Art and Entertainment in Russian Samovar

Mikhail Simoman, a wonderful young violinist from Moscow, came in for a brief visit and played famous Broadway melodies at the restaurant. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Vladimir Radunsky, a well known artist and illustrator of children’s books also came to celebrate the publication of their mutual undertaking, a children’s book called “Because”, which they presented earlier that evening at the 92nd Street Y.

The renowned sculptor, Ernst Neizvestny brought some friends from Moscow to introduce them to the Russian Samovar, while the artist Shimon Okshteyn came over to tell of the great success of his one-man shows in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Mikhail Arol, a well-known art collector, returned from a series of art auctions in London where a work of Oleg Tselkov, a Russian painter who lives in Paris, was sold for $400,000. The prices of works by Russian painters of the 60’s keep growing. Pieces that were $30-40,000 a year ago have grown ten-fold