Radischev Fine Arts State Museum

The Radishchev State Fine Arts Museum in Saratov is one of the country's oldest museums and the first open-door art exhibition in provincial Russia. The Radishchev Museum in Saratov opened to the public on June 29, 1885. It is supposed to have been Russia's first major public art museum outside Moscow or St. Petersburg. It was founded by Alexey Bogolyubov and named after his grandfather Alexander Radishchev.