To watch the opera, I naturally had to dress up and travel, so I picked out a black velvet dress. André also opted for a black suit. Looking at the outfits of both of us, I think we're both a little too dignified, hehe, but this dress is very appropriate to our theme.

Sitting in the Grand Opera House, I looked around and didn't see a single Chinese.

When the performance began, I saw Andre and the audience, who seemed to have nothing to do with China, looking intently at the Chinese princess Turandot on the stage, and suddenly felt very ridiculous: in this theater, people who are attracted by the story that happened in China at this moment do not understand what China is?

However, I don't think anyone in the theater seems to think about it except me, including Andre. People are attracted by the wonderful performances of the actors.

The audience was immersed in the captivating tunes and the fiery emotions of the characters interpreted by the superb singing.

Seeing the lessons of the Persian prince did not stop the Tatar prince from taking risks.

Looking at this classic opera, I try to find the roots of what makes it a classic.

When at the end of the opera, Turandot says that the prince's name is love, I seem to understand. It doesn't matter where the story takes place, it can take place in China, India, Jamaica, Austria or Egypt and Australia! The theme revealed in the opera is the celebration of the human quest for beauty and love.

Yes, the last thing you should live up to in life is beauty and love, right?

After the show, Andrea and I discussed my understanding of Turandot. Andrei agrees with me.

Since you can't live up to beauty and love. Then we will not ignore our beauty plan.

There was still a person in the car to sit down, and I invited Qiu Si.

Before returning home, I came to the Tretyakov Gallery with Marie Sauer, Rosa, Andrey, Tyusi and our long-awaited Tretyakov Gallery.

The ticket seller at the gate saw us, an international group from five continents, and proudly said to us: "The whole world loves us as a gallery"!

The Tretyakov Gallery, also known as the State Tretyakov Gallery, is one of the greatest art collections in Russia.

The gallery was founded in 1856 by the wealthy Moscow merchant and art collector P.M. Tretyakov.

The gallery is divided into 60 galleries, usually in chronological order, among which the treasures are the oil paintings of the masters of the Russian traveling exhibition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Tretyakov Gallery currently has a collection of 130,000 works from the 11th to the 20th century.

Pavel M. Tretyakov was an entrepreneur in the Tsarist era who loved art. And it is determined to self-finance the creation of a sizable art museum in Moscow for the general public. Tretyakov's collection was rigorously selected. It's not a good work, and he resolutely doesn't buy it. The gallery's reputation grew, and some painters took great pride to have their works in the gallery.

Sergei M. Tretyakov was the younger brother of Pavel M. Tretyakov and a collector of fine arts, specializing in Western European paintings. But he died an unfortunate young death. On his deathbed, he asked his brother to dedicate his entire collection to Moscow.

In 1870, Kramskoy, Perov, and others founded the "Society of Fine Arts for Traveling Exhibitions", which held regular exhibitions.

Pavel Tretyakov was not only a devout art lover, an outstanding collector of fine arts, but also an enlightened gentleman with an emancipated mind. He not only paid lip service to the artistic practice of the Itinerant School, but also gave them a great deal of material and spiritual support.

Pavel visited exhibitions of itinerant artists, and at the same time acquired and ordered works that reflected the realities of Russian life. It was with the help of "bosom friend Pavel" that the creative passion of the itinerant painters was ignited again and again, and their social status was greatly improved, and the influence of their works in society was expanded.

In Russian society at that time, if a painter's work could be collected by the Tretyakov Gallery, it would mean that he had won a very high honor; And for Tretyakov Gallery, it is also a pride to be able to collect a large number of epoch-making works of itinerant painters.

Wandering through the Tretyakov Gallery, one can see Repin's famous painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son", which depicts the tragedy of Tsar Ivan IV, who killed his beloved son and heir to the throne with a scepter in a fit of rage.

There is also Surikov's Morning Before the Execution of the Guards, a work completed in 1881 that depicts the most tragic episode of Peter I's life, the last moments before his execution after quelling the Guards mutiny in 1698. In the picture, the Guards are generously dying, some are comforting their relatives who are about to part, and some are glaring at Peter I, who is "imprisoned" in the distance. The scene is poignant and tragic, full of sublime beauty.

The Tretyakov Gallery also houses famous works by itinerant painters such as Surikov's "Aristocrat Morozova", "Stepan Racin", Kramskoy's "Unknown Girl", "Peasant with Mahler", Perov's "Three Sets of Carriages", Levitan's "Little Birch Grove", "Golden Autumn", Shishkin's "Rye Fields", Serov's "Girl and Peach", "Girl in the Sun" and others.

In the gallery you can see Kramskoy's oil paintings "Irrepressible Grief" and "Christ in the Wilderness", Perov's oil painting "Funeral", Repin's "Volga Fiberv", Vasnetsov's "Three Warriors", Levitan's "Eternal Tranquility" and other masterpieces.

In addition, the Tretyakov Gallery ordered a large number of portraits of celebrities from itinerant painters, including not only portraits of writers Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ostrovsky, Nekrasov, but also portraits of anatomist Pirogov, composer Mussorgsky and others.

It can be said that without the Tretyakov Gallery, there would be no splendor of the itinerant school; And without the works of the itinerant school, the status of the Tretyakov Gallery would have been eclipsed. Due to its historical ties with the itinerant school, the Tretyakov Gallery has become a permanent pride of Russian national art.

Just as Andre said that enjoying life also requires talent, so it may not be enough to enjoy art only with talent, it really needs knowledge and cultivation in this area.

Marie Sauer is more professional than we are, and her comments on the technique of each masterpiece have deepened our understanding of these works of art.

Lingering in the gallery, we really didn't want to leave. Everyone was amazed by the paintings and felt that their hearts were shocked by the peerless beauty of these works!

If the opera "Turandot" can make the soul feel the magic of love, then the Tretyakov Gallery is a baptism of beauty for the soul.

At this moment, I am reminded of that sentence again: only beauty and love can not be disappointed!