The Museum of 20^th–21^st Century Art of St Petersburg (MASP) presented a large-scale exhibition project demonstrating for the first time to a wide audience the unique collection of Nikolai Botka, a well-known collector, patron of art, Chairman of the MASP Friends’ Club board. The collection includes more than 1200 works of Russian art of the past and present centuries – paintings, graphics and sculpture. However, the focus of the exposition was on iconic works by 1960s-1990s painters, among which stand out the sixties artists Nikolai Andronov, Pavel Nikonov, Viktor Popkov, Andrei Vasnetsov, Valery Vatenin, Viktor Teterin and Petr Ossovsky, as well as the seventies women – Olga Bulgakova, Natalia Nesterova and Tatiana Nazarenko.

The works from the 1920s and 1930s were also shown, both by outstanding Soviet painters – Leonard Turzhansky, Georgy Rublev, Vera Zenkovich, Tatiana Mavrina, Alexander Rusakov, and by the émigré artists – Alexander Benois, Constantine Kouznetsoff, Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).

The sculptural part of the exhibition deserved special attention, it included works by such famous sculptors as Ernst Neizvestny and Levon Lazarev.