Kiev Picture Gallery based on the private collections. It is located in the house built in mid-1880s that belonged to Fedor Tereschenko (1832-1894) – influential public figure, merchant, one of the famous dynasties of the “sugar barons of Ukraine”, well-known patron of arts and collector. He was on   friendly terms with many Russian painters and other collectors, 25 years he dedicated to organize his private collection and when it was finished he opened its doors to Kievans. Until 1934 the museum was known as the Kiev Picture Gallery. Not all the canvass and sculptures that were initially in its collection survived, many of them were lost forever, some are in other museums. In 1930s the museum  acquired from other Ukrainian museums  the works of those Ukrainian artists who lived and created most of their masterpieces in Russia: Vladimir Borovikovskyi, Dmitryi Levitskyi,  Nickolai Yaroshenko, Nickolai  Ge, Mikhail Vrubel and Illia Repin (the statue of this artist stands in front of the museum building). To-day the museum collection contains over 12 000 pieces of paintings, sculptures, graphic and applied arts. The museum is famous for a collection of icons dating back to the 12^th -17^th centuries. There is also a large collection of the 19^th – 20^th century paintings as well as the 20^th –century modernist and socialist-realistic art. The museum holds frequent jubilee exhibitions to popularize Russian art.  The street where the museum is located bares the name of its founder Fedor Tereschenko. Kievans often call this street as a ‘museum” street because in some hundred metres there is another Kiev museum of Western and Oriental Arts.