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The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the largest museums in the world. Her popularity is almost legendary. To see its treasures, hundreds of thousands of people come every year to the quiet Lavrushinsky Lane, which is located in one of the oldest districts of Moscow, Zamoskvorechye.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is a national museum of Russian fine art of the 10th - 20th centuries. It is located in Moscow and bears the name of its founder, Moscow merchant and textile manufacturer Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is a treasury of national fine art, storing masterpieces created over more than a thousand years. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the gallery is classified as one of the most valuable cultural objects of our Motherland.
The Tretyakov Gallery's collection is dedicated exclusively to national Russian art, to those artists who contributed to the history of Russian art or who were closely associated with it. This is how the P.M. gallery was conceived. Tretyakov (1832-1898), this is how it has been preserved to this day.
Founded in 1856. Opened to the public in 1893. Several rooms of the private collection of P.M. Tretyakov were first opened to visitors in 1874.
Since 1893 - Moscow City Art Gallery named after Pavel Mikhailovich and Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov, since 1918 - State Tretyakov Gallery, since 1986 - All-Union Museum Association "State Tretyakov Gallery", since 1992 - modern name.
The founder of the gallery was the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, for whom collecting works of the national school became his life’s work, and the creation of a public museum with its meaning and justification. Being a passionate collector, in 1872 he began construction of the first halls of the future gallery, adding them to the house in Lavrushinsky Lane, where he himself lived. Later, in 1902, the facade of the house was reconstructed in the Russian style according to the design of the artist V.M. Vasnetsova. In 1892, Tretyakov fulfilled his dream - he transferred the collection he had collected and the collection of his younger brother S.M. Tretyakov as a gift to Moscow. The grand opening of the gallery took place on May 16, 1893.
Initially, the collection included 1287 paintings, 518 drawings and 9 sculptures.
Currently, the collection includes more than 100 thousand items. They are located not only in the main exhibition on Lavrushinsky Lane, but also in the premises at 10 Krymsky Val, its second part, which is a continuation of the first.
New exhibitions are being prepared for the 17th-century chambers and the 18th-century building on Lavrushinsky Lane, adjacent to the main museum building. A new building has been laid on the corner of Lavrushinsky Lane and Kadashevskaya Embankment. Now the historical core of the gallery is a beautiful ensemble with its remarkable dominant feature - the slender bell tower of the Church of St. Nicholas, the gallery’s home church.
It is located on two territories separated from each other by several city blocks. This makes it possible to present in one museum in the best works the entire history of Russian art from the most ancient period to the work of our contemporary artists. In addition, the Tretyakov Gallery has in its structure memorial art museums: the museum-apartment of Ap.M. Vasnetsov, house-museum of V.M. Vasnetsov, museum-workshop A.S. Golubkina, museum-apartment of P.D. Korina, house-museum of N.S. Goncharova and M.F. Larionova
Total area - 79745 sq.m;
exposition - 20500 sq.m;
stock - 4653 sq. m
Total number of storage units - 100,577
How to get to the museum
- Metro
- By car
- Ground transportation
From Tretyakovskaya station: Turn left after exiting the metro and cross Bolshaya Ordynka Street. Then walk forward along Bolshoi Tolmachevsky Lane or Ordynsky Dead End. After you pass the square, turn right into Lavrushinsky Lane. The gallery buildings will be on your left.
From Novokuznetskaya station: After exiting the metro, go forward to Pyatnitskaya Street and move along it to the left until the pedestrian crossing. Cross the road and follow Klimentovsky Lane to the intersection with Bolshaya Ordynka Street. Cross Bolshaya Ordynka Street, then walk forward along Bolshoy Tolmachevsky Lane or Ordynsky Dead End. After you pass the square, turn right into Lavrushinsky Lane. The gallery buildings will be on your left.
From Polyanka station: After exiting the metro, walk forward to Bolshaya Polyanka Street and turn left. Continue forward and turn right near the bus stop. Exit Bolshoi Tolmachevsky Lane and walk along it to the square. Turn left into Lavrushinsky Lane, the gallery buildings will be on your left.
Lavrushinsky Lane is a pedestrian zone. If you come by car, you need to park it on Kadashevskaya embankment or in the nearest side streets.
You can take bus 25 or trolleybus 8 to the Tretyakovskaya metro station stop. After this, walk along Bolshoi Tolmachevsky Lane past the park and turn right into Lavrushinsky Lane. The gallery buildings will be on your left.
Days of free visits to the museum
Every Wednesday you can visit for free the permanent exhibition “Art of the 20th Century” in the New Tretyakov Gallery, as well as temporary exhibitions “The Gift of Oleg Yakhont” and “Konstantin Istomin. Color in the Window”, taking place in the Engineering Building.
The right to free access to exhibitions in the Main Building on Lavrushinsky Lane, the Engineering Building, the New Tretyakov Gallery, the V.M. House-Museum. Vasnetsov, museum-apartment of A.M. Vasnetsova is provided on the following days for certain categories of citizens first come first serve basis:
First and second Sunday of every month:
for students of higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation, regardless of the form of study (including foreign citizens-students of Russian universities, graduate students, adjuncts, residents, assistant trainees) upon presentation of a student card (does not apply to persons presenting student cards “student-trainee” );
for students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions (from 18 years old) (citizens of Russia and CIS countries). Students holding ISIC cards on the first and second Sunday of each month have the right to free admission to the “Art of the 20th Century” exhibition at the New Tretyakov Gallery.
every Saturday - for members of large families (citizens of Russia and CIS countries).
Please note that conditions for free admission to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for more information.
Attention! At the Gallery's box office, entrance tickets are provided at a nominal value of “free” (upon presentation of the appropriate documents - for the above-mentioned visitors). In this case, all services of the Gallery, including excursion services, are paid in accordance with the established procedure.
Visiting the museum on holidays
On National Unity Day - November 4 - the Tretyakov Gallery is open from 10:00 to 18:00 (entrance until 17:00). Paid entrance.
- Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, Engineering Building and New Tretyakov Gallery - from 10:00 to 18:00 (box office and entrance until 17:00)
- Museum-apartment of A.M. Vasnetsov and the House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsova - closed
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Please note that the conditions for discounted admission to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for more information.
The right to preferential visits The Gallery, except in cases provided for by a separate order of the Gallery management, is provided upon presentation of documents confirming the right to preferential visits to:
- pensioners (citizens of Russia and CIS countries),
- full holders of the Order of Glory,
- students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions (from 18 years old),
- students of higher educational institutions of Russia, as well as foreign students studying at Russian universities (except for intern students),
- members of large families (citizens of Russia and CIS countries).
Free visit right The main and temporary exhibitions of the Gallery, except in cases provided for by a separate order of the Gallery’s management, are provided to the following categories of citizens upon presentation of documents confirming the right of free admission:
- persons under 18 years of age;
- students of faculties specializing in the field of fine arts at secondary specialized and higher educational institutions in Russia, regardless of the form of study (as well as foreign students studying at Russian universities). The clause does not apply to persons presenting student cards of “trainee students” (if there is no information about the faculty on the student card, a certificate from the educational institution must be presented with the obligatory indication of the faculty);
- veterans and disabled people of the Great Patriotic War, combatants, former minor prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos and other places of forced detention created by the Nazis and their allies during the Second World War, illegally repressed and rehabilitated citizens (citizens of Russia and the CIS countries);
- conscripts of the Russian Federation;
- Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Russian Federation, Full Knights of the Order of Glory (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
- disabled people of groups I and II, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
- one accompanying disabled person of group I (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
- one accompanying disabled child (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
- artists, architects, designers - members of the relevant creative Unions of Russia and its constituent entities, art critics - members of the Association of Art Critics of Russia and its constituent entities, members and employees of the Russian Academy of Arts;
- members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM);
- employees of museums of the system of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the relevant Departments of Culture, employees of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and ministries of culture of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
- volunteers of the “Sputnik” program - entrance to the exhibition “Art of the 20th Century” (Krymsky Val, 10) and “Masterpieces of Russian Art of the 11th - early 20th Century” (Lavrushinsky Lane, 10), as well as to the House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsov and the Apartment Museum of A.M. Vasnetsova (citizens of Russia);
- guides-translators who have an accreditation card of the Association of Guides-Translators and Tour Managers of Russia, including those accompanying a group of foreign tourists;
- one teacher of an educational institution and one accompanying a group of students from secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions (with an excursion voucher or subscription); one teacher of an educational institution that has state accreditation of educational activities when conducting an agreed training session and has a special badge (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
- one accompanying a group of students or a group of conscripts (if they have an excursion package, subscription and during a training session) (Russian citizens).
Visitors to the above categories of citizens receive a “Free” entrance ticket.
Please note that the conditions for discounted admission to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for more information.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the largest art museums in Russia and the world, named after its founder, merchant and philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov. P. Tretyakov began collecting paintings in 1850, and 17 years later he opened a gallery, the collection of which included about two thousand works of fine art and several sculptures. In 1893, the collection, previously donated to Moscow, became known as the Moscow City Tretyakov Gallery and was maintained with money bequeathed by the founders.
In 1918, the Tretyakov Gallery was nationalized and became “state property of the RSFRS”; its first directors were the art critic and artist I. Grabar, and then the architect A. Shchusev. Under them, the Museum's holdings grew, several new buildings were added, and new exhibitions were actively developed.
During the Great Patriotic War, all paintings and sculptures were exported to Novosibirsk and Molotov. The evacuation continued for more than a year, but already on May 17, 1945, the exhibitions were again open to residents and guests of Moscow.
In the following decades, the Museum grew continuously, and today it includes the Gallery on Krymsky Val, the Gallery on Lavrushinsky Lane, the house-museum of V. M. Vasnetsov, the Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi and other branches.
The museum's collections include works of art XI-XXI, including Russian painting, sculpture, and graphics. The most famous works stored in the Museum are considered to be icons of the 11th-17th centuries, and especially valuable among them are the face of the Vladimir Mother of God, Rublev’s “Trinity” and icons painted by Dionysius, Theophan the Greek, and Simon Ushakov.
The basis of the Tretyakov Gallery's collections is Russian painting, most of which dates back to the second half of the 19th century. The collection includes works by Kramskoy, Perov, Vasnetsov, Savrasov, Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Repin, Vereshchagin and other famous Russian artists. In the 20th century, the Gallery was replenished with works by Vrubel, Levitan, Serov, Malevich, Roerich, and Benois. During the Soviet period, Deineka, Brodsky, Kukryniksy, Nesterov and others appeared in exhibitions. In addition to painting, the Museum stores and exhibits works by Antokolkolsky, Mukhina, Shadr, Konenkov and other famous sculptors.
Currently, the Tretyakov Gallery is developing new expositions and exhibitions, actively cooperating with many museums around the world and Russia, providing them with collections for temporary exhibitions, also carrying out restoration and research work, replenishing funds, developing cultural and educational programs, participating in major museum, film, and music festivals.
In 1995, the Tretyakov Gallery was recognized as one of the most valuable cultural objects for its activities in the field of preserving art objects and promoting museum values.
Tretyakov Gallery Address: 119017, Moscow, Lavrushinsky Lane, 10
Directions: Metro “Tretyakovskaya” or “Polyanka”
Tretyakov Gallery brief information.
Tretyakov Gallery- a large museum, within the walls of which the most valuable exhibits of art from different centuries and movements are collected. The museum was named after its founder P.M. Tretyakov.
The gallery is located in the reconstructed house of Tretyakov himself and in several adjacent buildings. The main facade was built according to the design of V.M. Vasnetsov in 1902. The popularity of this place can without a doubt be called legendary.
The gallery's collection includes absolutely all areas of Russian painting: from icon painting to modern avant-garde. The gallery's collection is entirely dedicated to national Russian art and artists who made the greatest contribution to history.
Visitors are offered a variety of exhibitions of Old Russian and Russian art, Russian graphics, sculpture, etc. Currently, the gallery's collection includes more than 170,000 works.
In order not to lose sight of any important exhibit, to better understand the meaning of individual works and to learn many interesting facts, it is worth using the services of experienced guides.In addition, this is not just a world-famous museum, the Tretyakov Gallery is a large modern scientific and restoration center.
Address of the Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow, Lavrushinsky lane, 10
How to get to the Tretyakov Gallery
The nearest metro station is Tretyakovskaya. Coming out of the metro, turn right towards Bolshaya Ordynka Street, cross the road at the crossing near the traffic light. Without turning anywhere, walk along the Ordynsky dead end to Lavrushinsky Lane. From the metro to the Tretyakov Gallery it takes 5-7 minutes to walk.
Opening hours of the Tretyakov Gallery
Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday:from 10:00 to 18:00(box officeuntil 17:00)
Thursday Friday Saturday:from 10:00 to 21:00(box officeuntil 20:00)
Monday:day off
Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) - exhibitions, opening hours, address, phone numbers, official website.
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Lavrushinsky Lane in Moscow became famous only because the Russian merchant, millionaire and philanthropist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov built a special building here for his collection of paintings. It formed the basis of one of the largest art collections in the world. The Tretyakov Gallery continues to preserve, explore and popularize Russian art, thereby shaping our cultural identity.
A little history
Tretyakov acquired the first paintings of the future collection in 1856. A decade later, the gallery opened to the public, and in 1892 the owner donated it to Moscow along with the building. In the first years of the 20th century, the facade was rebuilt according to Vasnetsov’s sketch.
The Tretyakov Gallery employees have always been zealous about their duties. After the maniac cut Repin’s painting with a knife, the gallery keeper considered himself guilty of this incident and threw himself under the train.
After the revolution, the collection was nationalized, the building was completed and rebuilt many times, and the premises of the closed Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi were added to it. During the war, the paintings and statues were evacuated to Siberia, in 1985 they were merged with the State Art Gallery on Krymsky Val, the main exhibition was moved there, and the main building was restored for 11 years. A new building is currently being built for the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment.
What to see
The historic building on Lavrushinsky Lane displays more than 1,300 works by Russian artists from the 11th to the early 20th centuries. The hall of ancient Russian painting is decorated with Rublev’s “Trinity”, standing in a glass cabinet where a special microclimate is maintained. Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People” is displayed in a separate room. On the walls there are many works by I. E. Repin, V. I. Surikov, V. A. Serov, V. V. Vereshchagin.
The Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi combines a functioning temple and an exhibition hall. Its decoration, iconostasis and utensils are part of the museum collection. The pearl of the exhibition is the 12th century icon “Our Lady of Vladimir”, a Russian shrine and a world-class work of art.
The New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val displays paintings by Russian artists of the 20th century. The exhibition includes all artistic movements from the revolutionary avant-garde to the modern underground, a widest retrospective of works in the style of socialist realism. Exhibitions of recognized artists and young talents are also organized here. There is a lecture hall and a Creative Workshop, where children and adults get acquainted with the art of the last century and discover their abilities in drawing and sculpting.
Increasingly, visitors to the New Tretyakov Gallery ask: “Where is Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square?” The artistic manifesto of Suprematism is in the 6th room next to paintings by Marc Chagall and Wassily Kandinsky. The guides will tell you about its complex symbolism and deep meaning. An interesting fact is that there is not a single stroke of black paint in the picture; its color is formed by mixing different colors. X-ray scanning revealed two more images and the words “Battle of the Negroes at Night” under the top layer.
About the Tretyakov Gallery
Practical information
Address of the historical building of the Tretyakov Gallery: Lavrushinsky lane, 10 (Tretyakovskaya metro station).
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday - from 10:00 to 18:00, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - from 10:00 to 21:00. Monday is a day off. The ticket office closes an hour earlier.
Address of the New Tretyakov Gallery: Krymsky Val, 10 (Park Kultury metro station).
Opening hours: Tuesday and Wednesday - from 10:00 to 18:00, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - from 10:00 to 21:00. Monday is a day off.
Ticket price for adults is 500 RUB, for pensioners, students, students - 250 RUB. Admission for visitors under 18 years of age is free. Audio guide rental - 350 RUB. Prices on the page are as of November 2018.
