Grigoriev Art and History Museum. The A.V.
Grigoriev Art and History Museum is one of the oldest art galleries in the Volga region, founded in 1919 by Alexander Grigoriev in Kozmodemyansk, Mari El Republic. Branch of the municipal institution Kozmodemyansky cultural and historical museum complex.
In 2020, the museum was ranked among the 10 best regional museum of Russian Art. In 1918, the artists of Kazan organized the Volga-Kama free mobile exhibition, which was planned to be shown in the cities of the Volga and Kama regions.
Among 40 paintings there were works by Russian Itinerants and contemporary Kazan artists. Researchers believe that the exhibition was based on paintings from the collection of Alexander Mantel.
When the paintings arrived in Kozmodemyansk, a civil war broke out in the country. The White Guards entered Kazan. The paintings remained for preservation in the department of public education of Kozmodemyansk. In the fall of 1919, one of the first professional Mari artists, Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev, arrived in Kozmodemyansk. Seeing the paintings of the Volga-Kama exhibition, A. Grigoriev decided to organize a museum in the city. Pictures of Kazan artists and famous Russian painters formed the basis of the art department of the museum. The museum was established on September 7, 1919. Initially, the museum was located in the house of the merchant Torsuev, since 1933-in the building of the S