Tretyakov
Art Gallery Tour
Guided transfer
for 1-2 pax auto "Volga"
for 3-20 pax - minibus
more then 20 pax - bus
(Except Jan. 01; May 01, 09; Jun.
12; Nov. 07)
(Approx.3 hours)
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the
national treasury of Russian fine
art and one of the greatest
museums in the world. It is
located in one of the oldest
directs of Moscow – Zamoskvorechye,
not far from the Kremlin. The
Gallery's collection consists
entirely of Russian art and
artists who have made à
contribution to the history of
Russian art or been closely
connected with it. This is how it
was conceived by its founder, the
Moscow merchant and industrialist
Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov
(1832-1898) and how it has
remained to this day.
The date of its foundation is
usually taken to be 1856 when the
young Tretyakov first acquired
works by Russian artists of his
day with the aim of creating à
collection, which might later grow
into à museum of national art.
"For me, à true and ardent lover
of painting, there can be no finer
wish than to found à universally
accessible repository of the fine
arts, which will benefit many and
give pleasure to all," wrote the
collector in 1860, adding "I…
should like to leave à national
gallery, that is, à gallery with
pictures by Russian artists".
The years passed and the young
collector's desire was brilliantly
put into practice. In 1892 Moscow,
and with it the whole of Russia
was presented by Tretyakov with à
large and already famous gallery
containing about 2,000 paintings,
drawings and sculptures of
genuine works of Russian art.
Nowadays, the Gallery's Collection
contains more than 130 000 works
of painting, sculpture and
graphics, created throughout the
centuries by successive
generations of Russian artists.
Two separate buildings at
different locations – at
Lavrushinskiy Pereulok, and at
Krymskiy Val, – house the works
selected for display.
Russian art works, ranging in date
from the 11th to the early 20th
century, are on the show in
Gallery's historic building on
Lavrushinskiy Pereulok. Here one
can see the outstanding collection
of Russian Medieval icon painting,
works by best-known Russian
artists of the 18th – first half
of the 19th century, masterpieces
of national art dating to second
half of the 19th century,
collection of art works of the
turn of the 19th century.
Gallery's complex located at
Lavrushinskiy Pereulok
incorporates the Engineering
Building, which regularly hosts
temporary exhibitions, the “Church
of St. Nicholas at Tolmachi”
museum, a masterpiece of 17th –
19th century architecture. The
latter, contains collection of
15th – 19th century icons, and
Russian national palladium – the
12th century icon of “The Virgin
of Vladimir”.
TOUR
HIGHLIGHTS
Russian merchants of the late 19th
century great art connesoieurs and
collectors, outstanding
benefactors and patrons of art.
A vast scope of Russian pictorial
art, from the 12th century icons
to avangard of the beginning of
the 20th century.
The largest pool of Russian
paintings, Boroque portraits,
classical canvases, the first
Russian veduttas (townscapes),
socially conscious Itinerants,
historical paintings and romantic
landscapes, symbolism and
realistic criticism
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