Alisa Ioffe's exhibition “Taman Diary” at Golubitskoye Estate on the Taman Peninsula, 26 August to 30 November

Listings for subscribers in Krasnodar Krai, neighbouring regions, and anyone planning to spend the warm autumn days well in the South of Russia. The Golubitskoe Art Foundation, on the grounds of the Golubitskoe Estate winery on the Taman Peninsula, invites you to Alisa Ioffe's exhibition "Taman Diary". Alisa lived on Taman for a month and has captured on her canvases echoes of the Mithridatic Wars and glimpses of the open-air museum of military hardware, features of the local archaeological digs and, of course, the vineyards, the sea and the roads. A must-see from 26 August to 30 November. I hope to return to you a little later with a detailed report on my visit to the stanitsa and to Alisa's exhibition.

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