Institute of Russian Realist Art

• Name — The Institute of Russian Realist Art • Location — Moscow, Russia • Type — Art museum • Collections — Soviet art • Director — Nadezhda Stepanova • Former Name — IRRA museum • Owner — Alexey Ananiev

• Illustration — Vasily Polenov, The apostle Matthew, c. 1910 The halls of the first floor familiarise with present-day life in Russia, including works by such members of the Moscow school of painting as Viktor Kalinin, Alexei Sukhovetsky, Vladimir Telin, Nikolai Zaitsev, Vyacheslav Stekolschikov, Nikolai Solomin; the works of Leningrad painters Andrei Mylnikov, Yevsei Moiseenko, Boris Ugarov, Vyacheslav Zagonek; the artists from Vladimir, including Kim Britov, Vladimir Yukin and Mikhail Izotov.

The second floor of the Institute of Russian Realist Art displays the Soviet art collection of the second half of the 20th century. At its centre are works by the painters of the 1960s including "National Artists", and full members of the Russian Academy of Arts Gely Korzhev, the brothers Sergei and Alexei Tkachev, Viktor Ivanov, Petr Ossovsky, Dmitry Zhilinsky and Tair Salakhov.

The halls of the third floor display important sections of the museum collection, Soviet art from the first half of the 20th century, including works by figures such as Arkady Plastov, Sergey Gerasimov, Alexander Deineka, Yury Pimenov, Georgy Nissky, Isaak Brodsky and other painters.