Description of the attraction
At the end of the 20s of the last century, the cultural education of the nation began to gain momentum again. Museums, exhibitions, galleries were opened. Anyone could admire the beauty of painting, touch the beauty, see the historical flow of time through the prism of sculpture, graphics, paintings, etc.
In 1927 an art gallery was opened in Sevastopol. Its exhibits are collected from museums in Yalta, Petrograd and Moscow. Initially, the cultural heritage consisted of about 500 exhibits. The museum gradually grew, replenished with the works of the hands of the great creators of past centuries and the present. Exhibits from private collections of art connoisseurs were exhibited. And by 1941 the number of works had increased to 2,500.
With the start of the exhausting Patriotic War, cultural values, like everything on this earth, were in danger of being exported abroad or simply mercilessly destroyed. A museum worker, a native of Sevastopol, a patriot of his land and business, and later not indifferent to the spiritual values of creativity, the director of the art gallery Kroshitsky, sensing something was wrong, organized the evacuation of the exhibits from the city besieged by the enemy. He independently transported the priceless cargo to Siberia, away from enemies. Under his wing, M. P. Kroshitsky brought together several thousand works.
Under the onslaught of the war, many cultural buildings were burned down, incl. military history museum of the Black Sea Fleet. Kroshitsky managed to save part of the expositions of this museum. Throughout the hostilities, he kept his brainchild. And only when the explosions of bombs and the noise of artillery shells subsided, did he return the Sevastopol collection to the Crimea. First, the exhibits settled in an art gallery in Simferopol. The gallery returned to its native land only in 1956.
In 1965, the gallery, unique in its collections, received the status of the Sevastopol Art Museum. For the great contribution to the development of art, its preservation and constant growth, the museum in 1991 was named after Mikhail Pavlovich Kroshitsky.
In the second half of the 20th century, the museum replenished its stocks up to 8000. Sevastopol residents proudly call the museum the "Crimean Tretyakov Gallery". Here are collected paintings by Aivazovsky, Bogaevsky, Vasnetsov, Volkov, Brodsky, Tropinin, Shishkin, Repin and many more famous painters.
