Pushkin Museum

he museum's art collection includes more than 350 thousand works, including works by Durer, Cranach, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo, works by French Impressionists.

The museum's art gallery opened in 1924, but the first original paintings were donated to the museum by the Russian consul in Trieste, M. S. Shchekin, back in 1910. After 1924, the systematic receipt of paintings from requisitioned private collections, previously owned by the noble families of the Yusupovs, Shuvalov, as well as major Moscow entrepreneurs, including Sergei Tretyakov, Gengih Brokar, Dmitry Shchukin, began. The works of Western European artists stored in the Rumyantsev Museum were transferred to the museum, the receipts from the State Hermitage Museum were of particular importance. The final composition of the art gallery was determined in 1948, when the Museum of New Western Art was liquidated, which housed a collection of French artists of the second half of the XIX - early XX century from the former private collections of Sergei

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as Russian: ГМИИ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.