What in Odessa?

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«ARTRANZIT» - joint exhibition project of the Ministries of Culture of Russia and Ukraine , the Russian Academy of Arts, Odessa State Regional Administration , the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the humanitarian project "Odessa breeze" with the support of the governor of Odessa region EL Matviychuk .

A whole month in the exhibition halls of the first floor and second floor halls Italian Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art will exhibit more than 100 works by leading artists of Moscow. Including works by Zurab Tsereteli , President of Arts, Academician Dmitry Belyukin , Eugene Romashko Konstantin Khudyakov and successful creative duo Ivan Kolesnikov & Sergey Denisov

By the opening of the exhibition was issued a joint catalog of Moscow and Odessa artists .

Creative contacts in Moscow and Odessa has always manifested as an active interaction between the two artistic impulses , during which we found ourselves need each other. It is safe to say the roll-call features art schools . In comparison with the Petersburg school moskvichb in the nineteenth century, more and more definitely gravitated to open an expressive color. Need I remind you that this color was always the most expressive element of the Odessa school of painting. This is an example of internal , may be unknowingly roll call. And in the time of the birth and the affirmation of the Odessa non- conformity, as perhaps the most significant artistic phenomenon in the history of the Odessa Art School of Soviet times , it provided Muscovites Odessa rebels an opportunity to show the exhibition , which in Odessa has no place . When we air for artists " thickened ", they truly found it in Moscow.
The exhibition runs until December 4.

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Staff of the International Centre of the History and Sociology of the Second World War and its aftermath HSE prepared book - « Odessa: life under occupation . 1941-1944 » /comp. , Br. Ed. and author of introd . Article OV Budnitskii ; podgot . texts annotated. TL Voronina , annotated. KR Galeeva . - Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN ) , 2013 .

According to Alexander Werth , author of the famous " Russian War 1941-1945 ", many people from Odessa , " felt like a fish in water in the seemingly carefree Odessa, it was under Antonescu - with its restaurants and the " black market " , its brothels and gambling dens , clubs for playing bingo, cabaret and all other attributes of " European culture " , including opera, ballet and symphony orchestras . " During the occupation became Odessites time harshest terror . And at the same time it was a period of free enterprise , a kind neonepa differs sharply Odessa from other occupied cities of the USSR .

The book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation learned from Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University (New York ) and the emigre publications .