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The Tretyakov Gallery — Третьяковская галерея

Moscow is replete with art galleries and museums. Yet there is one gallery that remains a symbol of Russian art. It is the world-famous Tretyakov Gallery.
The founder of the gallery was the entrepreneur Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898), who was from the merchant class. Beginning in 1856, Tretyakov had a hobby of collecting works by the Russian artists of his time. He was a famous patron of the arts who helped to support the «peredvizhniki» (a movement consisting of realistic painters in the second half of the 19th century). Toward this goal, he intended to purchase a collection from a St. Petersburg collector, Fyodor Pryanishnikov, and, having added his own collection, created a museum. The government bought Pryanishnikov’s gallery in 1867, but Tretyakov gradually acquired an excellent collection, exceeding all other collections in Russia in its volume and quality.
In 1892, Pavel Tretyakov donated his entire collection to Moscow. His brother Sergey Tretyakov (1834-1892)

was also a collector, but only of Western European paintings.
The brothers’ collections were at, the core of the Moscow Municipal Art Gallery, which opened on August 15,1893. At first, it contained 1,287 paintings and 518 pieces of graphic art by Russian artists, as well as 75 paintings by Western European artists.
Later, the Western European paintings in the Tretyakov Gallery were transferred to the Hermitage and the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and the Tretyakov Gallery began to specialize exclusively in Russian art.
After 1918, the Tretyakov collection grew many times with the inclusion of the collection of Ilya Ostroukhov (1858- 1929), an artist, paintings of the Russian school from the Moscow Rumyantsev Museum, and many private collections. Presently, the gallery is being improved by carefully planned purchases. Already more than 55 thousand works are kept there. There is the rich collection of ancient Russian icon painting of the 12th-17th centuries including Andrei Rublyov’s famous «Trinity», as well as significant works of painting and sculpture of the 18th —
19th centuries — paintings by Dmitriy Levitskiy, Fyodor Rokotov, Karl Bryullov, Orest Kiprenskiy, Alexander Ivanov (including his wellknown canvas «The Appearance of Christ Before the People»), Ivan Kramskoy, and sculptures by Fedot Shubin.
The gallery has an excellent selection of the best works by the «peredvizhniki»: Ilya Repin (including «Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan»), Victor Vasnetsov, Ivan Shishkin, Vasiliy Surikov («The Morning of the Strelets Execution»), Vasiliy Vereshchagin and others.
The blossoming of many areas of Russian art at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries is also well represented.
Suffice it to name such artists of the period as Mikhail Vrubel, Isaak Levitan, Nicholas Rerikh, Alexander Benua, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin, Mstislav Dobuzhinskiy, Konstantin Somov, Valentin Serov, Boris Kustodiev and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. After the relatively short period of the 1910’s — 1920’s, new movements in art — futurism, cubism, etc. — were quickly developed.
Such an artistic movement as socialist realism also produced a number of talented and original artists. This trend is represented by works of Alexander Deineka, Arkadiy Plastov, Yuri Pimenov, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, and others.
The main building of the gallery includes the renovated Tretyakov home and several buildings that were attached to it at various times. The main facade of the building was erected in 1902 according to plans by the artist Victor Vasnetsov. In 1994, the Tretyakov Gallery opened after 10 years of restoration. This was not just a facelift to the building; the interior and technical equipment were brought up to the highest standards of quality, which is as it should be, since it contains so many treasures of Russian art.

Третьяковская галерея

В Москве много художественных галерей и музеев. И все же есть одна галерея, которая остается символом русского искусства. Это всемирно известная Третьяковская галерея.
Основателем галереи был предприниматель Павел Третьяков (1832-1898), который принадлежал к купеческому сословию. Начиная с 1856 г. у Третьякова появилось увлечение — коллекционирование произведений русских художников того времени. Он был известным покровителем искусств, поддерживал передвижников (объединение, в которое входили художники-реалисты второй половины XIX века). С этой же целью он намеревался купить коллекцию петербургского коллекционера Федора Прянишникова и вместе со своим собранием картин создать музей. Галерея Прянишникова в 1867 г. была куплена государством, но Третьяков постепенно приобрел отличную коллекцию, превосходящую по объему и ценности другие коллекции в России.
В 1892 г. Павел Третьяков передал в дар Москве всю свою коллекцию. Его брат Сергей Третьяков был также коллекционером, но только западноевропейской живописи.
Коллекции братьев были ядром Московской муниципальной художественной галереи, которая открылась 15 августа 1893 г. Вначале она содержала 1 287 картин и 518 произведений графического искусства русских художников, а также 75 картин западноевропейских художников.
Позже западноевропейские картины Третьяковской галереи были перевезены в Эрмитаж и Музей изобразительных искусств им. А. С. Пушкина. А Третьяковская галерея стала специализироваться исключительно на русском искусстве.
После 1918 г. коллекция Третьякова увеличилась во много раз, включив коллекцию художника Ильи Остроухова, картины художников русской школы из московского Румянцевского музея и многие частные коллекции. В настоящее время галерея пополняется приобретениями, покупка которых тщательно планируется, В ней хранится уже более 55 тысяч произведений. Здесь имеется богатая коллекция древнерусской иконописи XII-XVII вв., включая знаменитую «Троицу» Андрея Рублева, а также выдающиеся произведения искусства и скульптуры XVIII — XIX вв. — картины Дмитрия Левицкого, Федора Рокотова, Карла Брюллова, Ореста Кипренского, Александра Иванова (включая его известное полотно «Явление Христа народу»), Ивана Крамского и скульптуры Федота Шубина.
Галерея содержит прекрасную коллекцию лучших работ передвижников: Ильи Репина (включая картину «Иван Грозный и сын его Иван»), Виктора Васнецова, Ивана Шишкина, Василия Сурикова («Утро стрелецкой казни»), Василия Верещагина и других.
Лучшие образцы различных видов русского искусства конца XIX — начала XX вв. также хорошо представлены.
Достаточно назвать имена таких художников как Михаил Врубель, Исаак Левитан, Николай Рерих, Александр Бенуа, Михаил Нестеров, Константин Коровин, Мстислав Добужинский, Константин Сомов, Валентин Серов, Борис Кустодиев и Кузьма Петров-Водкин. После сравнительно небольшого периода с 1910 по 1920 годы быстро развивались новые направления в искусстве — футуризм, кубизм и т. д.
Такое направление как социалистический реализм также породило много талантливых и оригинальных художников. Это течение представлено работами Александра Дейнеки, Аркадия Пластова, Юрия Пименова, Дмитрия Налбандяна и других.
Главное здание галереи включает обновленный дом Третьякова и несколько зданий, которые были пристроены к нему в разное время. Главный фасад здания был воздвигнут в 1902 г. согласно планам художника Виктора Васнецова. В 1994 г. Третьяковская галерея открылась после 10-летней реставрации. Это был не только косметический ремонт здания, качество интерьера и технического оборудования доведено до высочайшего уровня мировых стандартов, что само собой разумеется, т. к. в здании хранятся бесценные сокровища русского искусства.

Questions:

1. What gallery in Moscow is a symbol of Russian art?
2. Who was the founder of the gallery?
3. What did he make his hobby?
4. Whom did he support?
5. What did P. Tretyakov intend to do?
6. Who bought Pryanishnikov’s gallery in 1867?
7. What did P. Tretyakov do with his collection in 1892?
8. His brother Sergey Tretyakov was a collector of Western European paintings, wasn’t he?
9. When was the Moscow Municipal Art Gallery opened?
10. What did it contain at first?
11. Where were the Western European paintings transferred?
12. The Tretyakov collection grew many times after 1918, didn’t it?
13. How is the gallery being improved now?
14. How many works are kept there now?
15. What collections are extremely rich and beautiful in the gallery?
16. Are new art movements of the 1910’s-1920’s represented in the gallery?
17. When was the main facade of the gallery erected? According to whose plans was it erected?
18. When was the Tretyakov Gallery opened after 10 years of restoration? What does its interior look like after the restoration?

Vocabulary:

Replete — наполненный
entrepreneur — предприниматель
patron — покровитель
to intend — намереваться
to purchase — покупать
to acquire — приобретать
to exceed — превышать, превосходить
volume — объем, количество
to donate — передавать в дар
entire — полный, целый, весь
exclusively — исключительно, только
inclusion — включение, присоединение
suffice it to name — достаточно назвать
futurism — футуризм
cubism — кубизм
facade — фасад
facelift — внешнее обновление, косметический ремонт (здания)

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