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The solemn ceremony of stone laying of the Museum took place on August 17, 1898 in the presence of the Emperor Nicolas II and members of the royal family. The Museum was opened on May 31, 1912 as a Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III under the University of Moscow. On May 31, 1923 ceased its subordination to the University. In 1932 was named The State Museum of Fine Arts, in 1937 was named in honor of Alexander Pushkin the great Russian poet.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has one of the most representative collections in Russia of art dated from ancient times to modern days. The exposition of the Museum includes a vast collection of tinted plaster casts of famous ancient, medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a collection of original works of foreign artists, sculptors and graphics together with objects of decorative arts. The rooms of the ground floor present mainly the original works of art of Ancient Egypt, antiquities, European paintings of the VII-XVIII centuries; two halls - Italian and Greek courtyards are housing casts. On the first floor there are rooms with casts of Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages and Renaissance. The rooms of painting acquaint the public with the art of the XIXth and XXth centuries
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