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Russia Exhibition No.2: The Rumjantzev Palace
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5313-20: The Rumjantzev exhibition comprised solely paintings and drawings, as did the Red Palace event in Moscow a few days earlier. Three years later at the grand event at the State Hermitage Museum, a number of Katherina Minardo's sculptures were brought in for the occasion.
5313-21: The artist in front of her work in one of the great halls of the Rumjantzev.
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5313-23: The artist poses before several of her works, underneath great chandeliers installed by the Rumjantzev family in Imperial times.
5313-24: Katherina Minardo in one of the Rumjantzev great halls, illuminated by numerous windows and brilliant late spring sunshine.
5313-25: A close-up of the artist with one of her works, "The Messenger" -- the messenger being a bird arriving via the window.
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5313-27: Part of the Great Hall at the Rumjantzev. As can be seen by both interior and exterior, the Rumjantzev family knew how to "live well." However, the lavish expenditures that this home must have entailed and those of other aristocratic families could only have stoked the ultimate fervor of the Revolution.
5313-28: The artist with close-up views of several works.
5313-29: At the vernissage.
5313-30: The artist in front of several of her early graphic works.
5313-31: After the vernissage.
5313-32: Precisely what the photographer husband was thinking when he suggested this pose is lost to history, but a cosy corner for visitors to rest their feet and exchange the news.
5313-33: The artist in a smaller hall with several of her paintings.
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5313-35: After the vernissage.