Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is one of the major art collections
in Russia, exhibiting foreign works of arts ranging from
ancient times to the present. Originally conceived as a
training and educational center with the Moscow University.
The money for the creation of the museum came from public
donatations, while the initiate came from a group of Moscow
University professors, headed by Prof. Tsvetaev, thus establishing
the Museum in 1912. The Museum's premises were built in
1898-1912 on the design of architect Roman Klein.
The Museum housed a rich collection of dyed plaster casts,
copies of renowned sculptures of the ancient times, the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Along with casts, the prerevolutionary Museum also included
small collection of original works, the most valuable of
which was the remarkable collection of Ancient Egyptian
art, acquired from a well-known Russian egyptologist Vladimir
Golenischev - the best collection of this kind in our country.
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