Russian Art Museum in Yerevan marks 40th anniversary 

ArmInfo.This year the Yerevan Museum of Russian Art turned 40 years old. The Museum first opened its doors to visitors on November 19, 1984.

For 40 years, the Museum, located in the very center of the city, has  been presenting works of Russian fine art, and temporary exhibitions,  events and educational programs constantly attract visitors with  their unique and interactive approach.

The Museum presents the collection of Aram Yakovlevich Abrahamyan,  which consists of paintings by K.A. Korovin, A.Ya. Golovin, A.N.  Benois, B.M. Kustodiev, P.V. Kuznetsov, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, N.S.   Goncharova and other outstanding masters of the turn of the century.  It also presents a number of paintings by artists of the early -  mid-20th century: B.D. Grigoriev, P.P. Konchalovsky, N.A. Udaltsova,  R.R. Falk.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Museum, a final event  was held, in which Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and  Sports of Armenia Alfred Kocharyan also took part.

Congratulating the Museum on such a significant event, he emphasized  that 2024 was also marked for the Museum of Russian Art by the  celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the museum's  founder, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize,  an outstanding representative of Soviet medicine, Professor Aram  Akopovich Abramyan.

, he noted.

Aram Abramyan began collecting works by Russian artists back when he  worked as a doctor. In particular, during the war (1938-1941),  Abramyan headed the urology department of the Leningrad Military  Hospital, after which he moved to work at the Moscow Regional  Research Institute (MONIKI), in 1949 he became the chief urologist of  the Kremlin Medical and Sanitary Administration, and from 1950 to  1975 he headed the Urology Clinic of MONIKI.

It was during this period that his history with collecting began. As  a token of gratitude for the treatment, knowing his love for art,  including poetry, literature, music, Abramyan was given paintings. He  began collecting them, studying them in detail, consulting with art  historians, giving them for restoration and then expanding his  collection.

And in 1977, Abrahamyan decided to donate this heritage to his  historical homeland. In April 1977, he wrote a letter to the  government of Armenia, in which, in particular, he said:

In making this decision, Aram Yakovlevich said that he wanted as many  people as possible to see all of this, to become involved in all of  this beauty. , - the professor noted then. In response to  such a noble gesture, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the  Armenian SSR Fadey Sargsyan wrote a letter to Aram Abrahamyan, in  which he said that the government of Armenia highly appreciates such  a noble intention and is ready to accept this gift with a feeling of  deep gratitude.  Sargsyan noted that a special section would be  allocated for the exhibition of the works in the newly built building  of the State Art Gallery, near which an appropriate apartment would  be equipped for Professor Abrahamyan to live. But in 1979, the  government of Armenia decided to provide a separate room for  Abrahamyan's collection, allocating the territory of the Fashion  House for their permanent exhibition.  Preparatory work began in  1980, and in 1984 the Museum of Russian Art in Yerevan opened its  doors to visitors.