In Zamoskvorechye Lavrushinsky Lane , in a house which the family bought the Tretyakov in 1851, is the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery. Since the growth of permanent collection features superior Exposition Gallery, to the residential part of the mansion gradually build out new space needed to store and display works of art.These extensions were made in 1873 , 1882 , 1885 , 1892 and 1902-1904 , when there was a famous Vasnetsovsky facade, which became the emblem of the Tretyakov Gallery.
April 2, 1913 the Moscow City Duma , elected trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery Igor Grabar Emmanuilovich , a prominent artist, architect and art historian.Importantly, what was marked activity Grabar - reforms that have turned into a museum Tretyakov gallery with an exhibition of European type , built in chronological order . In early December 1913, the fifteenth anniversary of the death of the founder of Gallery, reformed the museum was open to the public.June 3, 1918 The CPC issued a decree that declared the state-owned Tretyakov gallery of the Russian Federative Soviet Republic. Since then, the museum was renamed the State Tretyakov Gallery . After the nationalization of the director of the gallery was named Igor Grabar .During the first years of Soviet power assembly Gallery greatly increased , again sharply raised the question of expansion of its premises.
did much to expand the existing premises and extension of the new academic architecture A. Shchusev , who became director in 1926.In 1927 the gallery received a nearby house on small Tolmachevo Lane ( the former home of Sokolikova ). After restructuring in 1928, he became the office building where the administration has housed Galleries , academic departments , library, department of manuscripts, graphic funds . Go to the Gallery building is joined in a special annexe .In 1928, the radically been refurbished heating and ventilation. In 1929 the gallery was electrified (before it was opened to visitors only during the day) .
In 1929 the church was closed St. Nicholas Tolmachi, and in 1932 the building was handed over to the Gallery and it was store- painting and sculpture.Later it was connected to the exposition halls re- aligned two-storey building , the upper floor of which was specifically designed for exhibiting paintings AA Ivanov The Appearance of Christ the People (the Messiah) ( 1837-1857 ).It was built as a transition between rooms, located on either side of the main stairs , which ensured the continuity of the review. As a result of these changes increased exhibition space of the museum and began work on a new concept of accommodation works.
In 1936, completed the construction of a new two-storey building on the north side of the main building - the so-called schusevskogo Corps, whose spacious rooms were first used for exhibitions, and since 1940 have been included in the primary route of exposure.
Building Gallery noticeably affected by the bombing during the Second World War (1941-1945) : Two high-explosive bombs , which fell as a result of a raid by German aircraft destroyed in several places in the glass roofing , floors of some rooms , suffered major stroke .Restoration Gallery began in 1942 and by 1944 40 of the 52 rooms have been renovated , making it possible to return items from the evacuation. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery , celebrated in 1956, the hall was completed by Alexander Ivanov . By this time the collection numbered more than 35,000 works of art.
By the mid -1980s, increasing numbers of visitors , trips , school clubs already struggling to fit within the museum. Again there was the need to expand the exhibition area . This question was engaged YK Korolev (1929-1992) , during the decade and a half head of the Tretyakov Gallery ( 1980-1993 ).
The construction work began in 1983. Two years later, was commissioned in the depository - the repository of works of art, which also features the restoration workshops . In 1986 he began the reconstruction of the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery (designed by IM Winogradsky , GV Astafjevs , BAKlimov and others ), based on the idea of preserving the historic appearance of the building . In 1989, on the south side of the main building was erected a new building, which housed a conference room, Computer Centre , a children's studio and exhibition spaces. They in 1992-1994, an exhibition of masterpieces from the collection of the Gallery.In the same building has focused much of the engineering systems and services, so it was called the Corps of Engineers .
The principal feature of the reconstruction plan was the inclusion in the museum ensemble church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi ( monument of the XVII century ), after its restoration and blessing .The temple has been approved in the status of the house church , the museum at the Tretyakov Gallery. Construction in Lavrushinsky Lane took almost ten years , from 1985 to 1995 .
Today, the complex of buildings Tretyakov Gallery , located between Little Tolmachevsky Lavrushinsky and alleys - a favorite place not only Muscovites , but also to many guests.
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