You will hear six people speaking about the Russian Museum.0:09
Listen and match what they say with the statements in your test book.0:14
There is one statement you don't have to.0:20
THE Russian Museum the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg contains the world's largest collection of Russian fine art.0:35
Altogether over 400,000 exhibits.0:48
Some of them are samples of ancient Russian painting.0:53
Some icons belonging to the brush of Andrei Rublev and Dionysi are among them.0:57
The collection also includes such gems as 18th century portraits by Rokatov, Levitsky and Borovikowski.1:05
And brilliant 19th century genre canvases.1:14
The museum's collection of sculptures is vast and interesting.1:20
The 20th century art in the Russian Museum is represented by the so called Soviet school.1:31
At the end of the 1980s, the museum opened the Department of Modern Art.1:36
Now visitors to the museum can see such new kinds of art as installations, video art, modern photography and others.1:41
This collection has been constantly growing.1:50
Besides, the museum houses about 30 temporary exhibitions annually.1:53
C the Russian Museum occupies not one, but four beautiful buildings in the center of St. Petersburg.2:01
The main one is the Mikhailovsky Palace.2:11
It bears the name of its first owner, Great Prince Mikhail Pavlovich, the younger brother of Emperor Alexander I. The palace was designed by the outstanding architect Carlo Rossi and built between 1819 and 1825.2:14
D the museum was opened by decree of Tsar Nikolai II and became the country's first state museum of Russian art.2:33
The first paintings and sculptures came from the collection of the Hermitage, the Museum of the Academy of Arts and from royal palaces.2:43
Some private sources also helped to enlarge the collection.2:52
For instance, Nikolai Lichachov donated his vast collection of Greek and old Russian icons to the Russian Museum.2:56
E the marble palace was built by order of Catherine the Great to the design of the architect Antonio Rinaldi.3:07
Nowadays, the palace houses the permanent exhibition called the Foreign Artists in Russia.3:20
It shows works by German, Italian, French and other European artists who influence the development of Russian art.3:27
F Not many people realize that the famous summer garden is also part of the Russian Museum.3:39
Its exhibits are a collection of sculptures and the Summer palace built for Peter the Great.3:47
The garden was laid out in 1704.3:53
Time has changed it, but the original planning remains the same as centuries ago.3:57
Peter the Great wanted his garden to be decorated with the best works of art that money could buy.4:03
So marble busts and statues were brought from Italy.4:09
They laid the foundation of the collection.4:13
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