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My life began on 24 September 1958 at 60 Liteiny Prospekt, where I was brought from the nearby maternity hospital. I was born at the Snegirevskaya Hospital on Mayakovsky Street, only a block away from our house on Liteiny, where I have now lived for forty years. Born in the very heart of St Petersburg, I have always felt a close bond to the city. The architectural forms of Nevsky Prospekt, Zodche...
I was greatly impressed by the first work that I saw by Sergei Sergeyev. This was his portrait Vika (1977), a small oil painting on canvas). Its powerful mastery and close kinship to the old masters ...
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Picasso My first encounter with modern art came in the third grade, in 1971, when my eyes fell on an issue of the UNESCO Courier that was entirely devoted to a sociological survey and called “Public ...
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