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Also known as Galería Tret'yakov, Galería estatal de Tretyakov, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Tret'yakov Gallery, Tretyakov State Gallery, State Tretyakov Gallery

art museum in Moscow, Russia

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The Tretyakov Gallery is a major art museum in Moscow, Russia that houses one of the world's most important collections of Russian art. It matters because it preserves and displays centuries of Russian artistic heritage, making it a crucial institution for understanding Russian culture and art history.

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Official website
www.tretyakovgallery.ru
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Moscow 05-2012 TretyakovGallery.jpg
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Tretyakov Gallery
Commons category
State Tretyakov Gallery
inception
1856-01-01
visitors per year
1580819
postal code
238318
Commons gallery
Государственная Третьяковская галерея
native label
Государственная Третьяковская Галерея
street address
Lavrushinsky Ln, 10
social media followers
259000
phone number
+7 (495) 957 07 27
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The State Tretyakov Gallery (Russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, romanized: Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation. The museum attracted 894,374 visitors in 2020 (down 68 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). It was 13th on the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020.

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