Tretyakov Gallery
— — the room that holds Russian painting.
Not only on a wall.
“The Tretyakov sits on Lavrushinsky Lane in Zamoskvorechye, a short walk from the Moskva River and the Kremlin's south wall. Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow textile merchant, began the collection in 1856 and gave it to the city in 1892. The fairy-tale facade was drawn by Viktor Vasnetsov. Inside, Rublev's Trinity, Repin's Ivan the Terrible, Ivanov's Appearance of Christ — the spine of Russian painting in one building.
Tretyakov Gallery, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The State Tretyakov Gallery occupies a complex on Lavrushinsky Lane in Moscow's Zamoskvorechye district, across the river from the Kremlin. The merchant Pavel Tretyakov began collecting Russian painting in 1856 and donated the collection to the City of Moscow in 1892. The red-and-white main building took its current form in 1904, with a facade designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov. The collection now holds more than 180,000 works spanning the eleventh century to the early twentieth, with twentieth-century Russian art housed at the New Tretyakov on Krymsky Val.
The Lavrushinsky building grew up around Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov's own house, which Pavel had opened to visitors since 1867. The Vasnetsov facade — red brick with white stone tracery, a stepped gable, and a relief of St George above the entrance — was added between 1900 and 1904 and pulled the merchant home into a single museum form. The Church of St Nicholas in Tolmachi, attached to the gallery, holds the twelfth-century Theotokos of Vladimir, one of the most venerated icons in Russian Orthodoxy.
The main gallery on Lavrushinsky Lane closes on Mondays and opens 10:00 to 18:00 most other days, with later hours on Thursday through Saturday. The nearest metro station is Tretyakovskaya on the orange and yellow lines. Tickets are timed; book ahead online during Moscow's tourist peaks. The New Tretyakov on Krymsky Val, across the river beside Gorky Park, houses the twentieth-century collection — Malevich's Black Square, Goncharova, Kandinsky, the Soviet realists — and admits separately from the main building.