Venue: Marble Palace (branch of the Russian Museum) Address: Milionnaya Ulitsa 5/1 Open: Wednesday to Monday, 10 am to 6 pm. Closed on Tuesdays Admission with museum ticket

This vast exhibition is an reconstruction of Museum of Art Culture - exhibition of modern Russian art which was open to public from 1921 to 1925. Kazimir Malevich played an important part in the creation of the original exhibit. The artists are grouped according to their style and direction, just as Maevich had planned. This world's best collection of the early 20th century Russian art starts with the Russian Impressionists and finishes with Russian Avant-garde. The list of names of "participating" artists looks truly impressive. It includes the Blue Rose (the Russian followers of Matisse), the Jack of Diamonds (the Russian followers of Cezanne), the Futurists (Puni, Filonov, Ekster), Cubists (Tatlin, Kulbin, Lentulov), Supermacists (Malevich, Popova, Rozanova), Goncharova, Larionov, Kandinsky, Chagall, Rodchenko, Grigoriev, Petrov-Vodkin, etc. The final room to the exhibition focuses on the French art from Monet to Picasso on loan from the Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin Art Museum. The catalogue of the exhibition is outstanding - don't miss it.