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The visit to the Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery - the national treasury of fine art stores, masterpieces created by more than a thousand years. The founder of the gallery was a Russian merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, for whom collecting national school became his life, and creating a public museum - its meaning and justification. When in 1892 P. Tretyakov gave his collection as a gift to the city of Moscow, in the collection included 1,287 paintings, 518 drawings and 9 sculptures.
Tretyakov Gallery's collection includes more than 100 thousand pieces and divided into several historical sections: Old Russian art XI-XVII vv. - Icons, sculpture, fine plastic arts, crafts, paintings and graphics XVIII - early XX century, sculpture and a huge section of post-revolutionary painting, sculpture and graphics on the Crimean Val. Most valuable part of the ancient assembly is a collection of pre-Mongolian icons, including the famed Lady of Vladimir. In a number of masterpieces - works of Andrei Rublev, the icon of Dionysius, the creation of anonymous artists. The gallery features works by major Russian artists of XVIII-XX centuries - Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Briullov, Kiprensky, Tropinin Venetsianov, Fedotova, Surikov, Repin, Kramskoy, Savrasov, Shishkin, Vereshchagin, Vasnetsov, Vrubel and many others. Here is the famous "Black Square" by Malevich, which, as many believe, ended the history of Russian painting. Even if you agree with this controversial statement, this story - great and beautiful, what is repeatedly assures the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition.

The topic: "A Walking Tour in the Art Gallery"