Art Galleries

The Tretyakov picture gallery

The Tretyakov Picture Gallery collection totals over 100, 000 pieces and is subdivided into a number of historical sections: the art of Ancient Russia of the XI-XVII century - icons, sculptures, small casts, applied art; paintings and graphics of the XVIII - early XX centuries; sculptures and a vast section of post-Revolution paintings, sculptures and graphic art pieces are situated on Crymsky Val. The collection of pre-Mongolian Orthodox icons including the glorified Virgin of Vladimir is the most valuable part of the Ancient Russian collection. Among the masterpieces are creations by Andrey Rublev, the icons by Dionisiy, the creations by unknown masters. The gallery exhibits the paintings by the most famous Russian artists of the XVIII-XX centuries - Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Kiprensky, Brullov, Tropinin, Venetsianov, Fedotov, Surikov, Repin, Kramskoy, Savrasov, Shishkin, Vereschagin, Vasnetsov, Vrubel and many others. Here you will find the notorious "Black Square" by Malevitch which, as many believe, is the end of Russian painting history. Even if you are inclined to agree with this disputable statement, the exposition of the Тretyakov Gallery will never fail to convince you that this history is great and beautiful.

You are invited daily except Monday 10:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m. The tour lasts about 1,5 hours.

Moscow Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the second-largest, after the St.-Petersburg Hermitage, collection of foreign arts in Russia. The people enlighteners, Moscow professors, wanted everyone in the city to be able to see the great creations of the previous centuries' masters, at least in replicas and casts. High quality copies were specially made in Europe for big sums of money, and then transported to Moscow. Simultaneously the vast building of the future Museum was being erected – a palace with a colonnade whose magnificent halls were capable to house bulky exhibits - frieze fragments, gates, horse statues, the originals of which decorated the cities and museums of Europe. From a storage place for replicas and copies the Palace in Volkhonka Street quickly developed into a museum of originals. The Egyptologist V.S. Golenischev’s collection which gathered monuments of Ancient Egypt, antique vases and coins and Western Europe masters’ paintings made part and parcel of the museum.

You are invited daily except Monday 10:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m. The tour lasts about 1,5 hours.