avant-garde painters, Pavel Filonov, 4
MAP N3 • Nevskiy prospekt
AREA MAP OF GOSTINYY DVOR 40–42 • 570 4108 • Open 9am–8pm
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