THE STATE PUSHKIN MUSEUM

OF FINE ARTS

Prepared be Galya Mursalimova, group NAB-31

The facility was founded by professor Ivan Tsvetaev (father of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva).

1898

Tsvetaev persuaded the millionaire and philanthropist Yuriy Nechaev-Maltsov and the fashionable architect Roman Klein of the urgent need to give Moscow a fine arts museum.

The museum was originally named after Alexander III, but later the museum was finally renamed to honour the memory of Pushkin in 1937, the 100th anniversary of his death.

Grand openingThe Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts opened with grand celebrations on May 31 (June 13), 1912.

Emperor Nicholas II and the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna attended the ceremony.

"Portrait of actress Jeane Samary" 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Fastnacht (Mardi Gras)" Paul Cézanne

"Madonna and a Child" Lucas Cranach the Elder

«The Red Vineyard» Vincent van Gogh

THE STATE TRETYAKOV GALLERY

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection.

The first two paintings by Russian artists: Nikolay Shilder's "Temptation" and Vasily Khudyakov’s "Skirmish with Finnish smugglers".

"Knjazhna Tarakanova" Konstantin Flavitsky

«Morning in a Pine Forest»Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky

“Leo Tolstoy”Ivan Kramskoy

“Portrait of an unknown woman”

Ivan Kramskoy

“The rooks have come back”

Alexei Savrasov

“The girl with peaches”Valentin Serov

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