The exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Museum opens on the eve of the "Night of Museums" and a week before the celebration of the City Day - the 320th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg in the courtyard of the Stroganov Palace. The exposition introduces archival photographic materials from the funds of the State Museum of Fine Arts, which reflect the most important moments in the history of the world's largest collection of Russian art. About 90 well-known and little-known photos will allow viewers to get acquainted with the most vivid and significant pages of the museum chronicle. The exhibition demonstrates materials dedicated to the preparation and opening of the first exposition of the Russian Museum, the reorganization of the museum collection after the October Revolution, including the time of active experiments in the field of museum business and the formation of the appearance of the exposition, which has survived to the present day. A special section will be made up of materials related to the work of the museum during the Great Patriotic War and the blockade, as well as the restoration of the historical interiors of the halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the return of masterpieces of Russian painting and sculpture to the museum halls. The exposition is completed with materials covering the work of the museum at the present stage. This is the process of restoring the interiors of the Mikhailovsky Castle, Marble and Stroganov Palaces, transferred to the Russian Museum at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, the opening of the Summer Garden and the Summer Palace of Peter I to visitors after reconstruction, as well as the implementation of new major exhibition and restoration projects.