The “The First Impression” show in the Research and Cultural Center of the “Mikhailovskoye” State Museum-Preserve of A.S. Pushkin includes 81 paintings and 29 graphic works that are a result of the traditional summer practice of the first-year students of I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Pushkin Museum-Preserve.

This year it is the 57th summer practice. Forty eight future painters and graphic artists have perfected their skills and painted plain-air studies in the museums-estates and in the outskirts of Mikhailovskoe, Petrovskoye and Trigorskoye. Of special interest for them was a new museum of peasant life “Watermill in the Village of Bugrovo”.

In September the works will be on display in the exhibition halls of I. Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.