World history and culture: The exhibition “From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London” in Moscow

April 23, 2016 at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) was opened the exhibition "From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London", which is held within the Year of Language and Literature of Great Britain and Russia in 2016.

The exhibition includes portraits of outstanding people of British history and culture: Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson, Isaac Newton, James Cook, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, George G. Byron, Walter Scott, Jerome K. Jerome.

This exposition is the first collaboration of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London.