person
Pavel Tretyakov
Tretyakov
also: Третьяков, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov
Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898), the Moscow merchant and collector whose private gallery of Russian art (later the Tretyakov Gallery) was, in the 1880s, still his own to open or close at will; the narrator shrugs off the closing of Moscow's one decent picture gallery as no concern of his.
Reading notes
- In Moscow §13 Tretyakov
Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898), the Moscow merchant and collector whose private gallery of Russian art was, in the 1880s, still his own to open or close; the narrator's shrug at its closing is offered as another symptom of his aesthetic indifference.