KUINJI APARTMENT MUSEUM

A branch of the Academy of Arts Museum
1/10 (Apt. 11) Birzhevoy pereulok 199034 St. Petersburg
Open: 11am - 5pm
Closed: Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays
Tel. 323-3133
Nearest metro station: Vasileostrovskaya

The apartment museum of the celebrated Russian landscape painter Arkhip Ivanovich Kuinji (1841-1910) opened in 1993. It is in this house that he spent the last years of his life (1897-1910).

The studio and a number of other rooms, including the study, dining-room and drawing-room, have been restored and open to visitors. The exhibition provides a lively account of Kuinji's life and work and his activities as the head of the Academy's landscape-painting studio and a member of the Society of Russian Artists. Works by Kuinji and his pupils and followers are to be seen, as well as the artist's personal belongings.