Pavel Tretyakov

Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898) was a Russian merchant and art collector who built a major collection of Russian art and founded the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Tretyakov Gallery: A Moscow art museum founded from Pavel Tretyakov’s collection of Russian art. The institution Tretyakov created to preserve and display his collection.
Sergei Tretyakov: A Russian merchant and art collector who served as Moscow’s mayor and founded a collection of Western European art. Pavel’s brother also collected art, and his collection later joined the gallery.
Peredvizhniki: A Russian realist artists’ association that organized traveling exhibitions from 1871. Their socially engaged paintings became central to Tretyakov’s collecting.
Art patronage: Financial or material support given to artists and artistic institutions. Tretyakov’s purchases and institutional gift made private patronage publicly consequential.
Imperial Academy of Arts: A state art institution founded in Saint Petersburg in 1757 to train and regulate artists. Its official academic priorities differed from Tretyakov’s support for contemporary Russian painting.
The Rooks Have Returned: A 1871 landscape painting by Alexei Savrasov depicting rooks returning to a village near Kostroma. A celebrated painting by Savrasov, whose work Tretyakov collected.
Vera Tretyakova: The wife of Pavel Tretyakov and a member of the Tretyakov family. She shared the family life surrounding Tretyakov’s collecting and supported the gallery’s legacy.
Russian realism: A nineteenth-century artistic movement depicting Russian life and society in recognizable detail. It describes the artistic direction that defined much of Tretyakov’s collection.
Public art museum: An institution that collects and exhibits art for public access. His collection became a museum open to the public rather than remaining a private holding.
Hermitage Museum: A major museum in Saint Petersburg that originated in the Russian imperial art collection. The Hermitage grew from imperial collecting, unlike Tretyakov’s merchant-funded civic gallery.

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Ivan the Terrible and His Son IvanRelated: Tretyakov acquired the painting, placing it within the collection that established Repin’s public reputation.