А. В. Григорьева) is one of the oldest art galleries in the Volga region, founded in 1919 by Alexander Grigoriev in Kozmodemyansk, Mari El Republic.

[1] In 1918, the artists of Kazan organized the Volga-Kama free mobile exhibition, which was planned to be shown in the cities of the Volga and Kama regions.

Among 40 paintings there were works by Russian Itinerants and contemporary Kazan artists (P. Radimov, G. Medvedev, N. Feshin).

Pictures of Kazan artists and famous Russian painters formed the basis of the art department of the museum.

Since 1998, the museum has been located in the house of the merchant Ponomarev, which is an architectural monument of the 19th century, specially restored for its placement.

November 4, 1920 “in honor of the third anniversary of the October Revolution and in view of the merits in the field of public education and as the founder of the museum, the executive committee of the Kozmodemyansk district council decided to call the Kozmodemyansk museum named after comrade Grigorieva A.

[2] The directors S. Bochkarev, S. Puzyrnikov, I. Plandin, A. Mikheeva made a great contribution to the development and formation of the museum funds in 1919-1963".

The painting of the first half of the 19th century is represented by female portraits of unknown Russian and European artists.

[2] The historical department of the museum consists of 3 thematic rooms; the first one presents expositions on the nature of the region, archeology and ethnography; in the second - a collection of oriental, European and Russian porcelain of the 18th-20th centuries; in the third, expositions are devoted to the past and present of Kozmodemyansk.