SergeiSK, ".... It is absurd to expect that the fashion for his art comes to us from abroad. It is necessary to shape the market of domestic works of art in this very Fatherland, that the capacity of the national market for art allowed talk about serious sales, may be to form a national auction type "Sotheby's." Paintings, art - is a national asset, not only in the abstract and abstract terms. This is a specific economic concept ......".
http://forum.msk.ru/print.html?id=11002
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The plans are (for large organizations, a Russian auction house already has, and by year's end, he probably already working, talking about this: auction house of the Kremlin ".)
http://www.kremlyovsky.ru/kompl.html
http://www.kremlyovsky.ru/27022004.html
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According to the concept designers, in the complex "Kremlin" located eponymous auction house, Sotheby's equivalent of the Western and Christie's. It also plans to organize a museum-hotel "The Kremlin courtyard, with rooms decorated in the style of different eras of the Kremlin's history (a more ambitious version of the current transformation of a travel Petrovsky Palace). In the "Kremlin" is planned to open a federal center of precious metals and stones, where, as the manager expects the president will make delivery of De Beers, "Alrosa" and private collectors ...."
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Sergei thanks for the links, interesting ..