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Article: Landscape in the age of Tolstoy: later this month, an exhibition of nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting opens at the National Gallery, London, after being seen in Groningen.(Exhibitions)
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For the first time in almost thirty years Russian art will be shown in Eng and, when, on 23 June, the National Gallery in London unveils an exhibition of masterpieces of nineteenth century Russian landscape painting. It has been organised in collaboration with the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands, where the exhibition was first seen. Paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian State Museum in St Petersburg join works from the art museums in Kiev and Nizhni Novgorod. At the opening in Groningen, ex-president Mikhail Gorbachev praised the exhibition's initiative and pleaded for more cultural exchanges between 'east and west'.
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