Презентация "The Tretyakov Gallery"

The Gallery is situated in Lavrushinsky Lane, Zamoskvorechye district in Moscow.

The Gallery is situated in Lavrushinsky Lane, Zamoskvorechye district in Moscow.
It is a pedestrian zone decorated with trees and flowerbeds. If you intend to come by car, you will need to park it on the Kadashevskaya embankment, or in the nearest alleys.
You can take bus 25 or trolley bus 8 to the stop "Metro station Tretyakovskaya". After that, go along Bolshoy Tolmachevsky lane past the small park and turn right to Lavrushinsky lane. The buildings of the gallery will be on your left.

The Tretyakov family bought a house at the end of 1851.

The Tretyakov family bought a house at the end of 1851.
The first painting was purchased by Pavel Tretyakov in1856. When he died(1898) the building of the Gallery was redesigned by the architect V.Vasnetsov (1902-1904).

The private house was transformed into the great museum which is known all over the world.

This person was an outstanding businessman. But he was also very well educated.
He had a deep knowledge of art, literature, theatre and music.
Tretyakov started to collect art in 1854 at the age of 22; his first purchase was 10 canvases by Old Dutch masters. He laid down for himself the aim of creating a Russian National Gallery. In his collection Tretyakov included the most valuable and remarkable products, first of all the contemporaries, from 1870 - mainly members of the society of circulating art exhibitions.

Sergei's collection was smaller than his brother's, but also very valuable. The first work to be added to his collection was A. Bogolyubov's ”Ipatievsky Monastery near Kostroma”. He later began collecting primarily works from Western European artists, especially French romantics and realists.

The first two paintings of Russian artists:

In 1892 Tretyakov presented his art gallery to the city of Moscow as a gift. At that time the collection consisted of 1,287 paintings, 518 drawings and 9 sculptures by Russian artists and 75 paintings and 8 drawings by European artists.

Masterpieces in the Tretyakov Gallery

In the State Tretyakov Gallery the visitors can see the richest collection of icons of all the major schools of ancient art, including works by Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev.

Famous Paintings

Famous Paintings

Gallery of Modern Art

In 1985, the Tretyakov Gallery became bigger as the collection of contemporary art was housed in a large modern building along the Garden Ring, south of the Crimean Bridge.

The Tretyakov Gallery today - is not only a treasure house of the national cultural heritage, but also a major research center dedicated to storage and restoration, study and promotion of museum pieces.
Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery has now about 150,000 masterpieces.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Tretyakov
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/about/history/tretyakov-family/
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/about/history/zdanie-v-lavrushinskom-pereulke/