My travels to Moscow

Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to Moscow for the first time at the invitation of a good friend and patron.

I expressed interest in Russian Contemporary painters and to my delight and surprise a visit to The State Tretyakov Gallery which possesses a unique collection of Russian art which includes masterpieces created for more than a thousand years was organised for me.

The Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant and maecenas Pavel Tretyakov. He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892. The State Tretyakov gallery has since become a world-famous museum. Nowadays it contains more than 160 000 works by Russian artists from the early religious paintings to the modern art objects. This gallery and the adjacent sculpture park had a profound affect on me and I have come away inspired and a little humble having seen such great works collected over a lifetime and now available for public viewing.  I will definitely travel to Russia again as there is so much that I would like to see and so much more I would like to learn.