Lori/Legion Media On May 22 the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, one of the most important museums in Russia, celebrates its 160th birthday. RBTH presents 10 interesting facts from the history of ...

Today it’s hard to believe that these classic works of Russian art could have once stirred up a storm of controversy among their contemporaries. But now they’re among some of the most celebrated and ...

Many say the Tretyakov Gallery features the best collection of Russian fine art in the world. This museum is filled to the brim with masterpieces ranging from the 11th century to the 20th century. The ...

Russian police said on Monday they had arrested a man caught on camera taking a painting off the wall of a major Moscow art gallery and strolling out with it under his arm. Visitors at the State ...

Long–term partners – VTB and the State Tretyakov Gallery - launched an action dedicated to the exhibition "Peredvizhniki" and the opening of the new building of the museum on Kadashevskaya Embankment ...

A man who stole a 20th century Russian painting from Moscow’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum in January has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. A court in Moscow sentenced Denis Chuprikov on ...

Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery has aimed its crosshairs at “illegal” tours and said only certified guides with special badges are allowed to talk about the exhibits. As a result, security guards ...

Police question staff at gallery, which holds world-renowned collection of Russian art, over alleged scheme to transfer masterpieces abroad Police have swept through Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery as part ...

MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. An attack with a metal pole on Ilya Repin’s famous painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son is "an awful and frightening incident suggesting that society is gripped by aggresion, ...

More than 200 Russian curators and art historians, both in the country and in exile, have written an open letter claiming that Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery has “liquidated” its contemporary art ...