Interesting facts about Pavel Tretyakov

Interesting facts about Pavel Tretyakov Is a great opportunity to learn more about the Russian collector. He was one of the most famous patrons of art and art in Russia. The collector, using his own savings, built the Tretyakov Gallery, which today is one of the largest museums in the world.

So, here are the most interesting facts about Pavel Tretyakov.

1. Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898) - entrepreneur, philanthropist and major collector of fine arts.
2. Tretyakov grew up and was brought up in a merchant family.
3. As a child, Pavel received education at home, which in those years was a common practice among wealthy families.
4. Having inherited his father's businesses, Pavel, along with his brother, became one of the richest people in the state. It is curious that at the time of Tretyakov's death, his capital reached 3.8 million rubles! In those days, it was a fabulous amount of money.
5. An interesting fact is that up to 200,000 workers worked at Tretyakov's paper mills.
6. Pavel Tretyakov's wife was a cousin to Savva Mamontov, another major philanthropist.
7. Tretyakov began collecting his famous collection of paintings at the age of 25.
8. Pavel Mikhailovich was a great admirer of the work of Vasily Perov, whose paintings he often bought and ordered new ones for him.
9. Did you know that Pavel Tretyakov planned from the very beginning to donate his collection to Moscow (see interesting facts about Moscow)?
10. For 7 years, the construction of the building went on, in which all of Tretyakov's paintings were later exhibited. It should be noted that anyone could visit the gallery.
11. 2 years before his death, Pavel Tretyakov was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Moscow.
12. When the collector handed over all of his canvases to the city government, he received the position of lifelong caretaker and trustee of the gallery.
13. Tretyakov's last phrase was: "Take care of the gallery and be healthy."
14. An interesting fact is that from the very beginning Pavel Tretyakov intended to collect works exclusively by Russian painters, but later paintings by foreign masters appeared in his collection.
15. At the time of the donation by the patron of his gallery to Moscow, it contained up to 2000 works of art.
16. Pavel Tretyakov financed art schools where anyone could get a free education. He also founded a school for deaf and dumb people in the Don province.
17. In the USSR and Russia, stamps, postcards and envelopes with the image of Tretyakov were repeatedly printed.

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