The event was attended by delegation of the Vietnam-Russia ParliamentaryFriendship Group; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Russian ambassadorto Vietnam Konstantin Vnukov; and Head of the Federal Agency for theCommonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, andInternational Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), EleanoraMitrofanova.
On the display are 50 works on different materials featuring landscapes in Russia by famous Russian painter M.V.Stoyachko.
According to Nguyen Anh Minh, Director of the Vietnam National Arts Museum, the event is a vivid manifestation of the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Russia. This is an occasion for Vietnam's art lovers and painters to meet and share experience with renowned Russian painters.
The three-day exhibition runs through October 12 at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum.
On the same day, under the framework of the series of events, the RussianCentre of Science and Culture in Hanoi organised the cultural programme at theHanoi Opera House by a troupe from the “Gzhel” Moscow National Academic Theatreof Dance.
The theatre was founded in 1988 to commemorate the 650th anniversary of theexistence and development of one of the most well-known and most recognisabletraditional Russian handicraft creations, Gzhel ceramics. The theatre is knownfor having Russia’s most outstanding talented and creative artists.-VNA