Exhibition in Memory Sawa Yamshchikova VOOPIiK until 30 September

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In the All-Russia Society for Protection of Monuments of History and Culture (VOOPIiK) An exhibition of memory Sawa Yamshchikova.
  9 - September 30 (Moscow, Gagarinskij per.d.4 \ 2).

Chairman of the Association of Restorers of Russia, art critic, essayist, academician of RANS Savelij V. Yamshchikov died July 19, 2009. For many years he was a member of the Presidium of the CA VOOPIiK. The name Yamshchikova involved in numerous initiatives and actions of the Company to preserve and promote cultural heritage of the Fatherland. He was professional in his field, a man of honor and higher spiritual culture. At the ceremony, the first national awards "Heritage Keepers" (Moscow, Pashkov House, 21 April 2009), the winner of which he became, Sawa Yamshchikov said that "came down on us crisis is not economic crisis - a crisis of souls." He himself had always ached for the soul of all that is a national asset of the country. This was a truly Russian soul - a broad, irreconcilable and vulnerable.
Some regions Sawa Yamshchikov treated very carefully. Podmoskovnie estate, Vladimir and Suzdal, Russian North. Pskov and Pushkinogore. He died in Pskov, and was buried on their own in the churchyard, the ancient fortress of Pskov Voronich, which is exactly halfway between St Michael in Trigorskoye, near the grave of the legendary director of the Pushkin Reserve S. Geychenko.
All-Russia Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture launched an initiative called the prize "Heritage Keepers" name Sava Yamshchikova a ceremony awarding the winners of 2010 in Pskov.
Sawa Yamshchikov known as the organizer and the organizer of exhibitions, which became an integral part of national culture. This unique exhibition discoveries restorers, collections from private collections - from icons to the best examples of avant-garde art. No wonder the owners of collections elected him chairman of the club of collectors of the Soviet Culture Fund. Sawa driver was the organizer of many rare exhibits.
And today, friends Sawa, continuing his work, opened no less amazing exhibition - an exhibition of memory, showing the milestones of his career. The exhibition consists of rare photographs from the family archive, the archive of his friends and associates, including photos Yamshchikova Lev Gumilev, Dmitry Likhachev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vasily Belov, Marcello Mastroianni, Raisa Gorbachev, Bishop Pitirim, Archimandrite Alipy and many other well-known civic and political leaders and creative people. The exhibition also - rare posters from exhibitions, which organized Sawa Yamshchikov: Renaissance City "," Restoration of the ancient architecture in the USSR, numerous exhibitions of works of Efim Chestnyakova. Awards, letters of appreciation, certificates Sawa Yamshchikova different years.
A parallel exhibition in Moscow, in the favorite Yamshchikova Pushkin Hills, to October 2009 an exhibition called "Museum of friends, where collected pictures of Russian artists who were friends Yamshchikova.
Exhibition in Moscow, is open daily, except Sundays. From 11.00 to 15.00. Admission is free.