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State Tretyakov Gallery
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Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya
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1856 - present
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St. George Miracle of St. George over the Dragon, icon by an anonymous artist of the Novgorod school, egg tempera on panel, beginning of the 15th century; in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, I.A. Ostroukhov Collection.

Tretyakov Gallery

museum, Moscow, Russia
Also known as: Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, State Tretyakov Gallery(Show More)
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Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow art museum founded by Pavel M. Tretyakov in 1856. It contains the world’s finest collection of 17th- and 18th-century Russian icons, having more than 40,000 of them.

(Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.)

“Red Furniture”
“Red Furniture”“Red Furniture,” oil painting by Robert Falk, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group; in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

There are also 18th-century portraits, 19th-century historical paintings, and works of the Soviet period. The museum is organized into Early Russian Art, Art of the 18th Century, Art of the First Half of the 19th Century, Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century, Art of the Early 20th Century, and Soviet Art.

(Read Glenn Lowry’s Britannica essay on "Art Museums and Their Digital Future.")