Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях
Третьяковская галерея
Москва
1898
Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
The Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow
1898
Music:
Impromptu Op.14 No.1 by Alexandr Scriabin, played here by Alexey Chernov
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the foremost gallery of Russian fine art in the world. The collection was begun in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation.
The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902–04.
Today, the gallery extends to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi. There are in excess of 130,000 exhibits and includes the collection of George Costakis, the Russian born Greek collector of Modern Russian avant-garde art.
This is a wonderful gallery and always spend a day here when in Moscow....
