About the book: 2011 / The State Tretyakov Gallery (TtG) is an art museum in Moscow, founded in 1856 by the merchant Pavel Tretyakov and having one of the world's largest collections of Russian fine arts. The exhibition in the main building “Russian painting of the 11th – early 20th centuries” (Lavrushinsky Lane, 10) is part of the All-Russian museum association “State Tretyakov Gallery”, formed in 1986. The date of creation of the Tretyakov Gallery is traditionally considered to be 1856, when the Moscow merchant and industrialist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832–1898) acquired the first works of modern Russian artists. His initial goal was to create an art gallery, which could later transform into a museum of Russian national art. “For me, who truly and ardently loves painting, there can be no better desire than to lay the foundation for a public, accessible repository of fine arts that will bring benefit to many and pleasure to all,” Tretyakov wrote in 1860, adding, “I would like to leave the national gallery, that is, consisting of paintings by Russian artists»…