At the quiet street of 10
Lavrushinsky Lane in Moscow you will find The Tratyakov Gallery that contains Moscow’s largest collection of Russian art
with representative pieces from ancient times through various historical
schools up to and including turn-of-the-century Avante Garde works. The newly restored building is worth a visit
in itself.
My first visit was last
Sunday and it is not possible not to be impressed. The Tretyakov Gallery was
founded in 1856 by the wealthy merchant Tretyakov. He presented his private
museum of Russian art to the city in 1892. His brother Sergey also donated a
number of works and the gallery’s collection has been expending ever since.
Today the Tretyakov has the largest collection of Russian art in the world.
My tour in the gallery this
day was guided by Olga, an art professor that would show us some of her favorite
parts of the gallery.
The art we saw this Sunday had a historic touch to it, with
stories behind presented by Olga. To be fortunate to have a person to let is
into the local history at the same time as we see these remarkable paintings,
was interesting and educational.
I am sure I could be sitting and watch some of them for hours
and not get the whole story, discover new things and come back another day and
still discover additional happening in the same painting.
When you also hear that some of the paintings took 20 years to
finish you know that some larger size of painting is hard work and large effort
to do.
Visiting this gallery again and again in the future will be
given a touch of my logistic skills to cover the 5 main areas the gallery covers
of Russian art. It is like when you see a table with so much food that your feel
stuffed before you start eats. This Sunday was just an appetizer and I look
forward to what more I will be up for in the gallery.
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