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The museum has released a complete catalog of the collection of the founders of the Tretyakov Gallery for its anniversary, TASS reports. It is the first time when the entire collection assembled by the brothers Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov have been listed in one catalogue. The two-volume edition includes about 3,500 works, including paintings, sculptures, icons from the collections of the Pushkin Museum, the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and others.
According to the director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, this book has become a big dream come true. She noted that there are not many publications dedicated to the Tretyakov brothers.
The book was published under the ''The Tretyakov Brothers. Collections" title. The catalogue also includes those works that are now kept in the funds of Russian and foreign museums.
Until 1917, the collection in the museum was presented as a whole; after the revolution, the it was distributed to different museums. In particular, the collection of European painting is now divided between the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.
The cover of the first volume contains the masterpieces of the Tretyakov collection, almost 500 paintings in total. They are supplemented by a story about the activities of the Tretyakov brothers, who were successful entrepreneurs.
The second volume presents the whole collection and the scope of the Tretyakovs' collecting activity.
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