3. Are the following statements true or false? 1. In 1863 fourteen painters- students of the Academy of Arts- refused to paint pictures on religious themes. 2. In 1870 they joined the artists from Moscow to form “The Travelling Exhibition Society”.
3. Ilya Repin was the leader of this group
. 4. Ivan Kramskoy was a talented landscape painter.
5. Alexei Savrasov was a famous portrait painter
6. Valentin Serov was famous for his splendid gala portraits.
7. Victor Vasnetsov painted “The Warriors” specially for the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
4. Do you remember? 1. Who was the founder of the first gallery of Russian paintings in Moscow? 2. What is the date of its foundation? 3. How many paintings were there in the collection of Pavel Tretyakov by the 1870s? 4. When was the Tretyakov collection opened for the public? 5. Who was the first trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery? 6. When did Pavel Tretyakov present his collection to the city of Moscow? 7. When and how was the Tretyakov collection greatly enlarged? 8. When was the Tretyakov Gallery closed for reconstruction? 9. What buildings were added to the gallery? 10. What can you say about the Tretyakov Gallery after the reconstruction? 5. Imagine that you are a guide in the Tretyakov Gallery. Speak about… 1. the foudation of the Tretyakov Gallery; 2. Pavel Tretyakov; 3. the expansion of the museum’s collection; 4. pictures painted by Ivan Kramskoy; 5. the painting “The Rooks Have Come” by Alexei Savrasov; 6. any portrait or landscape painting except Kramskoy’s and Savrasov’s; 7. any historical canvas painted by any Russian artist; 8. the Tretyakov Gallery as one of the largest museums in the world. 6. What do you know about… 1. Pavel Tretyakov, the founder of the gallery? 2. “The Travelling Exhibition Society”? 3. Ivan Kramskoy and his portraits? 4. “The Rooks Have Come” by Alexei Savrasov? 5. the reconstruction of the gallery?

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