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7 unusual facts about Tretyakov Gallery


All-Russia Exhibition 1896

In the 1960s, they were restored and transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery.

Alypius of the Caves

One of the icons painted by St Alypius survived and is now preserved in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky

One of his pieces, Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a Violet Dress, is in the Collections of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and several others are in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Mikhail Shibanov

Two of his genre scenes are held at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; the above-mentioned portrait is in the Russian Museum now.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The illustration on the cover of the book is a 1913 painting by Liubov Popova titled "Composition with Figures" and belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Tretyakov Gallery

In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.

Tretyakovsky

Tretyakov Gallery (Tretyakovskaya galereya), an art gallery in Moscow, Russia


1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Stalin Prize winner of 1951 in the area of Fine Arts were painter Boris Ioganson, Vasily Sokolov (for painting «Appearance of Lenin on III convention of Komsomol», Tretyakov gallery), sculptor Sergei Merkurov (for monument to Joseph Stalin in Yerevan), Kukryniksy, painter Dmitriy Nalbandyan (for painting «The Great Frendship»), sculptor Vera Mukhina (for sculpture «We demand Peace»).

Aliona Doletskaya

In this role, she has successfully managed several cultural projects, including an exhibition of The Royal Academy «Living Bridges» in the Tretyakov Gallery and in a joint exhibition in the Kremlin and the Tower of London "Treasures of the Tower".

Ivan Varichev

Paintings by Ivan Varichev reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Japan, China, England, in the U,S.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Pierre Soulages

Soulages is the first living artist invited to exhibit at the state Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg and later with the Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow (2001).


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