Tambov Regional Art Gallery, Art museum in Tambov, Russia.

The Tambov Regional Art Gallery occupies a red-brick building erected in 1892 to designs by A. S. Chetverikov for the Naryshkin Public Reading Society, with a hall seating 600 and a book store. Its brickwork is its chief merit, since the building fits no single architectural style. The gallery moved here in 1983; the second floor holds temporary exhibitions.

The building went up in 1892 to plans by A. S. Chetverikov as the Naryshkin Public Reading Hall, opened on 1 July 1894. A provincial art museum formed there in 1918 from the reading hall's art section and nationalised collections of the Arapov, Baratynsky, Boldyrev, Naryshkin and Stroganov families, closing in 1929. The Pushkin library occupied the house until 1979, and the art gallery moved in in 1983.

The building began as the Naryshkin Public Reading Room, opened on 1 July 1894 with a name approved by the emperor; a lending library and a history-ethnography museum followed in 1896. From 1932 its upper floor housed Tambov's first sound cinema, "Komsomolets". The gallery's collection grew from the art section of that reading room and from nationalised private collections of the Arapov, Baratynsky, Boldyrev, Naryshkin and Stroganov families.

Plan your visit around your interest in the art periods and styles on display, and allow time to move through the different exhibition areas at a comfortable pace. Guided tours and workshops on various artistic techniques are available to help you get more out of the experience.

The red-brick building was put up in about eighteen months for the Society of Popular Readings, using then-modern materials: running water, sewers and electricity. Its main hall held 600 people, and a wing beside it, built on the site of an old guardhouse, housed the caretaker and librarian and from 1894 served as a book store.