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   Drozd Vladimir

Vladimir Drozd was born in Perm. While at Perm State Gorky University, a boisterous and broad-minded person as he was, he combined studying with working in the local radio and television stations. Having abandoned the career of a lecturer at the department of economics, he tried himself as a builder, vendor, loader and counsel at a students' dormitory. He ended up as a decorous museum worker (the State Russian Museum, department of sculpture, senior research worker) and stayed this way over the long twelve years. He graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. For three years, each fortnight, he duly held routine exhibitions at the Boreas Galleery of contemporary art (each occasion demands special attention and needs seeing to). Once, spurred by the charming Olga Thomson, his then counterpart, he ventured to put „curator“ after his name. He succeeded in certain endeavours intra muros of the State Russian Museum (publications, reports, contribution to the organizing of exhibitions).

«At one moment I realized that a critic is a trade nobody needed but those engaged in, that artists are XXX (censored). I quit the State Russian Museum, the Boreas Gallery, magazines. I resumed journalistic hackwork, and I am still doing it. BUT!!! Artists are no XXX!!! On the contrary, they are rare, talented people, without whom and near whom it is equally impossible to live. As to art critics — they are nice and sometimes useful characters in this game…\\\\"