Lev Anisimov’s book tells about the life and work of the famous patron and collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, whose idea—“from the very young years”—was “to earn for the sake of returning what has been earned to society (the people) in some useful institutions.”
Here we meet wonderful painters: I. N. Kramskoy, I. I. Shishkin, I. E. Repin—a whole constellation not only of Russian artists, but also other representatives of national and world culture.