* I invite you to visit the world's largest museum of Russian art. Together we will look at the most famous paintings of Russian painters. The magnificent Mikhailovsky Palace is a treasure trove containing both ancient Russian icons and masterpieces of sculpture and painting of the XVIII-XIX centuries. I suggest you look at them with me, looking for details that are invisible at first glance. We will walk through the halls of the majestic Mikhailovsky Palace, and I will tell you how the imperial residence turned into a museum, and how attitudes towards art changed in pre-revolutionary Russia. Paintings by Repin, Vasnetsov, Aivazovsky and other Russian masters perfectly complement the elegant palace interiors, so our tour will be full of impressions and emotions from contact with the works of art.