Viewing Repin's 'Barge Haulers on the Volga' | The State Russian Museum (1485)

|The State Russian Museum (1485). The State Russian Museum, also known as the 'Mikhailovsky Palace', is located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1895 and opened to the public in 1898. The museum's collection is mainly composed of the collections of the Mikhailovsky Palace, the suburban palaces of the Tsars, and the practical art works of the Petersburg nobles - Yusupov, Shuvalov and Sheremetev families, preserving many items from the Tsar's family from Peter the Great to Nicholas II. The collection is richest in porcelain and glass art, and the oil painting collection is mainly Russian painters, including Repin's 'Barge Haulers on the Volga', Surikov's 'Suvorov Crossing the Alps', Vasnetsov's 'Warrior at the Crossroads', etc.