The result of Russian Christie's auction totaled nearly 12 million pounds. Cloth "tail" brush Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's gone from the auction for 1,8 million - second highest price per week Russian Trading in London

Revenues Summer Russian Trading Christie's, which took place on June 8 in London , in amounted to 11,935,750 pounds, the number of sold units in monetary terms amounted to 90 percent. Of the 273 lots offered for auction, the new owners switched 207 (76 percent).

during the auction was set three new world records and three works were sold more $ 1 million. Compared with similar indicators in June 2009, today there is an entirely different situation in a market where interest and demand for the unique lots were the result of a crowded auction room and the ongoing struggle for works of art throughout the day. Section of Russian painting was sold by 72 per cent (92 per cent in money terms). Compared with December 2009 the number of works sold for more than 100 thousand pounds, has tripled.

Alex Tiesenhausen, head of the International Department of Russian Art Christie's, said: "Today's auction yielded a strong signal vendors, and showed that market demand is very high, and also demonstrated sustained desire of buyers to acquire works of art. As a result, seven of the ten top lots went for amounts exceeding the initial estimeyty, and a total of 26 works were sold more than appraised value. European royal collection of Faberge objects dispersed almost completely, and generally sold by auction for the sum of 746,000 pounds, the top lot was bonbonniere egg-shaped jade ».

• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Vasya
  canvas. 38 x 53
  Christie's. 08/06/2010. Lot number 41
  estimate: 250-350 thousand pounds
  Result: 1,833,250 pounds

Top-lot auction was painting Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin «Vasya" which been sold for the sum of 1.83 million pounds, with Estima 250-350 thousand . Portrait of a Russian boy, who was more than 80 years in a private collection and does not appear in public since 1932, has attracted the most interest during the pre-auction display, and as a result of the fierce "bidding war" gone into the collection to an unknown buyer to bid by telephone.

• figure of a turkey. Workshop Henrik Vigstrema
  Christie's. 08/06/2010. Lot № 177
  estimate: 60-80 thousand pounds
  Result: 193 250 pounds
• desk lamp, silver and bovenita form a dragon. 1899-1904
  Workshop Julius Rappoport
  Christie's. 08/06/2010. Lot № 188
  estimate: 80-120 thousand pounds
  Result: 193 250 pounds

Top-lots in a section of arts and crafts were two unique Faberge - turkey figurine (Lot number 177) and a table lamp from bovenita (lot number 188), each went under the hammer for the sum of 193.25 thousand pounds. Section Faberge was sold for 95 percent of the items, and 97 per cent of the cash index, which once again demonstrated the international demand for rare items in good condition authorship of the most famous jeweler in the history of Russia.

In the auction was attended by buyers from Europe (70 percent), America (22), Asia (3) and the Middle East (4).

Other top lots of trades:

• «Still life with roses and apples" brush Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), made in one of the brightest creative periods of the artist, was sold for 937.25 thousand pounds (estimate 100-150 thousand) and took third place in the list of the most expensive works that has ever sold at auction.
• Cloth "Animal Farm on the banks of the river» Michael (1832-1902) - an impressive and detailed traced Ukrainian landscape - gone from the auction for 769.25 thousand pounds in the initial evaluation in the 700-900 thousand.
• European royal collection of 45 objects by Faberge was sold a total of 746,000 pounds, the top lot was her jade egg, decorated with precious stones, having left his hammer for thousands of pounds 115.25.
• Rare work of Princess Maria Tenisheva - two bronze and enameled caskets, one of which, in the form of fish was sold for 217.25 thousand pounds, and another, in the form of a dove, went under the hammer for 157.25 thousand.

In addition, the section of Russian decorative and applied art, five works went for more than 100,000 pounds (each).

Top 10 auction Christie ' s «Russian art in London on 8 June :

№ lot	Description	Estimeyt, thousand pounds	Price, pounds	Buyer
41	Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Vasya world record for the artist's work	250-350	1,833,250	anonymous buyer
28	Konstantin Korovin Still life with roses and apples. 1917	100 - 150	937 250	anonymous buyer
27	Mikhail Klodt Animal Farm on the river bank. 1858	700-900	769 250	art dealer from Europe
40	Grigoriev Portrait of a man. 1920	400-600	657 250	anonymous buyer
32	Zinaida Serebryakova Reclining Nude. 1930	400-600	577 250	private buyer from Europe
20	MICHAEL Zichy Celebrating silver jubilee wedding of Emperor Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna. 1866 world record for the artist's work	400-600	475 250	anonymous buyer
31	Konstantin Korovin woman with a guitar. 1917	80-120	385 250	private buyer from Europe
35	NICHOLAS Kalmakov Aphrodite with Eros and Anteros world record for the artist's work	200-300	313 250	art dealer from Europe
36	Nicholas Roerich Grand Canyon. 1921	80-120	277 250	private buyer from Europe
26	ALEXEI KHARLAMOV Portrait of Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, Prince of San Donato. 1883	80-120	217 250	art dealer from Europe

Source: press release Christie's