Actual Art ... by Marat Gelman

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[QUOTE="Art-lover;298085"]Alexander Sazikov — non-public personality. His name is associated with the fuel market, but it is known as a major collector of art, modern and not only (in his collection — photos by Alexander Rodchenko@
[QUOTE][FONT="Georgia"]One of the largest collectors of Russian avant-garde, philanthropist Alexander Sazikov (No. 165 in the list of the richest businessmen of Russia — 2012, the state $600 million) over a lifetime did not give a single interview. The guards many years vigilantly protect it from the camera. Photo Smuzikov have not even left their former partners. Its success forty-year-old businessman is obliged to one large deal in 2008 for $891 million sold the gas station network of TNK-BP. Forbes figured out some details of this transaction and biography Smuzikov.

Prom photos 10th class English special school №56, made in 1989, Sasha Smuzikov not be found: he did not exemplary behavior and often missed classes. In 1989 he was sentenced to three years for robbery — foiled hat with a passer-by. This conviction was for possession of weapons.
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He owns a large collection of Russian art which includes works by Kazimir Malevich and his circle. In 2012 I bought a collection of Russian avant-garde books (over 200 copies). The most valuable — "Suprematism of Malevich — includes 34 figures. The book is published in Vitebsk in 1920, found only 11 surviving copies.
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"Money likes silence. Any public business is not planning to do it Sazikov answered the question of where he has spent the received money from the deal. Part of the funds he invested in real estate. Lot spends on the collection, which is based on the work of Kazimir Malevich and other avant-garde artists of his circle. The participants of the art market estimate it as at least $100 million Sazikov says that such money would never sell my collection nikogda@
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