Newspaper „Politika“
Newspaper „Politika“
Exhibition “Constellation of Famous Russian Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Photo by Anđelko Vasiljević
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 17:45
J. S. T.
The exhibition “Constellation of Famous Russian Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Collection of Vladimir Peshich” opened yesterday as part of the event “Days of Moscow in Belgrade”, at the exhibition hall of the Belgrade City Museum, located at 30 King Alexander Boulevard. Visitors will have the opportunity to see 36 paintings, eight icons, and two miniatures. The exhibition will be open until November 9, every day from 12:00 to 20:00. Enter is free.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition, which offers a rare opportunity to view works by Russian artists, was attended by Vesna Vidović, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, and Sergey Cheremin, Minister of the Moscow City Government and Head of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow.
Vidović emphasized that Belgrade and Moscow are two brotherly cities, and that the Serbian and Russian peoples have stood by each other whenever times were difficult.
“The exhibition is being held within the framework of the ‘Days of Moscow in Belgrade,’ which symbolically began yesterday, on October 20, the Day of the Liberation of Belgrade in the Second World War—an extremely important date in the history of our capital. This event is a way to further strengthen the friendship between our two peoples, our two cities, as well as our two states. Our nations share a long common history, and we are connected in many ways through culture and art. Russian art has left an indelible mark on Belgrade and has become part of its identity—in architecture, music, and theatre,” Vidović stated, as reported by Beoinfo.
Sergey Cheremin noted that this exhibition is part of Moscow’s cultural outreach. As he pointed out, the foundation of cooperation between our two countries and peoples lies in centuries-old spiritual ties, as well as in strong and inseparable connections in music, painting, and other cultural fields.
The author of the exhibition, Vladimir Pešić, stated that this exhibition represents a rare opportunity to see works by Russian—and especially Moscow-based—artists outside the borders of Russia. This exhibition of paintings and icons is the central event of the “Days of Moscow in Belgrade” and represents a carefully curated selection of works by Russian masters of painting from one of the most prominent collections of Russian art outside Russia, that of Vladimir Pesic.
The central highlights of the exhibition include works by the landscape painter Stanislav Zhukovsky and the “Suprematist Composition” by Ivan Kudryashov, both of which are being presented to the public for the first time. The painting “Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow” by Leonid and Rimma Brailovsky was created in Belgrade in the early 1920s. A special place is also given to the enigmatic portrait of Princess Mafalda of Savoy, granddaughter of King Nikola Petrović-Njegoš, painted by Stepan Kolesnikov.
