Perhaps I can quite professionally to talk about books, as fond of collecting rare and interesting books published today. Do not confuse them with the gift assortment for the "new Russian" in the skin and gold. A full-fledged co-writer of this book stands illustrator. It is desirable that the illustrations were commissioned by the contemporary artist and printed. Mass repetitions and reprints of old pictures masterpiece of printing can not be considered. In Russia there are hundreds of publishers - and only a few of them make a decent and interesting products.

Book Exposition of Ukraine "striking":

1) Many books in Ukrainian. I doubt that it was interesting to visitors and potential buyers in Moscow.
2) There are many historical books on the "new history of Ukraine": Mazepa, Hetman, Bandera, Shushkevich ....
3) I could find only one book worthy of purchase as an interesting example of printing - Gogol. But ... he asked for a high price (about 7000 rubles, about $ 280), which does not correspond to its level. I decided that the money I'll buy a few books as good as other publishers (eg, Vita Nova, SP-B).
4) Price-based criteria also unpleasantly astonished. I looked thin. album of the Kiev Museum of Russian Art. Sorry, I can be wrong a little bit with the title, because I am writing from memory. But he asked for from 10 to 12 thousand rubles. (about 400-500 dollars), which does not fit into the retail stores prices for albums museums level Hermitage, the Prado, the Louvre, the Uffizi ... which retail price of USD 2500-3000. (100 VE).
    Besides, the exhibition, many publishers offer special prices. So, I brought more than 60 kg. thin. albums, almanacs Russian Museum (SP-B) at prices ranging from 100 to 800 rubles.!


It was frankly boring. People no longer be considered the dark interiors of the Stalinist or pavilion argued the photo-exhibition, which occupied half of the book exhibition. But the same Bendera, genocide and famine, modern photography pensioners Bendera and SS-ovtsev against the background of the monuments of the same - not the best option for the book exhibition.

A solid and brutal policies. This is hardly benefited from Ukraine.
It is better to see once again the Soviet "Pinocchio."