Eastern and Central Europe (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

MOSCOW 137

GALLERY GUIDE

There are 62 rooms on two

main floors. Visitors first go

to the basement ticket office,

then head to the first floor.

Paintings are hung in rooms

1–54: visitors come down to

the ground floor after viewing

room 34. Rooms 56–62 contain

ancient Russian art; room 55

features collections of jewellery,

precious stones and icons.

Main Façade

The gallery’s façade was

designed in 1902 by

Viktor Vasnetsov. An

example of the Russian-

Revival style, it has a

frieze inspired by

medieval manuscripts.

Russian

jewellery

Main entrance

KEY

18th and early 19th centuries

Second half of the 19th century

Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Drawings and watercolours of

the 18th–20th centuries

Icons and jewellery

Non-exhibition space

Exit

. The Trinity (1420s)
This beautiful icon was
painted by Andrey Rublev
for the Trinity Monastery
of St Sergius, where he
had been a novice
monk. He dedicated
it to the monastery’s
founder, St Sergius
of Radonezh.

The Morning of

the Execution of

the Streltsy is by

Vasiliy Surikov.

Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–83)

Ilya Repin, a socially committed artist, painted this to

contrast the religious devotion of the peasants with the

cold hypocrisy of the rich.

Ground

floor

29

28

27

43

49

50

51

52

53

54

42

40

55

48

56

57

58

59

60

62

35

37

38

39

36

61

41

VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

Lavrushinskiy Pereulok 10. Map

E4. Tel 951 1362. q Tretya kov-

skaya. @ 6, K, 25. v 1, 4, 8,

33, 62. # 10am–6:30pm Tue–

Sun. & 8 Eng. 9 Eng. 7 0

• = http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru