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Art in Moscow
Speaking about art gallereys of Moscow we must mention
the
most famous gallereys.
The State Tretyakov gallery is one of the best known picture
gallereys in Russia. It takes it's name from it's founder
Pavel
Tretyakov, a Moscow mercant. In the 19'th century Tretyakov
began
to collect russian paintings. He visitet all the exibitions
and
art studios and bought the best pictures. Little by little
Tretyakov extended his interests and began to collect earlier
Russian paintings. In 1881 Tretyakov opened in St. Peterburg
to
the public, 11 years later he donated it to the city of
Moscow.
Since then the gallerey has received hundred paintings from
oter
museums and private collections. The Tretyakov gallerey
reflects
the whole history of Russian paintings from 11'th century
to the
present day.
Also I'd like to tell you about state pushkin museum of
fine
art. The building was built in Greek stile by Roman Klein
in 1898
- 1912 to house a museum of fine art, founded of initiative
of
professor Ivan Cvetayev. Since 1937 it has be known as The
Puskin
museum of fine art. It has one of the worlds largest ancient
collections of european art. Now the picture gallerey has
over 2
thousands works of various schools of painting which enaibous
us
to understand and appreciate the variaty of staills over
the
centuries.
The Pushkin museum pereodically hald's exibition of the
art
of various countries and of individual outstanding artist
of past
and present.
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