THE BRITISH MUSEUM
There are many interesting museums in London.
The British Museum was founded in 1753. One physician Ganse Sloan had a large aggregation of pictures. He bequeathed it to the province. Now the British Museum is one of the biggest museums in the universe. One can see many topics of crude art and antique civilization. It is interesting to detect that there are a batch of old money, decorations, manuscripts, coins, engravings.
It is necessary to pay attending to a really old original rock in the British Museum with Egyptian letters on it.
The British Museum in London has a really large library. Many celebrated scientists, authors and politicians worked there.Such celebrated authors as Charles Dickens, Bernard Show read different books and wrote their ain books in the British Library.
There is a immense reading-room in the British Library. The diameter of this dome is 47 meters.
There are more 10 million books in this library. The British Library has a transcript of each book which has been printed in Great Britain since 1757.
It will be 250 old ages from the initiation of the British Museum in 2003.
THE TATE GALLERY IN LONDON
There are many sights in London. They are Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Albert Hall ( one of the biggest concert halls in London ) , Trafalgar Square and others.
If you are affectionate of pictures you ‘ll travel to the Tate Gallery.
The laminitis of this gallery was Henry Tate, a sugar maker. He was a really rich adult male and gathered pictures.
This gallery was founded in 1897. Most of the National Gallery aggregations of British pictures were taken to the Tate Gallery.
There are about 300 oils and 19,000 watercolors and drawings.
There are a batch of pictures by the sixteenth century English creative persons at that place. You can besides see many plants by the English painter William Turner. Most of his pictures are connected with the sea subject.
You can see many pictures by foreign creative persons of the 19-20th centuries in the Tate Gallery. There are some pictures by impressionists and Postimpressionists at that place.
In the Tate Gallery one can see plants
by modern painters, Pablo Picasso among them.
There are many interesting sculptures at that place. The aggregation is instead large. Henry Moore ‘s plants can be seen in this gallery. He was a celebrated British sculpturer.
The pictures of this gallery impress everyone who visits it.
THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY
There are many interesting galleries in our state. The Tretyakov Gallery is one of the celebrated and well-known image galleries in our state and all over the universe.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is situated in a Russian-looking edifice in the Centre of Moscow. This gallery is named after its laminitis Peter Tretyakov. He began to roll up Russian pictures in 1856. He wanted these pictures to be seen by people.
This gallery and aggregations of pictures were nationalized in 1918.The first plants in Tretyakov ‘s aggregation were the pictures of the “ Peredvizhniki ” . The aggregator bought pictures “ Morning in a Pine Wood ” by Shish-kin and “ Ivan Tsarevich on the Grey Wolf ” by Vasnetsov.
The gallery has got many halls. There are halls devoted to the great Russian painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. We can see images by such painters as Serov, Repin, Ivanov, Levitan and others.
You can see the landscapes “ After Rain ” and “ Aureate Fall ” . These pictures by Levitan are beautiful. I like to see his pictures because he is one of my favorite creative persons. I compare his painting “ Aureate Fall ” with the verse form “ Autumn ” by Pushkin.
There are some pictures by Repin in the Tretyakov Gallery. His pictures are connected with the history of our state. For illustration, his painting “ Ivan Grozny Murders His Son Ivan ” . There are some portrayals of Lev Tolstoy and a self-portrait of Repin in this hall.
I like the picture “ Trinity ” by Andrei Rublyov. This work reflects the life and psyche of the Russian people.
This gallery has many new exhibits now. You can see plants of the painters of the terminal of the 19th and the beginning of the twentieth century at that place. I like plants by Gerasimov. I think that he is a really gifted painter.
