Speaking about art gallereys of Moscow we must mention the
most famous gallereys.

The State Tretyakov gallery is one of the best known picture
gallereys in Russia. It takes it's name from it's founder Pavel
Tretyakov, a Moscow mercant. In the 19'th century Tretyakov began to collect russian paintings. He visitet all the exibitions and art studios and bought the best pictures. Little by little
Tretyakov extended his interests and began to collect earlier
Russian paintings. In 1881, Tretyakov opened in St. Peterburg to the public, 11 years later he donated it to the city of Moscow.

Since then the gallerey has received hundred paintings from oter museums and private collections. The Tretyakov gallerey reflects the whole history of Russian paintings from 11'th century to the present day.

Also I'd like to tell you about state Pushkin museum of fine
art. The building was built in Greek stile by Roman Klein in 1898
- 1912 to house a museum of fine art, founded of initiative of
professor Ivan Cvetayev. Since 1937 it has be known as The Puskin museum of fine art. It has one of the world’s largest ancient collections of european art. Now the picture gallerey has over 2 thousands works of various schools of painting which enaibous us to understand and appreciate the variaty of staills over the centuries.

The Pushkin museum pereodically hald's exibition of the art of various countries and of individual outstanding artist of past
and present.