Editing Tretyakov Gallery (section)

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{{Infobox museum
 |name           = State Tretyakov Gallery
 |image          = Moscow 05-2012 TretyakovGallery.jpg
 |caption        = Lavrushinsky Lane
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 |established    = 1856
 |location       = [[Moscow]], Russia
 |type           = [[Art museum]]
 |visitors       = 894,374 (2020)
* Ranked 3rd nationally
* [[List of most-visited art museums|Ranked 13th globally]]
 |director       = {{ill|Elena Pronicheva|ru|Проничева, Елена Владимировна}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20230209/tretyakovka-1850749056.html|title=Глава Третьяковской галереи Трегулова покинула пост|language=ru|publisher= ria.ru|date=2023-02-09}}</ref>
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The '''State Tretyakov Gallery''' ({{langx|ru|Государственная Третьяковская Галерея|Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya}}; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an [[art gallery]] in [[Moscow]], Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian [[fine art]] in the world.

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant [[Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov]] acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a [[Collection (museum)|collection]], which might later grow into a [[museum]] 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]].<ref>Korolev & Iovleva (1992), 13</ref><ref>"[http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/museum/history/gallery/1892_1898/ The donation of the Gallery to Moscow, 1892-1898]". ''The State Tretyakov Gallery'' website. Accessed 24 March 2012.</ref> The museum attracted 894,374 visitors in 2020 (down 68 percent from 2019, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]).  It was 13th on the [[list of most-visited art museums]] in the world in 2020.<ref>The Art Newspaper list of most-visited art museums, March 30, 2021</ref>

The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter [[Viktor Vasnetsov]] in a peculiar Russian [[fairy-tale]] style. It was built in 1902–04 to the south from the [[Moscow Kremlin]]. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century [[church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi]]. The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from the ''[[Theotokos of Vladimir]]'' to the monumental ''[[Composition VII]]'' by [[Wassily Kandinsky]] and the ''[[Black Square (painting)|Black 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 Anand]] and [[Boris Gelfand]] as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/a8b0$wix.htm|title=2012 Anand - Gelfand : World Chess Championship|website=www.mark-weeks.com|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref> In May 2023, the Tretyakov Gallery refused to hand over one of its most famous icons, [[Andrei Rublev]]'s ''[[Trinity (Andrei Rublev)|Trinity]]'', to the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Moscow |date=2023-05-24 |title=Tretyakov Gallery Defies Putin's Orders to Hand Historic Icon to Church |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/24/tretyakov-gallery-defies-putins-orders-to-hand-historic-icon-to-church-a81253 |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Moscow Times |language=en}}</ref> In June 2023 the icon was transferred to Moscow's main cathedral despite the museum's protests on the personal order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-06-04 |title=Russia's most famous icon handed over from museum to church despite protests |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/04/russia-trinity-icon-rublev-moscow-cathedral/4294ede4-02d7-11ee-b74a-5bdd335d4fa2_story.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Administratively, the State Tretyakov Gallery organisation also includes a gallery of contemporary art in another part of central Moscow, and a number of other satellite galleries, including one in [[Kaliningrad]], in the extreme west of Russia, and one in [[Vladivostok]], in the far east.