The winners of the audience’s sympathy contest of the exhibition “Family is the soul of Russia”

Aug. 19, 2019

On August 18, 2019, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve completed the exhibition project “The Family is the Soul of Russia”, dedicated to the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, organized by the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives with the participation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of Moscow and the State Museum Exhibition Center “ROSIZO”.

Part of the exposition was the work of professional and non-professional artists, as well as students of art universities, selected by the authoritative jury of the All-Russian contest “Family is the soul of Russia”. This year, more than 3,000 applications from 75 subjects of the Russian Federation were received for the competition, more than half of them are works by very young artists.

Together with the exhibition, the audience’s sympathy contest ended, in which it was possible to take part directly in the exhibition hall. Everyone could vote for their favorite work by putting the card in a special box. The organizers counted the votes; there were 2,230 of them – more than in the previous two years.

The five winning entries with the most votes:

1st place: Lozhkin A.E. Unity – 139 votes

2nd place: Dareev A.A. “Father’s Land” – 128 votes

3rd place: Antokhina-Kuraksa N.A. “Peasant Wedding” – 113 votes

4th place: V.V. Kharchenko “Ducklings are growing” – 103 votes

5th place: Rybakova I.V. “Waiting for a miracle” – 98 points

The basis of the exhibition was paintings from museum collections and private collections: the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Museum of V. A. Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO, the Murom Historical and Art Museum and etc. The exhibition also features Dulevo porcelain from the collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, and icons from the Andrei Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art.