The name of Boris Zvorykina, one of the founders of the "Russian style" in book illustration and, perhaps, better graphics-ornamentalists early twentieth century, for several decades dwell in oblivion. Original art by this artist until recently, could be assessed only a few connoisseurs, collectors - happy owners of rare and expensive publications issued in the pre-revolutionary Moscow, but the emigre Paris.
The reason for this neglect stemmed from the one hand, initially adopted by this...

"Turkestan vanguard" in the Oriental Museum
 February 5, the State Museum of the East (Nikita Boulevard, 12a) opens the exhibition "Avant-Garde Turkestan", organized by the Museum with the participation of the Fund Marjani, the Russian State Archive of Films (Krasnogorsk) and private collectors.

Artists from various parts of Russia were sent to the East in search of vivid impressions and new artistic forms. Was influenced by Russian avant-garde early XX century, they blazed...

Art as an object of investment and speculation
(Computer translation from English)

According to the 1997 Princeton University WordNet 1,6 dictionary definition of conditions of investment and speculation are as follows:
Investments:
`Law and practice of purchasing land, commodities, stocks, etc., in anticipation of selling at a higher price, or selling in hopes to buy at a lower price, trading on anticipated fluctuations in prices, unlike trade in which the expected...

Andrei Loshak, interview with Peter Aven ...
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In my life everything was going slowly, I had several stages, "bogateniya. I was born in a communal apartment with no hot water, where the mother lit the stove with wood, and by the end of high school, I already lived with his parents in a large three-room apartment on Leninsky Prospekt. Father when I was born, was a PhD and then became a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It was a great change....

In every language there are words (not many), which are intended to express the fundamental features of the national perception of the world. First and foremost among these are the words refer to the essence of creativity, artistic exploration of reality. For Russian, for example, is a way for the British - the image (image - «representation, embodiment, the statue, icon, image, reflection"). When word of such dignity penetrates from one language to another and begins to push its "native" match,...