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Some resources: Andrei Kovalev's recent book on Moscow Actionism of the 90s has sold out, but his flickr stream has loads of documentary photos (flickr). David Riff's blog contains occasional essays on events in Moscow, most recently Viktor Alimpiev's show at the Ekaterina Foundation (Moscow Diary). ARTinvestment.RU is a new Russian-language site analysing the market (artinvestment.ru)

A review of Solomon Volkov's The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (Washington Post).

A new book on the Moscow Yiddish Theatre, from Yale (Daily Press).

Three books by Rodchenko from the thirties (10 Years Of The Uzbek SSR [1934], The First Cavalry Army [1935] and Moscow Is Reconstructed) each fetched between 30 and 40 thousand US dollars at Christies NY yesterday (Gazeta.ru, in Russian). UPDATE: as far as I can tell, a full set of The Industry of Socialism fetched $79,000 (RIA Novosti, in Russian).

Lyudmila Saraskina has written the first complete biography of Solzhenitsyn (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, in Russian).

Book review: Nikolai Morozov thinks that Alexandre Jevakhoff's new book, Les Russes Blancs (The White Russians, in French), the story of the Russian emigration after the 1917 revolution, is as good as Gibbon's Decline and Fall or Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (Rossiisskaya Gazeta, in Russian). That's quite some praise.

Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting: an extended essay by Mikhail Romadin (Creative Review). It's from a new book of essays.

In the Bukberi shop, Biographies of Historic Figures (thanks NS).

A Russian art history classic: French Painters, Russian Collectors.

The well-known satirist "Mr Parker" (Maxim Kononenko) has published a parody of Vladimir Sorokin's Den' Oprichnika (Day of the Oprichnik) entitled Den' Otlichnika (Day of the Honours Student) (Gazeta.ru, in Russian). Apparently Kononenko's novel satirises liberal values.