The Beliy Gorod or “White Town” is the residential district that encircles the Kremlin. There are countless museums and sights situated in the Beliy Gorod, but probably two of the most important are south of Tverskaya ulitsa, on ulitsa Volkhonka: the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Private Collections.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has a vast collection. All its exhibits cannot be displayed at the same time. so enormous are its treasures. It has in recent years displayed much of the Trophy art seized from the Nazis especially the treasure of King Priam of Troy.
The new Museum of Private Collections displays antique and modern art that has not been seen by the public in decades. There are pen and wash drawings by Salvador Dali and drawings by Matisse, nineteenth-century works by Ilya Repin and a feast of twentieth-century art, including two rooms devoted to Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova. 