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Table of contents............................................................................2
On the occasion of publishing this book on the Internet ......................3
Foreword ....................................................................................27
Introduction.................................................................................29
First meeting................................................................................35
The first painting...........................................................................39
Turning point................................................................................45
The search for good paintings.........................................................50
Prelude for the introduction of paintings...........................................57
Russian art museums.....................................................................82
Features of contemporary paintings...............................................101
Artists leaping forward..................................................................122
Artistic level of contemporary paintings...........................................137
Epilogue.....................................................................................156
Afterword...................................................................................166
“On Russian paintings”(Lecture manuscript)....................................169
Main references...........................................................................199
List of illustrations/Russian Artists’ Union ranking.............................201
Original foreword in Russian..........................................................203