On June 24, a postage stamp dedicated to the Museum of Russian Impressionism was put into postal circulation

The Museum of Russian Impressionism is a private museum in Moscow dedicated to Russian Art from the late 19th century to the first third of the 20th century. It has been open to the public since May 28, 2016. It is located in a building on the grounds of the former Bolshevik confectionery factory. The founder of the museum is Boris Mints. Since 2001, he has been collecting Russian paintings and graphics. His collection includes paintings by great artists, such as V. Serov, K. Korovin, B. Kustodiev, P. Konchalovsky, V. Polenov, Yu. Pimenov and others. Some of them are presented in the Museum of Russian Impressionism.

The museum has already organized more than 20 temporary exhibitions with participation of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Musée d'Orsay, the Centre Pompidou, and several dozens of Russian regional museums under federal and municipal jurisdiction. Many exhibitions in the Museum are dedicated to artists forgotten in their homeland: in the spring of 2016, the building opened with the exhibition Arnold Lakhovsky. The Enchanted Wanderer, and in December of the same year, the museum presented the first solo exhibition of Elena Kiselyova in Moscow. In October of 2017, a retrospective of painter Mikhail Shemyakin opened for the first time in 40 years. Paintings by David Burliuk from Russian and foreign museums and private collections were combined in the exhibition David Burliuk. A Word to Me! in the autumn of 2018. The exhibition of artist Nikolai Meshcherin was prepared jointly with the Tretyakov Gallery in February of 2019. In 2020, exhibition Sergey Vinogradov. Painted Life contained pronouncedly light subjects of paintings by the Russian painter and an influential art consultant in Russia of the early 20th century. In 2026, Under the Mask exhibition opened (February 12 – May 24), dedicated to the phenomenon of carnivals and masquerades.

In 2016 and 2022, the museum was longlisted for The Art Newspaper Russia award in the Museum of the Year category.

The postage stamp provides an image of painting Summer (1911) by N. Bogdanov-Belsky from the collection of the Museum of Russian Impressionism.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow.


Design Artist: M. Bodrova.
Face value: 70 rubles.
Stamp size: 30×42 mm, sheet size: 140×110 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (4×2) 6 stamps and 2 coupons.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (10 thousand sheets).

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