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The museum was opened by the initiative of the Fine Arts Society in 1899, in a palace that once belonged to Olga Naryshkina, count Pototskyy’s daughter, and was designed in the style of Russian Classicism by Franz Boffo.
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G. Marazli, mayor of the city and famous patron purchased the palace and presented it to the city especially as a museum establishment. One of the first directors of the museum was an artist Kostandi, and his paintings are represented in the exhibition.
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Among ten thousand exhibits are paintings by the great artists Levytskyy, Borovikovskyy, Kiprenskyy, Tropinin, Ayvazovskyy, Serov, Vrubel, Repin, Shishkin, Savrasov, Kuindgi, Roerich, Borisov-Musatov, Kandinskyy… One can admire the powerful, demonic “Valkyrie” by Vrubel in one of the 26 halls of the museum or take a look at what was painted by the great Ukrainian poet – Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko.
