Until January 30, 2018, opened the exhibition "Archive Hardzhieva. Unique materials about the Russian avant-garde works from private collections", held in conjunction with the IN ARTIBUS Inna Bazhenova and RGALI

This exhibition — event truly unique. Most of the materials show for the first time.

Nikolai Ivanovich Hargave (1903-1996), his untold treasures and of course the misery that they brought upon its owner, heard most of the art lovers of the generation over forty. But before they almost no one saw. During the life of the owner in two "palaces" Nicholas Hardzhieva on Kropotkin had access only to a very narrow circle of his. However, even these favorites Gergiev showed they saved documents of the era, at least in such volume and variety.

Khardzhiev was a literary critic, writer, publicist, literary editor, poet, biographer, a man of encyclopedic knowledge, the compiler never finished the first version of the "history of the Russian avant-garde". The son of an Armenian and a Greek, he grew up in the Kherson region after school he worked as a proofreader in the Odessa newspaper, then in the same studies at the law faculty of the local University. In the late 1920-х Gergiev went to Petrograd, later moved to Moscow. In the Northern capital 23-летний literary worker met with twisted wire, with oberiuts Kharms, Vvedensky, and there he met with Malevich, which is to the end of life valued, perhaps above all. Gergiev did for a living