Museum Basil Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time was founded in 1969 by famous Russian collector of objects of antiquity, art collector and connoisseur of art by Felix Wisniewski, ITAR-TASS.

In 1969, he not only donated 250 paintings, but the building itself. Until now, the grandson and great-grandchildren Wisniewski come to the museum, look Tropinin paintings that belonged to his grandfather. However, his fascination with nobody succeeded - now collecting expensive.

Sam Felix Wisniewski seriously spend only one picture Tropinin - "Girl with a bowl of roses." "Most of the stuff he found in a damaged condition, made attributes, and nothing appeared out of masterpieces", - told the TV channel "Culture" grandson Felix Wisniewski Yuri Vishnevsky.

The museum was closed for restoration in 2002, after many masterpieces have been filled with boiling water due to pipe breaks on the upper floors of the building. Museum planned to open first in 2003, then in - 2009.

During the museum closes for repairs was carried out restoration of more than 200 exhibits. Among them - a masterpiece of the 1 st third of XVIII century "Portrait of Princess Anne Leopoldovna" (1733) Brush a court painter of the Russian Imperial House Frenchman Louis Caravaca, sketches for the iconostasis of the circle by an unknown artist Vladimir Borovikovsky "Apostles" (1780), have undergone unique restoration ; the work of Karl Ludwig Hristineka "Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a pink dress with the code of Catherine II in St Andrew's tape" (1770). Alexander Makovsky's painting "In the village. Saray (the beginning of XX century) in the process of restoration has gained circulation with the image of" Interior artist's studio. "

Artist Vasily Tropinin known primarily as a portraitist. He was born in 1776 and until 1823 was a serf. Already in 1824 Tropinin won freedom, became an academician of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. http://www.newsru.com/cinema/18mar2011/tropinin.html