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The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a 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.