The Royal Academy of Arts is staging a landmark exhibition presenting modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the State Pushkin Museum, the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 are displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works includes paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.