Memories. The territory of love. Antonova I.A.

Irina Antonova - the legendary director of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, where she worked seventy -five years. The woman who knew the whole world. Those painting exhibitions that she held in the museum became the bright cultural phenomena of Moscow. Presidents, politicians and ambassadors of different countries were friends with her, considering it a great honor for their states to represent museum collections in the Moscow Pushkin Museum. In her book, she talks about childhood, youth, military years, meetings with famous people (and among them Mark Shagal, Ilya Ehrenburg, wife A. Matisse Lidia Delektorskaya) and about serving great art.

The book organically complement the book Photos that reflect not only the events of the author’s life, but also the cultural history of the country over the past sixty years.

The publication includes stories about the key exhibitions of the Mlime. A.S. Pushkin - “Dior: under the sign of art” and “Pallas and centaur”.