The fairy-tale facade on Lavrushinsky Lane, designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in the early 1900s, fronts the world's foremost collection of Russian art. The Tretyakov Gallery (Третьяковская галерея) grew from the private collection of the Moscow merchant Pavel Tretyakov, who began buying works by his contemporaries in 1856 and gave the gallery to the city in 1892.
The collection runs from medieval icons, including Andrei Rublev's Trinity, through the 18th and 19th centuries. The Wanderers and other realist painters are especially strong here: Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Vasily Surikov's Boyarynya Morozova, Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs, Ivan Shishkin's forests and Isaac Levitan's landscapes. Mikhail Vrubel's Demon Seated and Valentin Serov's Girl with Peaches mark the turn of the 20th century. Later Russian art, from the avant-garde onward, is shown at the gallery's separate building on Krymsky Val.
The gallery draws nearly three million visitors a year. Its rooms suit anyone curious about Russian history and painting, and seeing the main halls comfortably takes several hours.
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