State Tretyakov gallery

State Tretyakov gallery

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• The state Tretyakov gallery is a Moscow art Museum founded in 1856 by merchant Pavel Tretyakov. In 1867 the gallery was opened to the public, and in 1892 it was transferred to the ownership of Moscow. At the time of transfer, the Museum's collection consisted of 1,276 paintings, 471 drawings, ten sculptures by Russian artists, as well as 84 paintings by foreign masters.

• After the revolution of 1917, the gallery was nationalized, and the collection was replenished from confiscated private collections and museums. In 1985, The state art gallery on Krymsky Val was merged with the Tretyakov gallery and formed a single Museum complex New Tretyakov gallery together with the Central house of the artist. The building in Lavrushinsky lane housed a collection of paintings from ancient times to the 1910s, and in the Department on Krymsky Val-the art of the XX century.

• As of 2018, the exhibition has more than 180,000 items and includes paintings, sculptures and articles of precious metals created from the XI to XX century. The Museum is located in a building built in 1906 — an object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of Federal importance and is protected by the state.

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