Officials from both countries and other distinguished guests, including Russian Ambassador to Korea Georgy Zinoviev and Kim Sun-myung, head of Pushkin House's cultural center in Seoul, gathered for the exhibition's opening, highlighting its significance.
The exhibition features four paintings by renowned artist Jang Seung-eop (1843~1897), lost for over a century, that were recently found in Moscow. These hidden masterpieces were part of gifts presented to Russian Emperor Nicholas II in 1896 by King Gojong, the penultimate monarch of the Joseon Dynasty, to celebrate the emperor's coronation.
The exhibition runs until the end of August at the Appenzeller Noble Memorial Museum, named after missionary Henry Gerhart Appenzeller who opened the first Western-style educational institution in Korea in 1885.