About the book: 2023 / How was the Museum of Fine Arts created - the current Pushkin Museum, which has become a reserve of world culture in the center of old Moscow? This book is about how the idea of ​​a unique museum was formed, how a unique building was built on Volkhonka, how the tireless professor Ivan Tsvetaev collected the museum collection bit by bit, how he knocked on the doors of patrons and government dignitaries. How his heirs turned Pushkinsky into one of the greatest museums in the world, without which it is impossible to imagine the cultural life of the country.