The Art Gallery to visit in Moscow is the Tertyakov Museum. Originally a private collection it is now a repository of all major Russian masterpieces. Visitng the gallery provides the opportunity to see samples of all major Russian artists through the ages and, sadly, to realize that these artists are not represented in Western galleries.

To provide a taste for the best of Russian art I offer twenty-four examples, principally from the Tretyakov Museum as well as a separate room for another twelve of Isaak Levitan's paintings..

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Here first is a Quicktime movie clip showing a painting from the Tretyakov as a viewer might focus on different parts of it with the sound of visitors in the background.

The name of the painter was not recorded.

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Portrait of the Artists's Son

by Vasily Tropinin

The Rider

by Karl Bryllov

The Corn

by Ivan Shishkin

A Girl with Peaches

by Valentin Serov

The Oaks

by Ivan Shishkin

Study of a peasant

by Ivan Kramskoy

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin

by Orest Kiprensky

Rain

by Valentin Serov

Autumn in Bavaria

by Wally Kandinsky 1908

The Lime Trees

by Ivan Shishkin

The Peasants' Wedding

by Maksimov

Black and Violet

by Wally Kandinsky 1923

The Volga

by Wally Kandinsky

The Turf Bench

by Ilya Repin

The Washerwomen

by Abram Arkhipov

The Rooks have returned

by Alexey Sarasov