The Museum of V.A. Tropinin and Contemporary Moscow Artists was established in 1969 by a well-known Moscow collector, Maecenas of the XXth century, Felix Yevgenyevich Vishnevsky who had donated about 300 works of painting, graphic, decorative and applied art to the city of Moscow. Among the donations of Vishnevsky there were pieces of art by I.Ya.Vishnyakov, A.P.Antropov, I.P.Argunov, F.S.Rokotov, V.L.Borovikovsky, D.G.Levitsky, O.A.Kiprensky, a considerable collection of works by V.A. Tropinin, a favourite Moscow portrait painter, a collection of portraits in water-colours including works by P.F. Sokolov, A.P. Bryullov, V.I. Hau and others. For about forty years of its existence the museum has increased its collection almost ten times more. The museum is a unique repository of Moscow artistic culture of XVIIIth-XIXth centuries, its exposition is devoted to the history of the Russian portrait, painting, graphics, decorative and applied art of that period