# The most famous paintings in the Tretyakov Gallery

The Tretyakov's great masterpieces recommended by guidebooks and museum guides, from Rublev's Trinity to Vrubel's Demon.

- 26 votes · 19 items
- Jan 30, 2025 · Евгений Новиков
- https://even.best/en/l/2327/the-most-famous-paintings-in-the-tretyakov-gallery

## Top 19

1. **Portrait of an Unknown Woman — Ivan Kramskoi** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1883. A mysterious lady in a carriage.
2. **The Trinity — Andrei Rublev** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — c. 1411 or 1425-1427. The most famous Russian icon.
3. **Morning in a Pine Forest — Shishkin and Savitsky** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1889. The bears in the forest everyone knows from a sweet wrapper.
4. **Girl with Peaches — Valentin Serov** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1887. A portrait of twelve-year-old Vera Mamontova.
5. **The Rooks Have Come Back — Alexei Savrasov** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1871. Early spring and the birth of Russian landscape painting.
6. **The Morning of the Streltsy Execution — Vasily Surikov** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1881. Peter the Great and the execution of the Streltsy on Red Square.
7. **Portrait of Alexander Pushkin — Orest Kiprensky** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1827. The best-known portrait of the poet made in his lifetime.
8. **Our Lady of Vladimir** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 12th century. A Byzantine icon, one of Russia's holiest images.
9. **The Appearance of Christ Before the People — Alexander Ivanov** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1837-1857. Twenty years of work on a single canvas.
10. **Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan — Ilya Repin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1885. A father who has just mortally wounded his son.
11. **Boyarynya Morozova — Vasily Surikov** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1884-1887. An Old Believer is taken into exile.
12. **The Swan Princess — Mikhail Vrubel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1900. The heroine of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.
13. **Alyonushka — Viktor Vasnetsov** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1881. A sad girl by a pond.
14. **They Did Not Expect Him — Ilya Repin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1884-1888. An exile unexpectedly returns home.
15. **An Aristocrat's Breakfast — Pavel Fedotov** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1849-1850. An impoverished dandy hides his meagre breakfast.
16. **Bogatyrs — Viktor Vasnetsov** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1881-1898. Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya and Alyosha on guard.
17. **The Apotheosis of War — Vasily Vereshchagin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1871. A pyramid of skulls in the desert.
18. **The Demon Seated — Mikhail Vrubel** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1890. The start of his Demon series.
19. **The Horsewoman — Karl Bryullov** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1832. A grand portrait on a prancing horse.

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