The Tretyakov Gallery Moscow:

The world-renowned Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is one of the largest art museums in the Soviet Union. Its collections number about 56.000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings illustrating both Russian art and the multinational art of the USSR. This book contains 116 full-colour and 38 black-and-white reproductions of the finest paintings housed in the Gallery. It will acquaint the reader with the evolution of Russian painting from the twelfth century to our day. Among the painters represented are old Russian masters, Rubliov and Dionysius, the eighteenth and nineteenth century artists Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Venetsianov, Briullov, Fedotov, Kramskoi, Repin, Surikov, Serov, Vrubel, and Levitan; the Soviet artists Petrov-Vodkin, Kustodiev, Nesterov, Konchalovsky, Saryan, Ioganson, Pimenov, Korin, Gerasimov, Stozharov, Plastov, Nissky, Chuikov, Salakhov, and others.