The exhibition hall “Under the Sycamore” presents a stationary exhibition “Art Gallery of the Vorontsov Palace”, which gives an idea of the main stages of the development of Russian fine art of the late XVIII ‒ early XX century. The twentieth century.  Among the authors are famous Russian artists, graphic artists, sculptors, who at one time studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

More than 70 paintings of various genres and directions are exhibited in the halls. The high level of quality of the Russian portrait of the end of the XVIII century is evidenced by the works of D. Levitsky and V. Borovikovsky. The best portrait painter of the first quarter of the XIX century was V. Tropinin, who captured the image of a man of the Romantic era.  In the middle of the nineteenth century, examples of the portrait genre in the mainstream of realism were created by the traveling artists I. Kramskoy, N. Yaroshenko, at the end of the XIX‒ beginning. The twentieth century.  ‒ V. Serov, A. Murashko, N. Pimonenko, etc.
         Russian landscape painting developed very rapidly and in a variety of ways throughout the 19th century. Along with the species paintings, where the stylistic canons of classicism were observed in the composition and three-dimensional distribution of color, such masters as I. Aivazovsky and A. Bogolyubov painted seascapes in the spirit of romanticism.