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The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина) is the largest Museum of European Art in Moscow , located in the Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour . The museum's name is totally misleading, as it has nothing to do with the famous Russian Poet . It would be fair if the museum was named for its real founder, professor Ivan Tsvetaev (father of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva ). Tsvetaev persuaded the young Millionaire Yuriy Nechaev-Maltsev and the fashionable architect Roman Klein of the urgent need to give Moscow a fine arts museum. Designed by Klein and financed by Maltsev, the museum building had been constructed from 1898 to 1912. The dream of Tsvetaev's life came true in May 1912 , when the museum opened its doors to the public. Its first exhibits were copies of ancient Statuary , thought indispendable for education of art students. The only genuinely ancient items - Moscow Mathematical Papyrus and Story Of Wenamun - had been contributed by Vladimir Golenishchev three years earlier. After the Russian capital was moved to Moscow in 1918 , the Soviet government decided to transfer thousands of works from St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum to the new capital. These Painting s formed a nucleus of the Pushkin museum's collections of Western art. But the most important paintings were added later from the State Museum Of New Western Art . These comprised a supreme assortment of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artwork, including top works by Van Gogh , Gauguin , Picasso , and Matisse . After the World War II the evacuated Dresden Gallery had been stored in Moscow for 10 years. The Dresden collection was finally returned to East Germany , despite strong opposition from the museum officials, notably M-me Antonova, who has been running the museum since February 1961. The Pushkin Museum is still a main depositary of Troy 's Fabulous Gold unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann and confiscated by the Red Army from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin . The International musical festival '' Svyatoslav Richter 's December nights'' has been held in the Pushkin museum since 1981. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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