" Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying the missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they used the Soviet Peace Committee, a government organization, to organize and finance demonstrations in Europe against US bases.

Later allegations that many works of art from the Tretyakov Gallery and other collections were either donated or offered at nominal prices to Post and Davies, who were both art collectors.

* 1932: " Ballad of the Women and the Soldiers " ( with Brecht ); Seven Piano Pieces ; Kleine Sinfonie ( Little Symphony ); Suite No. 4, Music for the Russian film Pesn ' o geroyakh ( Song of Heros ) by Joris Ivens with " Song from the Urals " ( after Sergei Tretyakov ); reused as instrumental piece Op.

Concert of Wanda Landowska in Moscow ( 1907 ), a pastel from the Tretyakov Gallery.

In Tretyakov Gallery, Podgorny was removed from the 1977 painting of the Soviet leaders at the Red Square by Dmitriy Nalbandyan in which Podgorny stood between Brezhnev and Kosygin.

However, one of the most important cult images of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Theotokos of Vladimir kept at the Cathedral from 1395-1919 is now at the Tretyakov Gallery.

In his collection Tretyakov included the most valuable and remarkable products, first of all the contemporaries, from 1870-mainly members of the society of circulating art exhibitions ( Tovarishchestvo peredvizhnyh hudozhestvennyh vystavok or Peredvizhniki, Передвижники in Russian ).

In 1892 Tretyakov inherited a collection of Western European painting from his brother and placed it in two halls of the western school.

Apart from engaging in collecting, Tretyakov was active in charity.

Tretyakov consisted the honorary member of the Society of fans of applied arts and the Musical society from the date of their basis, granted the solid sums, supporting all educational undertakings.

Polenov was the pensioner of academy of arts in Italy and France, where he painted a number of pictures in the spirit of Academism on subjects taken from the European history, such as " Droit de Signeur " ( 1874 ) Tretyakov gallery ; at the same time he worked a lot in the open air.

* Masterpieces from the Tretyakov Gallery

* Icons from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery

General Stoessel had about 17, 000 men and the 4th, 5th, 13th, 14th and 15th East Siberian Rifles, from which about 3, 000 men of the 5th East Siberian Rifles under Colonel Nikolai Tretyakov were dug into fortified positions on Nanshan hill, where they planned to hold out despite knowing they would be greatly outnumbered.

After the October Revolution he advocated removing some of the religious paintings ( notably those by Alexander Ivanov ) from churches to the Tretyakov Gallery.

Port Arthur viewed from the summit of the 203 Meter Hill, November 2004The Russians defenders entrenched on the summit of 203 Meter Hill were commanded by Colonel Tretyakov, and were organized into five companies of infantry with machine gun detachments, a company of engineers, a few sailors and a battery of artillery.

They were only concluded in 2011 after the Tretyakov Gallery was able to arrange sponsorship from a Russian state bank to purchase them for donation to the gallery ’ s permanent collection.

* Harkins, William E: A Dictionary of Russian Literature ( Allen Unwin ), 1957 ( Although this book reports Tretyakov as having " disappeared from literature at the end of the 1930's ")

Aleksey Pisemsky's portrait by Ilya Repin ( 1880 ) from the Tretyakov Gallery.

Among the highlights of TMORA's extensive schedule of exhibitions is Masterpieces of Russian Lacquer Art, featuring over a hundred lacquered miniatures from Fedoskino, Palekh, Kholuy and Mstera on loan from the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City, the State Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow and the Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts of Moscow, as well as from the personal collection of Lucy Maxym, one of the foremost authorities on lacquer artwork.

According to senior SVR officer Sergei Tretyakov, the KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles.

According to Sergei Tretyakov, " The KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles.

Tretyakov wanted to transfer the gallery to the city as discreetly as possible, without any noise ; he didn ’ t want to be in the center of general attention and an object of gratitude.

* October 2000: Sergei Tretyakov, an SVR officer working undercover at the Russian UN mission defected to the United States with his family.

Tretyakov also wrote the controversial " I Want a Baby " (" I Want a Child ") ( 1926 ), which has seen recent performances in Europe and America.

Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The same colour scheme was used by Viktor Vasnetsov for the façade of the Tretyakov Gallery, in which some of the most famous St. George icons are exhibited and which displays St. George as the coat of arms of Moscow over its entrance.

July 30: In Russia, Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly built Catherine Palace, painting ( 1905 ) by Eugene Lanceray ( in Tretyakov Gallery ).

The illustration on the cover of the book is a 1913 painting by Liubov Popova titled " Composition with Figures " and belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Elizaveta Petrovna in Tsarskoe Selo ( 1905 ), painting by Eugene Lanceray, now in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Portrait of Ivan IV by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897 ( Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow )

Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1877 ( Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow ).

Jesus is shown surrounded by a light blue aureola with white flashes of lightning ( 15th century, attributed to Theophanes the Greek, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow ).

The icons by the hand of Andrei Rublev, including the Holy Trinity ( Hospitality of Abraham ), and The Savior, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, are painted on linden wood.

N. P. Ignatyev, by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev | Boris Kustodiev ( State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The legend of her being drowned during the severe flooding 1777 served as the plot for a painting by artist Konstantin Flavitsky ( 1864, Tretyakov Gallery ).

Tretyakov started to collect art in 1854 at the age of 22 ; his first purchase was 10 canvases by Old Dutch masters.

In 1885 Tretyakov bought 102 studies by V. D.

Aspiring to show the beginnings and development of the domestic school of art, Tretyakov began to acquire pictures by masters of the XVIII-first half XIX centuries and landmarks of Old Russian painting.

In 1870-80 Tretyakov also began to collect illustrations ( 471 by 1893 ), since 1890 he formed a collection of icons.

Tretyakov continued to fill up his collection, for example, in 1894 he donated a gallery of 30 pictures, 12 figures and a marble statue “ The Christian martyrs “ works by M. M.

A minor planet 3925 Tret ' yakov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1977 is named after Pavel Tretyakov and his brother Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov ( 1824 – 1892 ).

Sokolniki ) was bought by famous philanthropist and art collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov.

In one of Kramskoi ’ s most well known paintings, Christ in the Desert ( 1872, Tretyakov gallery ), he continued Alexander Ivanov's humanistic tradition by treating a religious subject in moral – philosophical terms.