Pavel Tretyakov and his famous gallery. A collection of paintings

Today, the name of the Tretyakov Gallery is known all over the world - for it houses the richest collection of masterpieces of Russian painting. It is all the more astonishing that these painting treasures were acquired, sometimes for considerable... sums, by one person - Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. The result of more than forty years of collecting by the Moscow merchant and philanthropist was the creation of the first publicly accessible art museum in Russia, which he later gifted to the city of Moscow. No wonder Tretyakov's name is one of the symbols of Russian culture.
About the life history of Pavel Tretyakov and his family, about the activities of creating an extensive collection of Russian painting, about the sometimes difficult relationships with artists and other collectors, and of course, about the main masterpieces of his collection, which today form the backbone and pride of the famous Tretyakov Gallery, you will learn on the pages of this richly illustrated publication.