Tretyakov Gallery

Among the best places to visit in Moscow, the Tretyakow Gallery is one of them. The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is one of Russia's largest museums, housing over 100,000 works of art spanning the entire history of Russian art, including icons, paintings, graphics, and sculpture. It has the best collection of Russian realism from the second half of the nineteenth century in the country. Pavel Tretyakov, the owner of a successful textile firm, founded the Gallery collection, which became famous from the moment it opened to the public in 1870.

Following Tretyakov's death, the gallery's collection expanded rapidly, particularly after the October Revolution, when museum collections were privatized: art was purchased, donated, or "transferred" from other museums, private collections, cathedrals, and monasteries. The most recent section of the collection, dating from 1950 to 1990, was recently opened.

The Vladimir Mother of God, a Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child from the 1100s, Andrei Rublev's The Trinity icon from the 15th century, and several works by Ilya Repin, Russia's most famous realist painter, are all significant works. There is also an 86-meter-tall statue of Peter the Great on the museum grounds, as well as a number of Socialist Realism sculptures.

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Address: Lavrushinsky Ln, 10, Moscow, Russia, 119017
Phone: +7 499 230-77-88
Website: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/