Saint Petersburg it one of one most beautiful cities of Russia.There is the river Neva in Saint Petersburg.There are white nights in Saint Petersburg.Saint Petersburg is a remarkable city.Saint Petersburg it is a very beautiful city. This city is an important economic, scientific and cultural center of Russia, large transport knot. Река that flows in city it is Neva. Through water objects very much bridges are laid. A city is located on the north-west of Russian Federation. Also in city many parks and entertaining centers.
The gallery's history starts in 1856 when theMoscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating acollection, which might later grow into amuseum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation. The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimirand Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumentalComposition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and theBlack Square by Kazimir Malevich. In 1977 the Gallery kept a significant part of the George Costakis collection. In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anandand Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.
