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HISTORY OF NEVZOROVS’ COLLECTION

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after Nevzorovs was opened in the city of Semey in 1985. Currently, the museum is one of Kazakhstan’s largest, containing more than 5000 works of art.

The museum’s core collection is a gift from the Nevzorov family. In 1988, the Moscow collector Yuliy Vladimirovich Nevzorov, with the consent of his wife, Antonina Mikhailovna and her daughter Julia Yulyevna Nevzorovs, donated more than 500 works of Russian, Soviet and foreign art to the city of Semey.

In 1991, the museum was given the family name of Nevzorov, with museum funding replenished regularly. The museum has amassed with an impressive collection of the art of Kazakhstan. The current exhibition halls consist of the following:

— Russian art of the late 18th — early 19th centuries

— The Art of Kazakhstan

— Western European paintings and drawings the late 17th — early 20th centuries

— Russian art of the 20th century.

Of interest both to professionals and to art enthusiasts, the Museum presents a variety of thematic tours of the exhibition halls, a series of lectures on the world of art, individual training courses for primary and secondary school students, as well as classes in family groups. Tours are available in Kazakh, Russian and English.

The museum exhibition periodically holds public events, including the memorable annual event is the «Night at the Museum”, which attracting hundreds of visitors. No less significant, bright and colorful, is the annual festival “Crafts of the Kazakhstan.» Dozens of artists from around the region descend on Semey to display their works, with some artists holding master classes.

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HISTORY OF NEVZOROV FAMILY

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P. Nevzorov

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=»3/4″][vc_column_text]Piotr Ivanovitch Nevzorov. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts as a lecturegoer in 1848 and graduated in 1852. In 1858 he was given an honorary degree from the Academy. His works are kept now in the Tretiakov Gallery and in other museums of Russia.

Anna Gavrilovna Nevzorova, nee Popova. She was P. Nevzorov’s sister-in-law, the mother of Vladimir Nevzorov and the grandmother of Yuly Nevzorov. Of her own free will, Anna Nevzorova followed on foot the group of deported convicts with her husband who had been sent into exile in Siberia in Alemka and later in Vitim of Irkutsk Guberniya for revolutionary activities. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=»1/4″][vc_single_image image=»1889″ img_size=»full» alignment=»center» css=».vc_custom_1489478924582{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}»][vc_column_text]

Y. Nevzorov

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=»3/4″][vc_column_text]Vladimir Ignatievitch Nevzorov, nephewof P. Nevzorov, father of Y. Nevzorov. He was the son of a political exile deportee. He was born and raised in Vitim in Bodajbo. V. Nevzrov lived in Irkutsk in 1910, and in 1924 was transferred from Irkutsk to Moscow and appointed as a chief of planning in the people’s commissariat of inland trade.

Yuly Vladimirovitch Nevzorov was born in 1913 in Irkutsk. He has lived in Moscow since 1924. Y. Nevzorov finished the Moscow Institute of Building Engineering.

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Nevzorov family

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=»3/4″][vc_column_text]Antonina Mikhailovna Nevzorova was born in Kazakhstan in Koktchetav oblast, Aryk Balyk region, village Privolnoye. Her great-grandfather Perekalsky was sent into exile in Siberia in 1863 for participation in the Polish rebellion. A. Nevzorova is a lawyer. She worked as a chief of culture’s directory of Irkutsk area.

Yulia Yulievna Nevzorova was born in1969, graduated the Moscow State University. She is an art historian.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]