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Alice: I wonder why this passage ( proyezd) is called Tretyakov. As far as I know Pavel Tretyakov was the founder of the world-famous art gallery. Does the name “Tretyakov “ have anything to do with the famous art patron?

Nick: It does. In 1871 Pavel Tretyakov and his brother made up their minds to improve the city road communications and they had that passage made through the Kitaigorodskaya Wall.

A.: What was the reason for doing it?

N.: The passage connected Nickolskaya Street and Theatrical Passage. It provided a short cut for passers-by and gave way to all means of traffic.

A.: I believe it was expensive to do the job.

N.: It certainly was. It cost quite a lot of money. It was the brothers Tretyakov who denoted the money to the city.

A.: Where did the money come from? How could they afford it?

N.: The brothers were merchants and did well in business.

A.: Do you happen to know how Pavel Tretyakov started his famous art collection?

N.: The first painting appeared in the house of Tretyakov in Lavrushinskiy Lane in 1856. Tretyakov bought the painting “Temptation”(«Искушение»), by Schilder. Since then he visited all the exhibitions art studios and bought the best paintings of contemporary artists.

A.: Aren’t there works of different genres in his collection? It seems to me there are even icons in it.

N.: You are right. Little by little Pavel Tretyakov extended his interests and began to collect earlier Russian paintings.

A.: How could his house hold all those paintings?

N.: He had to add wings to his house in Lavrushinskiy Lane several times.

A.: Did everybody have a chance to enjoy the paintings?

N.: In 1881 Pavel Tretyakov opened his collection to the public. Eleven years later he denoted it to the city.

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Read the text and answer the questions

1 When was the first Russian ABC book published?

2 Who was its author?

3 Was it cheap or expensive?

4 What picture opened the primer?

5 How many books did Vasiliy Burtsov-Protopopov publish?

The text

In 1634 the first Russian ABC book was published in Moscow. It was also called a primer. Its author was Vasiliy Burtsov-Protopopov. The primer cost one kopeck. Everybody could afford to buy it. The primer opened with a picture in which a teacher was punishing a lazy pupil with a whip. The picture had a caption:”The whip makes the brain sharper, wakens up memory and whipping results in educational progress.” V. Burtsov-Protopopov worked at the Moscow Printing House. He published 17 books.

5.3.1 Make up a dialogue in which you are welcome to use the following phrases: I wonder if you have any idea when, cheap(expensive), to play an important part in education, to have(to give) a whipping, a traditional punishment, to do away with whipping, the Moscow Printing House.

5.3.2 Write down several sentences about your impressions of your primer: what appealed to you in it, what picture(text) you still remember and why.

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