Музей русского импрессионизма
Converted candy factory galleries devoted to overlooked masters of Russian Impressionist painting.
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This guide to the Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow centers on Boris Mints, the billionaire investor who opened these galleries in 2016 to rescue a style of painting long overshadowed by Soviet-era social realism. You'll hear how he began collecting overlooked Impressionist works in 2001, and how the museum itself rose from a nineteenth-century candy factory founded by a French confectioner, later renamed Bolshevik under Soviet rule. The guide follows the building's path from flour warehouse to gallery, and the collector whose name still hangs on it.
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