The Tretyakov GalleryMoscow is replete with art galleries and museums. Yet there is one gallery that remains a symbol of Russian art. It is the world-famous Tretyakov Gallery.The founder of the gallery was the entrepreneur Pavel Tretyakov (1832—1898), who was from the merchant class. Beginning in 1856, Tretyakov had a hobby of collecting works by the Russian artists of his time. He was a famous patron of the arts who helped to support the "peredvizhniki" (a movement consisting of realistic painters in the second half of the 19th century). Toward this goal, he intended to purchase a collection from a St. Petersburg collector, Fyodor Pryanishnikov, and, having added his own collection, created a museum. The government bought Pryanishnikov's gallery in 1867, but Tretyakov gradually acquired an excellent collection, exceeding all other collections in Russia in its volume and quality.In 1892, Pavel Tretyakov donated his entire collection to Moscow. His brother Sergey Tretyakov (1834—1892) was also a collector, but only of Western European paintings.The brothers' collections were at ,the core of the Moscow Municipal Art Gallery, which opened on August 15,1893. At first, it contained 1,287 paintings and 518 pieces of graphic art by Russian artists, as well as 75 paintings by Western European artists.Later, the Western European paintings in the Tretyakov Gallery were transferred to the Hermitage and the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and the Tretyakov Gallery began to specialize exclusively in Russian art.After 1918, the Tretyakov collection grew many times with the inclusion of the collection of Ilya Ostroukhov (1858— 1929), an artist, paintings of the Russian school from the Moscow Rumyantsev Museum, and many private collections. Presently, the gallery is being improved by carefully planned purchases. Already more than 55 thousand works are kept there. There is the rich collection of ancient Russian icon painting of the 12th—17th centuries including Andrei Rublyov's famous "Trinity", as well as significant works of painting and sculpture of the 18th — 19th centuries — paintings by Dmitriy Levitskiy, Fyodor Rokotov, Karl Bryullov, Orest Kiprenskiy, Alexander Ivanov (including his wellknown canvas "The Appearance of Christ Before the People"), Ivan Kramskoy, and sculptures by Fedot Shubin.The gallery has an excellent selection of the best works by the "peredvizhniki": Ilya Repin (including "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"), Victor Vasnetsov, Ivan Shishkin, Vasiliy Surikov ("The Morning of the Strelets Execution"), Vasiliy Vereshchagin and others.The blossoming of many areas of Russian art at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries is also well represented.Suffice it to name such artists of the period as Mikhail Vrubel, Isaak Levitan, Nicholas Rerikh, Alexander Benua, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin, Mstislav Dobuzhinskiy, Konstantin Somov, Valentin Serov, Boris Kustodiev and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. After the relatively short period of the 1910's— 1920's, new movements in art — futurism, cubism, etc. — were quickly developed.Such an artistic movement as socialist realism also produced a number of talented and original artists. This trend is represented by works of Alexander Deineka, Arkadiy Plastov, Yuri Pimenov, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, and others.The main building of the gallery includes the renovated Tretyakov home and several buildings that were attached to it at various times. The main facade of the building was erected in 1902 according to plans by the artist Victor Vasnetsov. In 1994, the Tretyakov Gallery opened after 10 years of restoration. This was not just a facelift to the building; the interior and technical equipment were brought up to the highest standards of quality, which is as it should be, since it contains so many treasures of Russian art.
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Veliky Novgorod (until 1999 the official name — Novgorod) is a city in North-West Russia, the administrative center of Novgorod oblast, City of military glory.
Velikiy Novgorod — one of the oldest and most famous cities of Russia (in 2009 officially said 1150 years). The location of the calling Chronicles, Rurik and origin of the Russian statehood. In the Middle ages — the center of Novgorod Russia and then the Novgorod land centre in the old Russian and Russian States. In 1136 it became the first free-style Republic on the territory of the feudal Russia (from now on, when after the battle at the mountain Ganoi Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev fled from the battlefield, the powers of the Prince of Novgorod was severely limited). For a period of time beginning in 1136 and ending the year 1478, when Novgorod lost (as a result of the victory of Prince of Moscow Ivan III the Great over the people of Novgorod to the Moscow-Novgorod war, 1477-1478) political autonomy, in relation to the Novgorod land, it is customary to apply the term "Novgorod Republic" (government last used the designation of Lord Novgorod the Great).
Novgorod was not subjected to the Mongol invasion; although he paid tribute to the Horde, but retained the unique monuments of old Russian architecture of pre-Mongol period, and was the only one of ancient Russian cities, escaped the decline and fragmentation in the XI—XII centuries.
The population of Veliky Novgorod — 221 954[3] people (2015); 90-e a place in Russia, it's about a third of residents of the area 90.08 km2.
