Pavel Tretyakov and his famous gallery. Collection of painting. Evstratova E.N.

Today, the name of the Tretyakov Gallery is known throughout the world - after all, here is the richest collection of masterpieces of Russian painting. It is all the more surprising that he acquired these picturesque treasures, sometimes for a lot of money, one person - Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. The result of more than forty -year collecting activities of the Moscow merchant and the philanthropist was the creation of the first public art museum in Russia, which he then transferred as a gift to the city of Moscow. It is no coincidence that Tretyakov’s name is one of the symbols of Russian culture. On the history of the life of Pavel Tretyakov and his family, about the creation of an extensive collection of Russian painting, about relationships, sometimes difficult, with artists and other collectors and, of course, about the main masterpieces of his collection, today constituting the backbone and pride of the famous Tretyakov Gallery, you will learn The pages of this richly illustrated publication.

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