The museum contains priceless examples of early Russian icon painting, including Andrei Rublev's “Old Testament Trinity”. The gallery holds the best collection of canvases by members of the 19th century Society of Itinerant Exhibitions, better known by its Russian name of Peredvizhniki (Perov, Kramskoi, Surikov, Makovsky, Savrasov, and Repin), works by painters and graphic artists of the late 19th-early 20th centuries, and by artists of the Soviet period.

The Tretyakov Gallery occupies the mansion that formerly belonged to the Tretyakov family and the adjacent buildings. The artist Victor Vasnetsov decorated its façade in Russian style in 1902.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow boasts Russia’s second largest (after the Hermitage) collection of foreign works of art from Antiquity through the 20th century.

It was opened in 1912 and is housed in a mansion built in the Neo-classic style by the architect Roman Klein. The museum is famous for its one of the world’s richest collections of works by the impressionists (Monet, Pissarro, Renoir), post-impressionists (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne), as well as by Matisse and Picasso.

The Historical Museum in Red Square in Moscow houses a major collection of artifacts and documents of Russian history and culture, from the earliest days of Russian statehood to modern times.

It has a unique collection of Russian coins and medals, a collection of arms, everyday utensils and furniture, old Russian documents, manuscripts and early printed books. Among the exhibits is the apparel of Ivan the Terrible, the camp bed left behind by Napoleon when he fled from Russia, and many other unique historical items.

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