With a painstaking selection of works belonging to a large number of different Collections, RUSSIA! is the largest exhibition of art from the Russian Federation ever shown. This unique exhibition presents Russian masterpieces from the 13th century to the present day, including icons, portraits both in paintings and sculptures, from the 18th to the 20th century, the critical realism of the 19th century and the Socialist Realism of the Communist era, landscapes representing all the different eras, the first abstraction and contemporary experimental art. Exhibition includes works from the most important museums in Russia—the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum and the Kremlin Museum—as well as regional museums, private collections and a number of museums and collections from outside Russia. Before this exhibition, a significant number of these works had been exhibited only on a few occasions or had never been seen outside Russia.