Astrakhan State Art Gallery

The Astrakhan State Art Gallery is a museum in Astrakhan, Russia, devoted mainly to painting. Its holdings include works by Russian artists, with landscapes and views of travel among the most visible subjects. Among the paintings listed in its online catalogue are Noon. Neighborhoods of Moscow. Bratsevo by Ivan Shishkin and two works by Vasily Polenov, one of them Baalbek: Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter and the Temple of the Sun. A painting by Fyodor Vasilyev also appears. Little information about the gallery's history or organisation is available, so this entry focuses on the works it presents.