Astrakhan State Picture Gallery. PM Dogadina - the first art museum of the city of Astrakhan, based donor picturesque collection PM Dogadina in 1918. Since 1921, the gallery is housed in a cultural monument late XIX - early XX century. Manor Plotnikov and a three-storey brick building with two-storey outhouses in the yard. Meeting gallery of more than 10, 5 thousand. Units.

This is one of the richest and most interesting art museums in the Volga region, representing the work of almost all major Russian artists, from painters and portrait painters of the XVIII century to contemporary Soviet art. In the department of Russian art XVIII-XIX centuries the works of FS Rokotoff, DG Levitsky, VL Borovikovsky, KP Briullov AG Venetsianov, SF Shchedrin, IK Aivazovsky, AP Bogolyubov, VA Tropinin, VG Perov, NV Nevrev, LI Solomatkin, AK Savrasov, II Shishkin, KE Makovsky, V. Vereshchagin, AI Kuindzhi, VD Polenov.

Painting the late XIX - early XX century is represented by works of IE Repin II Levitan, VA Serov, MV Nesterov, KA Somov, VE Borisov-Musatov, NK Roerich, PP Konchalovsky.

Constantly replenish funds art gallery works of artists-Astrakhan, artists from Central Asia and the Caucasus. A special place in the museum is occupied by works of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan. This 22 paintings and more than 100 graphic works.