Valery Alexandrovich Dudakov, one of the oldest and most authoritative collectors in Russia, who stood at the origins of the Collectors' Club of the Soviet Culture Foundation, created in 1987 on the basis of the country's largest private collections, show

Dudakov is showing paintings by precisely those artists with whom his collection began in 1970: Vladimir Nemukhin, Nikolai Vechtomov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Oskar Rabin, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Yuli Sooster. Valery Alexandrovich knew the generation of the nonconformist "men of the sixties" personally and was friends with a great many of them.

The Art-Moscow fair of contemporary, classical and jewellery art is being held at Gostiny Dvor from 17 to 21 April. This is already the 21st season of the fair.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s