In a quiet little street in Moscow there is a building which is like many other old Russian houses. It was built at the end of the 19th century and was decorated by the well known painter, Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. It is the Tretyakov Gallery.
More than a hundred years ago in 1856 a young business man Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, the owner of the biggest linen factory in Russia, began collecting pictures by Russian painters.
Soon he decided to organize a museum of national art which must be open to all. He wanted to have in his collection everything, which showed best the development of Russian national art. He bought all the new and interesting paintings from the art galleries. The basis of his collection was founded on the works by Perov, Kramskoi, Shishkin, Surikov, Vasnetsov, Repin and many other artists of that time. Later he bought paintings by Levitan, Serov and Korovin.
In 1892 Tretyakov presented his collection to the City of Moscow. The name of its founder was given to the Gallery. Later the Tretyakov Gallery got a number of other collections devoted to ancient and Russian art of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
The collection is being constantly expanded by the addition of the best works of Russian painters.
There are more than forty thousand works of art, paintings, sculptures and many other examples of decorative art in the Tretyakov Gallery now.
The Tretyakov Gallery collection reflects the history of old Russia, the life, work and ideals of its people, their struggle for freedom and happiness.
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