Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Zhivopisny bridge


Menshikov Tower (Church of Archangel Gabriel)



Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthdox Church. It was built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov  by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. It was substantially altered in 1770

Street Art by the river


Tretyakov Gallery




The State Tretyakov Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant Pavel Tretyakov.
He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892.  The Gallery has since become a world-famous museum .  Nowadays it contains more than 170 000 works by Russian artists from the early religious paintings to the modern art objects.