Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) - The Great Museums of the World / Третьяковская Галерея (Москва) - Великие Музеи Мира
Барагамян | 2011 | PDF | ISBN: 5871072356 | 98 pages | 66 Mb
Барагамян | 2011 | PDF | ISBN: 5871072356 | 98 pages | 66 Mb
Book #1 of 100 books from the series "The Great Museums of the World".
The State Tretyakov Gallery possesses a unique collection of Russian art which includes masterpieces which span a period of a thousand years.
The Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant and patron of the arts Pavel Tretyakov. He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892. The State Tretyakov Gallery has since become a world-famous museum. Nowadays it contains more than 170,000 works by Russian artists from early religious paintings to modern art.