Episodes: Memories. Meetings. Articles about art. Perts V.

The book original in composition is memories of childhood and youth, about meetings with people who left a vivid mark in the history of domestic culture, publications from the author’s archive, as well as curatorial notes and selected articles. Vladimir Perts (b. 1946), art historian, critic, editor and publisher, graduated in 1969 the History Faculty of Leningrad University. He worked at the State Museum of the History of Leningrad, the city excursion bureau. From the end of 1989 to the beginning of the 2000s, the editor of the Modern Art Department of the magazine "Art of Leningrad", editor-in-chief of the magazine "World of Design". The author of numerous articles on the history of Russian art of the 20th century and modern art, the author of the books “George Moseev” (2003) and “Anatoly Belkin” (2019), as well as the Books of Prose “My Animals and Other Stories” (2019). He conducted active activity as an independent curator. Since the mid-1990s, Vladimir Perts is a leading researcher at the State Russian Museum. With his participation, a new exposition of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum (Marble Palace) was created, numerous temporary exhibitions, as well as exhibitions developed by the department of the latest movements, were opened. “The facade of the complex memoir building of Vladimir Pepper is opening to the reader precisely from the part of private literature, from the side of everyday life, interesting to everyone who wants to understand how they lived in Leningrad and the Baltic states (Riga) in the second half of the 20th century, especially during the thaw years, when the author studied and He became a professional in a wide profile. The prose of V. Pepper reveals the living world of relations and things from which literary facts are formed. Therefore, the book will undoubtedly be interesting to many lovers of reading memories, and specialists in the field of literature, theater and fine art of the 20th century. ” Ekaterina Andreeva, art historian, Doctor of Philosophy.