ПЕРЕВЕДИТЕ ТЕКСТ The building of the Pushkin Museum appeared at the beginning of the 20th century in a small old Moscow Street…

ПЕРЕВЕДИТЕ ТЕКСТ The building of the Pushkin Museum appeared at the beginning of the 20th century in a small old Moscow Street Volkhonka. The museum opened in 1912. At first the museum exhibited — its halls copies of famous sculptures. Later the museum bought original masterpieces. Now the collection of sculptures in the Pushkin Museum is one of the best in the world. The building itself is an architectural masterpiece. The collection of paintings is not as large as the one in the Hermitage but the Pushkin Museum houses many originals of Italian, Spanish, Dutch and other famous artists. Now it is the second largest museum of art in Russia. Russian people are proud of the large collection of paintings of French artists of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries which are on the display of the museum.