Konstantin Vasilyev Museum, Art museum in Lianozovo District, Moscow, Russia.
The Konstantin Vasilyev Museum occupies the 1903 mansion that industrialist Stepan Lianozov built for his beloved in Moscow's Lianozovo District. The two-storey building with a brown tiled roof stands behind a black metal fence, marked by a blue sign reading "МУЗЕЙ К.ВАСИЛЬЕВА" and "УЛ. ЧЕРЕПОВЕЦКАЯ, 24". Five halls hold about four hundred works, two of them Vasilyev's own paintings.
The artist died in 1976, and his friends later organized exhibitions of his paintings across Europe, which eventually led to the museum's opening in 1998. The estate was originally owned by industrialist Stepan Lianozov, whose name the district bears.
The collection shows how Slavic mythology and folk traditions were expressed through paintings, mosaics, and birch bark objects that remain relevant to understanding Russian heritage today. Visitors can see how the artist incorporated traditional motifs throughout his work.
The museum occupies the 1903 Lianozov mansion at Cherepovetskaya Street 24 in Lianozovo, northern Moscow; the entrance is marked by a blue sign on a concrete pillar behind a black metal fence. The five halls hold around four hundred works, two of them devoted to Vasilyev. The building was rebuilt after a 2009 fire and reopened in 2012.
The 1903 mansion was slated for demolition by the early 1990s, its partitions lost and wooden floors rotted; Anatoly Doronin's club saved it and restored it entirely with private donations by 1998. In 2009 a fire destroyed the third floor and part of the roof, and a three-year repair preceded the 2012 reopening.
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