Natalya Strizhkova Author

Natalya Strizhkova was born and educated in Russia. Based in Moscow, she graduated from the Faculty of History at the Humanitarian University before completing her studies as a postgraduate at The Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. With a degree in Cultural History, her area of expertise is history and theory of culture, Soviet culture, culture under totalitarian rule and archival documents. She has worked in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), where she researched primary archival sources for her publications and scientific projects. She has written or curated more than 20 books in Russian. In 2015 she won the Grand Prix at the annual Book of the Year for her Olga Bergholz. Blockade Diary. 1940-1945. Andrei Sarabyanov is a leading art historian and expert on Russian avant-garde of the 20th century. He is the head of the Avant-Garde Centre at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, professor at the HSE Art and Design School in Moscow, a member of the State Tretyakov Gallery Art Council and of the Supervisory Board of the State Research Museum of Architecture. He is author of the seminal monograph The Unknown Russian Avant-Garde in Museums and Private Collections (1992), and of the studies on Ivan Kliun, Vladimir Baranov- Rossine and Lev Bruni. Importantly, in 2013-2014, together with Vassily Rakitin, he co-authored his fundamental three-volume Encyclopedia of Russian Avant-garde (to be published in English in 2022).