The
museum's collections have been replenished with new arrivals. Irina Anatolyevna
Avsalomova, Associate Professor, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Honored
Teacher of Moscow State University, donated a screen in the neo-Gothic style,
created according to a sketch by the artist Mikhail Dmitrievich Ezuchevsky in
the 1910s, and portraits of Boris Vasilyevich Golikov and Nina Golikova in
childhood (1920s), performed by M.D. Ezuchevsky.
Mikhail
Dmitrievich Ezuchevsky (1879 - 1928) - Russian painter, graphic artist,
illustrator. In 1922, the artist was invited to work at the Darwin Museum,
where at that time there was an acute shortage of masters of historical
painting and portraiture. Over the years of work at the museum (from 1922 to
1928), Ezuchevsky created a series of paintings on the history of natural
science. The main vocation of M. D. Ezuchevsky was genre painting, thanks to
which the museum’s collections present a unique series of paintings that depict
scenes from the lives of great naturalists and thinkers of various eras. The
heroes of his works were Aristotle, R. Bacon, J. Kepler, N. Copernicus, G.
Galileo, D. Bruno, F. Bacon, I. Newton, G. W. Leibniz, I. Kant, O. Comte, G.
Spencer, E. Mendel, C. Darwin. According to A.F. Kots, M.D. Ezuchevsky “forever
left a bright mark on the history of the Darwin Museum.” A few years before the
First World War, M.D. Ezuchevsky met Ekaterina Golikova. He lived and worked in
her apartment on Arbat until the end of his life. Subsequently, her relatives
preserved the archive of the Ezuchevsky family and transferred it to the State Darwin
Museum.
17 January 2024
Re-exposition of the display case “Wetland complex of Losiny Island”
25 December 2023
Gifts to the museum: drawings by M. D. Ezuchevsky and a screen made according to the artist’s sketch
11 December 2023
The exhibition “Big Portrait for Small Company” from the collection of the State Darwin Museum opened in China
1 December 2023
“Image/s of the North in Russian and European art” Interdisciplinary scientific conference