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The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Russian: Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ), also known by the acronym MUZHVZ, was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia.
Since 1865, in the wake of affiliation of the the Moscow School of Architecture, the School began to be called the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The leading class of the school was a life model class. It was headed by V.G. Perov, A. Ryabushkin, S. Korovin and many others.
The Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture is located in the centre of Moscow at 21 Myasnitskaya Street, in a house built to the design of the prominent architect Vasily Bazhenov in the 1780—1790s for Lieutenant General Ivan Yushkov.
Main information. Address: 121 Myasnitskaya street, Moscow, 101000. Opening hours: Monday — Saturday: 09:00 — 21:00, Sunday: Closed. Phone: +7 (495) 621-07-02, Fax: +7 (495) 623-06-34.
The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by a 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow in 1832, and the Palace School of Architecture, established in 1749 by Dmitry Ukhtomsky.
Moscow school, major school of late medieval Russian icon and mural painting that flourished in Moscow from about 1400 to the end of the 16th century, succeeding the Novgorod school as the dominant Russian school of painting and eventually developing the stylistic basis for a national art.
In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class.
