The Tretyakov Gallery

How to Find the Gallery
The Gallery is situated in
Zamoskvorechye district in Moscow.
It is a pedestrian zone decorated with trees and flowerbeds. If
you intend to come by car, you will need to park it on the
Kadashevskaya embankment, or in the nearest alleys.
You can take bus 25 or trolley bus 8 to the stop "Metro station
Tretyakovskaya".
After
that,
go
along
Bolshoy
Tolmachevsky lane past the small park and turn right
to Lavrushinsky lane. The buildings of the gallery will be on
your left.
Lavrushinsky
Lane,

3.

Building of the Gallery
The Tretyakov family bought a house at the end of 1851.
The first painting was purchased by Pavel Tretyakov in1856.
When he died(1898) the building of the Gallery was
redesigned by the architect V.Vasnetsov (1902-1904).
The private house was transformed into the great
museum which is known all over the world.

4.

Founders of the Collection
This person was an outstanding businessman. But he was also very well
educated.
He had a deep knowledge of art, literature, theatre and music.
Tretyakov started to collect art in 1854 at the age of 22; his first purchase
was 10 canvases by Old Dutch masters. He laid down for himself the aim of
creating a Russian National Gallery. In his collection Tretyakov included the
most valuable and remarkable products, first of all the contemporaries, from
1870 - mainly members of the society of circulating art exhibitions.
Sergei's collection was smaller than his brother's, but also very valuable. The
first work to be added to his collection was A. Bogolyubov's ”Ipatievsky
Monastery near Kostroma”. He later began collecting primarily works from
Western European artists, especially French romantics and realists.

5.

Beginning of the Collection
The first two paintings of Russian artists:
Nikolay Shilder's Temptation and
Vasily Khudyakov’s Skirmish with Finnish smugglers.
In 1892 Tretyakov presented his art gallery to
the city of Moscow as a gift. At that time the
collection consisted of 1,287 paintings, 518
drawings and 9 sculptures by Russian artists
and 75 paintings and 8 drawings by European
artists.

6. Masterpieces in the Tretyakov Gallery

In the State Tretyakov Gallery the visitors can see the richest
collection of icons of all the major schools of ancient art, including
works by Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev.

7. Famous Paintings

"Prince Ivan on the Grey Wolf“
"Alyonushka“
by Victor Vasnetsov

8.

Famous Paintings
Bogatyrs by Victor Vasnetsov

9. Famous Paintings

"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan“ by Ilya Repin

10. Gallery of Modern Art

In 1985, the Tretyakov Gallery became bigger as the collection of contemporary art was housed in a large modern building
along the Garden Ring, south of the Crimean Bridge.

11.

Gallery Now
The Tretyakov Gallery today - is not only a treasure house of the national cultural heritage, but also a major research
center dedicated to storage and restoration, study and promotion of museum pieces.
Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery has now about 150,000 masterpieces.

12. References

1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Tretyakov
2.
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/about/history/tretyakov-family/
3.
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/about/history/zdanie-v-lavrushinskom-pereulke/

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