Gift of Professor VN Golubeva
 

In 1988 Alupka Palace Museum received a gift of the largest private collection in the Crimea - 91 paintings and 113 graphic sheets.

A quarter century of collecting scientist-biologist at the Nikita Botanical Gardens, Professor
VN Golubev.
Vitaliy Golubev was born in 1926.
Seventeen years old, became a member of the Great Patriotic War.
After graduating from teacher's college in 1951, devoted his life to biology and made some remarkable discoveries.

Degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences was awarded in 1966, without giving the dissertation, based on two monographs.
Over 35 years of scientific activity he published more than 300 scientific papers and has developed a number of promising directions in geobotany and biomorphology.

Interest in art is just as strong and sustained as to science.
During the years of collecting he managed to gather a complete and remarkably valuable collection.
It presents practically all areas of Russian and modern avant-garde art of the 20 th century. As well as a number of brilliant artists of the past and present

In Crimea the integrity of the collection is growing more because so many of these art works were written either at Yalta, Alupka Ãóðçóôå or created by the artists at work that Crimea had a salutary effect

Taking this precious and selfless gift and expressing his admiration of a feat of civil scientist, Alupka Palace Museum opens in its walls a permanent collection exhibition professor VN Golubev.

lucky Alupkinskoe palace, quite a lot of good works in this collection.