The Museum of 20^th–21^st Century Art of St Petersburg (MASP) presents 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 is on iconic works by 1960s-1990s painters, among which stand out the sixties artists Nikolai Andronov, Pavel Nikonov, Viktor Popkov, Andrei Vasnetsov, Viktor Ivanov, 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 are also shown, both by outstanding Soviet painters – Leonard Turzhansky, Evgeny Yakub, Georgy Rublev, Alexander Savinov, 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 deserves special attention, it includes works by such famous sculptors as Vera Mukhina, Ernst Neizvestny and Levon Lazarev.