The Tretyakov Gallery is in Moscow not far from the Kremlin and it is the national treasury of Russian fine art. The Moscow merchant and industrialist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898) founded the museum in 1856 by starting a collection of works of art by artists of his day. He presented his collection to the city in 1892.

The Tretyakov Gallery is in Moscow not far from the Kremlin and it is the national treasury of Russian fine art. The Moscow merchant and industrialist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898) founded the museum in 1856 by starting a collection of works of art by artists of his day. He presented his collection to the city in 1892.