About the book: 2011 / The State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin is one of the largest museums of world art in Russia. Created by I. V. Tsvetaev at Moscow University, the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III was opened in 1912. The museum building, erected by architect R. I. Klein in the neoclassical style, is today an architectural monument of federal significance. Nowadays, the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is one of the richest in the world. Here you can see monuments of Ancient Egypt and Antiquity, works by Botticelli, Perugino, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and many other artists. As of the beginning of 2011, the Museum has more than 670 thousand storage units. Annual attendance is about 1 million people. The main building displays casts and the museum's worthy collection; especially good and famous are Egyptian figurines, Fayum portraits, Western European painting, the Impressionists, the Flemish Dutch and, of course, the great Rembrandt himself.