The last month of a year is the time of summing-up. The expiring year was extremely rich on important events and sensations in the world of art and antiques: XXI International Antique Fair in Moscow, subject sales held by major auction houses, numerous art projects and exhibitions of the national museums and galleries. Interest towards the Russian art is constantly rising. For instance, the recent "Russian week" in London has set a number of new price records.
The much-publicized theft of unique showpieces from the State Hermitage has made antique dealers, museum staff and public officials think about the burning problems of the national antiquarian market. A startling statement concerning art expertise has been made by Anatoliy Vilkov, Deputy Director of the Federal Culture and Mass Media Supervision Agency. We remind our readers that now the specialists of the state museums have no right to conduct authenticity expertise of art pieces belonging to private collectors.
However, we believe that the incoming year will settle down all contradictions and bring many encouraging news and events.
We wish our readers a Happy New Year! Let your dear ones be happy and prosperous in the New Year 2007!
Maxim Chernykh,
General Director of the CJSC "Russian Antique",
Editor-in-Chief of "/" magazine
Russian week in London [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] The long-awaited “Russian week” at major British auctions Sotheby’s, Christie’s, MacDougall’s and Bonhams took place in London through November 27–30.
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Craft and craftsmanship: visit to an antiquarian [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] Vladimir Pavlovich Golovkov is the owner of a very special antique shop in St.Petersburg. His shop location is in one of the St.Petersburg old quarters.
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“Enthusiastic collector – it’s not about me” [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] Restaurateur Roman Rozhnikovsky successfully manages to combine personal and professional interests: his passion for antiques proved to be useful in his business activities. In his restaurants
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British crown jewels [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] this year’s biggest successes, one can name the sale of the deceased Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret of York, the Countess of Snowdown jewels collection at the sale at Christie’s on 13–14 Jun...
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Important chapter in the history of soviet avant-garde [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] Though Vladimir Grishchenko (1932–2002) belongs to the pleiad of the most interesting and original masters of modern Russian avant-garde, for some reasons his works are little known beyond the circle ...
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Best wishes world-wide… [ Will be available online as of 2007, January 01] A small post-card (12.0 È 7.0 cm) was sold for impressive 16,000 dollars at auction in Great Britain recently. It was lithographically printed in 1843 and painted by English artist John Horsley
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Monetary reform of Peter I [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] First attempts to modify the Russian financial system after European standards were made during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov.
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A supplier of “great names” [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] After the WW II, the hunt started not only for the masterpieces of art stolen from museums and private collections, but also for persons that had assisted Nazi “collectors” as middlemen.
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George XII: the last tsar's regalias [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] The history of regalia presented to George XII by Paul I is forgotten nowadays like the name of the last lord of Georgia, who was blamed by his family and people in general.
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Music Of The Tsars [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] Nowadays, we are the eyewitnesses of an amazing phenomenon of collecting, a source of creativeness: our contemporaries have managed to recreate an important part of world music culture
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A mystery in the Russian “new epoch” painting [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] Ivan Nikitin and Andrey Matveev are the first painters of the Russian New Epoch (started with the Tzar Peter’s reforms). In 2004, a painting on a classic plot was discovered in one of the St.Petersbur...
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Icon created by the court engraver [ Will be available online as of 2007, February 01] The icon depicting St. Nicolas with the presentation inscription of Nikolai Outkine was discovered in the collection of the Novo-Valaamsky monastery (Finland).
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