Gifts to the museum: drawings by M. D. Ezuchevsky and a screen made according to the artist’s sketch

The museum's collections have been replenished with new arrivals. Irina Anatolyevna Avsalomova, Associate Professor, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Honored Teacher of Moscow State University, donated a screen in the neo-Gothic style, created according to a sketch by the artist Mikhail Dmitrievich Ezuchevsky in the 1910s, and portraits of Boris Vasilyevich Golikov and Nina Golikova in childhood (1920s), performed by M.D. Ezuchevsky.

Mikhail Dmitrievich Ezuchevsky (1879 - 1928) - Russian painter, graphic artist, illustrator. In 1922, the artist was invited to work at the Darwin Museum, where at that time there was an acute shortage of masters of historical painting and portraiture. Over the years of work at the museum (from 1922 to 1928), Ezuchevsky created a series of paintings on the history of natural science. The main vocation of M. D. Ezuchevsky was genre painting, thanks to which the museum’s collections present a unique series of paintings that depict scenes from the lives of great naturalists and thinkers of various eras. The heroes of his works were Aristotle, R. Bacon, J. Kepler, N. Copernicus, G. Galileo, D. Bruno, F. Bacon, I. Newton, G. W. Leibniz, I. Kant, O. Comte, G. Spencer, E. Mendel, C. Darwin. According to A.F. Kots, M.D. Ezuchevsky “forever left a bright mark on the history of the Darwin Museum.” A few years before the First World War, M.D. Ezuchevsky met Ekaterina Golikova. He lived and worked in her apartment on Arbat until the end of his life. Subsequently, her relatives preserved the archive of the Ezuchevsky family and transferred it to the State Darwin Museum.