YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, ARMENPRESS. Tretyakov State Gallery will introduce in 2016 a large-scale international project; together with London's National Portrait Gallery and the Vatican Museums it will exhibit a retrospective of Hovhannes Aivazovsky and reveal the secrets of the museum during the exhibition "Secrets of old paintings."

One of the largest museum projects this year - the exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (July-November), which will reunite the most important paintings of the artist: "Rainbow" and "Black Sea" from the State Tretyakov Gallery, as well as "The Ninth Wave" and "Wave” from the Russian Museum. The exhibition will present 100 paintings and 50 graphic works by Aivazovsky including never-before-exhibited painting "Along the coast of the Caucasus."