State Historical Museum is located on Red Square. The museum
was founded by order of Alexander II in 1872 and was originally dedicated to the
Crimean War. While the first exhibitions were held, was a competition to design the museum building, whose construction was completed in 1881, design of the interiors of the museumwas not until 1912
family bought the house Tretyakov Tretyakov in 1851 not only collected the works
of art, but also exposed them to the public, and this required space.
In 1867, when Tretyakov opened the exhibition, there were
more than 1.5 thousandpaintings by Russian and foreign authors, sculptures and drawings. At the time oftransmission in galleries around the city in 1892 the collection was supplementedwith icons, paintings and drawings. The famous facade of the gallery was designedby the artist Vasnetsov and carried out by architects and Bashkirov Kalmykov in1900 - 1903's. The current name was in the gallery in 1918