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Adrian Anikushin. Mikhail Anikushin's legacy is being destroyed in a cold workshop

Currently actively touring the country as a DJ.

Sasha Stein

Artist, sculptor. He took part in the life of the artistic squat “Svechnoy”.

He worked at the Tunnel club and designed many clubs and premises.

Currently engaged in graphics and creating objects.

Victor Mazni and Olesya Turkina

Participants in many Dance Floor events.

Currently, Victor is a professor of psychoanalysis and director of the Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams; Olesya - Researcher department of the latest trends of the Russian Museum, curator and critic of art projects.

Juris Lesnik

Artist, director, sculptor, first VJ. Creator of Pirate Television.

Currently lives in Paris, sculpting.

“Rivermen” Roman Gruzov, Maxim Polishchuk, Timofey Abramov, Linas Petrauskas, Denis Alexandrov, Stas Makarov, Egor Ostrov

A famous art group that embodies all the features of modern club performance. The “Stubnitz” project was organized by the creators of the “Port” cyber club, the authors of many interior designs. Creators of fiery performances and unique mechanical objects. Participants in many art projects.

Currently, Roman Gruzov travels around India and writes in periodicals, Timofey Abramov is engaged in design in Moscow, Maxim Polishchuk works in Moscow, Egor Ostrov is engaged in painting and art projects, Denis Alexandrov lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Adrian Anikushin

Participant in most Dance Floor parties.

Currently heads a company related to new technologies.

Marina Smirnova

Together with Viktor Tsoi she starred in the film “Needle”. She took part in the publication of the magazine “What to do?”. She was a presenter on Radio Baltika. Lives in St. Petersburg.

Victor Frolov and Alisa Leonova

Masculinity and beauty. This bright couple was the decoration of the closed “Dance Floor” parties in the first club on Fontanka. Subsequently, already being heroes of all club events, they tried themselves in various fields and artistic directions.

Alice died in 2001, Victor retired to a monastery and became a monk.

Gabriel Vorobyov, Yana Adelson

Participants of "Dance Floor" from the first day of its foundation. Visitors to all dance events. We acted in films and organized fashion shows.

Gabriel played in the Tunnel club as the first transmusic DJ, and participated in projects of the Chillout Planet company. Resident of the Moscow club "Aerodance". Traveled extensively throughout India.

Currently playing at international trans festivals and raising three sons.

Nikita Marshunok

Founder, ideological inspirer and president of the most daring club project “Kazantip”. Nikita's phenomenal organizational skills allowed him to turn a low-budget open-air rave in Crimea into the largest club festival in just a few years.

Currently, the Kazantip project annually attracts thousands of guests.

Marat Murakaev

Artist, participant in all the first dance projects. Throughout 1992, after the closure of the Dance Floor club, events took place in his workshop on Fontanka. dance parties for members of the old club. Attended all club parties until 2004.

Currently he has returned to painting.

Danya Afonin (DiCaprio)

He took an active part in the life of the Tunnel club, and subsequently the Mama club. Worked on the Pyramid project.

Currently he is not associated with clubs, he lives in St. Petersburg and is engaged in business.

Vlad Mamyshev (Monroe)

Artist, actor, performance artist. In the early 1990s, the hero of parties on Fontanka, 145 and the host of Pirate Television. The main character of many actions.

Currently, a popular Moscow art personality shocks the public with her images, creates works of art and acts in films.

Evgeniy Grove

Graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in vocal class. He became a DJ in a club on Fontanka, 145. He was a resident of the Tunnel club, playing at all the parties and major raves of the early nineties.

Currently lives and works in Moscow, writes music, plays as a DJ.

Michael Tumbler (Uncut)

Lightmaster of the Tunnel club, freak, participant in many dance projects.

Currently a model, performance artist.

Gosha Kopylov, Oleg Ishutov

The first laser workers at parties in Leningrad from 1991 to 1995.

Currently, Ishutov is engaged in laser shows in Moscow, Kopylov lives in St. Petersburg and is not associated with clubs.

Igor Tarnavsky

The first parties at the Planetarium took place using the equipment he owned.

Currently the largest supplier of equipment for concerts and raves.

Edik Muradyan

Creator of the Decadence club. Organized many parties, fashion shows and ceremonies. Promoter, owner of a number of restaurants.

Currently a member of the Happiness Corporation.

Kostya Lavski

Organizer of the first acid-jazz club “Saturn”. Resident of almost all successful clubs in St. Petersburg. He played at the largest promotions: “Kazantip”, “Arsenal”, “East Strike”. He has released several cassettes and broadcasts regularly on the radio.

Currently one of the most sought-after DJs, actively touring.

Igor Vdovin

Composer, participant in a number of musical projects and groups, author of many famous works. Released many albums.

Currently lives in St. Petersburg, writes music.

“Two Planes”: Vadim Pokrovsky, Anton Belyankin, Mikhail Sindalovsky, Alexey Lazovsky, Denis Medvedev

The members of this legendary group are widely known in our country and far beyond its borders.

Ideological inspirers of the Griboedov Fashion Club, creators of the video magazine "Kamyshi" and the almanac "Pampers", authors large quantity hits and public favorites.

Andrey Khlobystin

Artist, writer, director of the art archive at Pushkinskaya, 10. Publisher of the magazines “Artistic Will” and “Susanin”, author of numerous works on contemporary art.

Currently the father of five children.

Alla Mitrofanova

She organized and led the cyberfeminist movement in Russia and opened the first “Cyber Feminist Club”. Author of many articles and organizer of conferences.

Svetlana Ostrov

Participant in all Dance Floor events, coordinator of the Soros Foundation and the Pro-Arte Institute.

Currently editor of the Afisha publishing house.

Igor Shikunov (Bystry)

Permanent photographer of “Dance Floor” and participant in all its projects.

Currently he works at the Laser-Master company and is engaged in photography.

Olga Tobreluts

Artist, director. An active participant in many dance events in the early 1990s in Leningrad.

Currently a well-known artist, he lives and works in St. Petersburg, and is involved in international art projects.

Andrey Khaas

One of the founders of the first unofficial club “Fontanka, 145”. He took part in organizing the first raves in the early 1990s. Together with O. Nazarov and D. Oding, he opened the first techno club “Tunnel”. Developed the design of the Pyramid club. He was the ideological inspirer and creator of the Happiness Corporation. Co-owner of the "Mama" club.

Currently engaged in art projects.

December 24, 2007 10:00

Investigation into the theft of the creative heritage of artist Mikhail Anikushin in Once again suspended. Law enforcement they are in no hurry to intervene in a scandalous situation, but having intervened, they work as if in a slow motion movie, as if all their strength was taken away by the dispersal of the Marches of Dissent.

Workshop without a master

There is hardly a person in St. Petersburg who has never encountered the work of sculptor Mikhail Anikushin. The monument to Alexander Pushkin on Arts Square has long been business card city, as well as the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad.
Anikushin died in 1997, and in 2004 the city government decided to perpetuate the memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, to create a memorial museum-workshop under the auspices of the City Museum of Urban Sculpture in the sculptor's workshop in Vyazemsky Lane.
However, while the authorities were deciding how to open a museum of the sculptor in Anikushin’s workshop, his grandson Adrian and his wife lived peacefully here. And he not only lived, but, according to his mother and aunt Vera and Nina Anikushin (Mikhail’s daughters), actively plundered the creative heritage of his great grandfather, without having any legal relationship to him, the inheritance.
In 1997, shortly before his death, Mikhail Anikushin drew up a notarized will, according to which he divided his property, including copyrights, into three parts: his wife Maria Litovchenko (also a famous sculptor) and two daughters - Vera and Nina. Litovchenko outlived her husband by only a few years. After her death in 2003, her share of the inheritance went equally to her daughters. There was no mention of a grandson in the wills. However, Adrian himself considered himself to have the right to arbitrarily dispose of his grandfather’s things and works, which were stored in the workshop on Vyazemsky Lane, where he lived with his wife Sofia Risova for several years. During this time, Adrian and his friends, fortunately he practically did not allow his mother and aunt into the workshop, allegedly managed to pretty much thin out the creative legacy of Mikhail Anikushin. According to preliminary data, a considerable part of the items were taken out of the workshop, others were transferred for sale to antique shops and galleries in St. Petersburg and Moscow, or ended up in the hands of private collectors. Many plasticine models left after Anikushin’s death were used to create plaster castings, which Adrian and his friends, according to Nina Anikushina, also tried to implement, signing either his grandfather’s name or his own. The things and works of the late Maria Litovchenko also disappeared from the workshop.

Grandson to grandfather

On February 15, 2007, Anikushin’s daughters filed a statement with the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs, demanding that a criminal case be opened against Adrian Anikushin and the rest of the perpetrators of the theft of the late sculptor’s heritage. At first, the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs refused to initiate a criminal case, saying that there was no evidence of a crime. Then, already in April, after persistent correspondence between Anikushin’s daughters and various authorities, the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs still agreed that a criminal case on this story should be opened. True, only after the appropriate instructions from the district prosecutor's office. And the police classified Adrian’s actions not as theft, but simply as arbitrariness. Under this article, liability is lower and the statute of limitations for the crime is shorter. It is quite difficult to even approximately estimate the value of the stolen property, because among the missing items there are not only antiques, but also works by an outstanding sculptor, the price of which is millions of rubles.
Many of the remaining items were seriously damaged, such as a sculptural portrait of aircraft designer Yakovlev, which was covered over with rough strokes of plaster and signed as the author by Adrian Anikushin. Or more than a dozen sketches of figures for the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad, which were thrown haphazardly into a wooden box, as a result of which it became impossible even to restore them.
Investigators in the case changed, papers were written, however, according to Nina Anikushina, there was no way to search for property taken from the workshop real steps was not attempted. Even when Vera and Nina Anikushin independently established the location of a number of things and reported this to the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs, they did not even try to take any measures to ensure that these items were returned to their rightful owners.
As before, in the “New Galleries” of the Central House of Artists in Moscow there is a bronze portrait of Pushkin and two figures of Chekhov. In a St. Petersburg antique store on Bolshaya Mintnaya, a sculptural portrait of Olga Usova was exhibited (Usova is a distant descendant of Pushkin), which for some reason was signed as a portrait of Agrippina Vaganova. (This sculpture was sold to a graduate student at the Academy of Arts, a citizen of China.) The investigation did not look for the stolen items either in Adrian’s friends, or in the relatives of his wife or the relatives of Adrian’s father, Yuri Shestov, who now lives in the USA, where presumably they could be hidden.

How do you plant it? He's a monument!

In the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the complaints of the Anikushin sisters about the quality of the investigation in the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs were checked, and, as the head of the organizational department responded to them in September of this year Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moussov, “the facts of refusal to take effective measures to establish the location of artistic values have been confirmed.” Negligent investigators Panyutina and Pishinsky were even brought to disciplinary action.
However, the surge in investigative activity did not last long - in October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Adrian’s wife’s relatives on the Petrogradskaya side, where a considerable part of the things from Anikushin’s workshop were discovered. At this point, the fuse passed: on November 19, the next investigator of the Petrograd district police department (already the third in a row) decided to suspend the proceedings in the case, because, although the whereabouts of the main suspect Adrian Anikushin had been established, there was no possibility of bringing him to justice - according to some reports, he went to visit his father in the USA. At the same time, it is completely unclear how the absence of a suspect can prevent the police from searching for stolen property?
At this rate, when the authorities finally get around to opening the Anikushin Museum, there will simply be nothing to exhibit in it.

Alexander SAMOILOV

Adrian Anikushin

Participant in most Dance Floor parties.

Currently heads a company related to new technologies.
Marina Smirnova

Together with Viktor Tsoi she starred in the film “Needle”. She took part in the publication of the magazine “What to do?”. She was a presenter on Radio Baltika. Lives in St. Petersburg.
Victor Frolov and Alisa Leonova

Alice died in 2001, Victor retired to a monastery and became a monk.
Gabriel Vorobyov, Yana Adelson

Participants of "Dance Floor" from the first day of its foundation. Visitors to all dance events. We acted in films and organized fashion shows.

Currently playing at international trans festivals and raising three sons.
Nikita Marshunok

Currently, the Kazantip project annually attracts thousands of guests.
Marat Murakaev

Artist, participant in all the first dance projects. Throughout 1992, after the closure of the Dance Floor club, dance parties for members of the old club took place in his workshop on Fontanka. Attended all club parties until 2004.

Currently he has returned to painting.
Danya Afonin (DiCaprio)

He took an active part in the life of the Tunnel club, and subsequently the Mama club. Worked on the Pyramid project.

Currently he is not associated with clubs, he lives in St. Petersburg and is engaged in business.
Vlad Mamyshev (Monroe)

Artist, actor, performance artist. In the early 1990s, the hero of parties on Fontanka, 145 and the host of Pirate Television. The main character of many actions.

Currently a popular Moscow art personality, she shocks the public with her images, creates works of art and acts in films.
Evgeniy Grove

Currently lives and works in Moscow, writes music, plays as a DJ.
Michael Tumbler (Uncut)

Lightmaster of the Tunnel club, freak, participant in many dance projects.

Currently a model, performance artist.
Gosha Kopylov, Oleg Ishutov

The first laser workers at parties in Leningrad from 1991 to 1995.

Currently, Ishutov is engaged in laser shows in Moscow, Kopylov lives in St. Petersburg and is not associated with clubs.
Igor Tarnavsky

The first parties at the Planetarium took place using the equipment he owned.

Currently the largest supplier of equipment for concerts and raves.
Edik Muradyan

Creator of the Decadence club. Organized many parties, fashion shows and ceremonies. Promoter, owner of a number of restaurants.

Currently a member of the Happiness Corporation.
Kostya Lavski

Currently one of the most popular DJs, he is actively touring.
Igor Vdovin

Composer, participant in a number of musical projects and groups, author of many famous works. Released many albums.

Currently lives in St. Petersburg, writes music.
“Two Planes”: Vadim Pokrovsky, Anton Belyankin, Mikhail Sindalovsky, Alexey Lazovsky, Denis Medvedev

The members of this legendary group are widely known in our country and far beyond its borders.

The ideological inspirers of the Griboyedov Fashion Club, the creators of the video magazine "Kamyshi" and the anthology "Pampers", the authors of a large number of hits and favorites of the public.
Andrey Khlobystin

Artist, writer, director of the art archive at Pushkinskaya, 10. Publisher of the magazines “Artistic Will” and “Susanin”, author of numerous works on contemporary art.

Currently the father of five children.
Alla Mitrofanova

She organized and led the cyberfeminist movement in Russia and opened the first “Cyber Feminist Club”. Author of many articles and organizer of conferences.
Svetlana Ostrov

Participant in all Dance Floor events, coordinator of the Soros Foundation and the Pro-Arte Institute.

Currently editor of the Afisha publishing house.
Igor Shikunov (Bystry)

Permanent photographer of “Dance Floor” and participant in all its projects.

Currently he works at the Laser-Master company and is engaged in photography.
Olga Tobreluts

Artist, director. An active participant in many dance events in the early 1990s in Leningrad.

Currently a well-known artist, he lives and works in St. Petersburg, and is involved in international art projects.
Andrey Khaas

Currently engaged in art projects.

Law enforcement agencies are in no hurry to intervene in a scandalous situation, and having intervened, they work as if in a slow motion movie, as if all their strength was taken away by the dispersal of the Marches of Dissent. At this rate, when the authorities finally get around to opening the Anikushin Museum, there will simply be nothing to exhibit in it.

Workshop without a master

There is hardly a person in St. Petersburg who has never encountered the work of sculptor Mikhail Anikushin. The monument to Alexander Pushkin on Arts Square has long become the hallmark of the city, as well as the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad.

Anikushin died in 1997, and in 2004 the city government decided to perpetuate the memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, to create a memorial museum-workshop under the auspices of the City Museum of Urban Sculpture in the sculptor's workshop in Vyazemsky Lane.

However, while the authorities were deciding how to open a museum of the sculptor in Anikushin’s workshop, his grandson Adrian and his wife lived peacefully here. And he not only lived, but, according to his mother and aunt Vera and Nina Anikushin (Mikhail’s daughters), actively plundered the creative heritage of his great grandfather, without having any legal relationship to him, the inheritance.

In 1997, shortly before his death, Mikhail Anikushin drew up a notarized will, according to which he divided his property, including copyrights, into three parts: his wife Maria Litovchenko (also a famous sculptor) and two daughters - Vera and Nina. Litovchenko outlived her husband by only a few years. After her death in 2003, her share of the inheritance went equally to her daughters. There was no mention of a grandson in the wills. However, Adrian himself considered himself to have the right to arbitrarily dispose of his grandfather’s things and works, which were stored in the workshop on Vyazemsky Lane, where he lived with his wife Sofia Risova for several years. During this time, Adrian and his friends, fortunately he practically did not allow his mother and aunt into the workshop, allegedly managed to pretty much thin out the creative legacy of Mikhail Anikushin. According to preliminary data, a considerable part of the items were taken out of the workshop, others were transferred for sale to antique shops and galleries in St. Petersburg and Moscow, or ended up in the hands of private collectors. Many plasticine models left after Anikushin’s death were used to create plaster castings, which Adrian and his friends, according to Nina Anikushina, also tried to implement, signing either his grandfather’s name or his own. The things and works of the late Maria Litovchenko also disappeared from the workshop.

Grandson to grandfather

Many of the remaining items were seriously damaged, such as a sculptural portrait of aircraft designer Yakovlev, which was covered over with rough strokes of plaster and signed as the author by Adrian Anikushin. Or more than a dozen sketches of figures for the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad, which were thrown haphazardly into a wooden box, as a result of which it became impossible even to restore them.

Investigators in the case changed, papers were written, however, according to Nina Anikushina, no real steps were taken to search for the property taken from the workshop. Even when Vera and Nina Anikushin independently established the location of a number of things and reported this to the Petrogradsky District Department of Internal Affairs, they did not even try to take any measures to ensure that these items were returned to their rightful owners.

As before, in the “New Galleries” of the Central House of Artists in Moscow there is a bronze portrait of Pushkin and two figures of Chekhov. In a St. Petersburg antique store on Bolshaya Mintnaya, a sculptural portrait of Olga Usova was exhibited (Usova is a distant descendant of Pushkin), which for some reason was signed as a portrait of Agrippina Vaganova. (This sculpture was sold to a graduate student at the Academy of Arts, a citizen of China.) The investigation did not look for the stolen items either in Adrian’s friends, or in the relatives of his wife or the relatives of Adrian’s father, Yuri Shestov, who now lives in the USA, where presumably they could be hidden.

How do you plant it? He's a monument!

However, the surge in investigative activity did not last long - in October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Adrian’s wife’s relatives on the Petrogradskaya side, where a considerable part of the things from Anikushin’s workshop were discovered. At this point, the fuse passed: on November 19, the next investigator of the Petrograd district police department (already the third in a row) decided to suspend the proceedings in the case, because, although the whereabouts of the main suspect Adrian Anikushin had been established, there was no possibility of bringing him to justice - according to some reports, he went to visit his father in the USA. At the same time, it is completely unclear how the absence of a suspect can prevent the police from searching for stolen property?

The city was going to make a museum there, but it still isn't there. This sculptor was called the face of St. Petersburg. Even those to whom his last name means nothing probably know the monument to Pushkin on Arts Square or Lenin at the Moskovskaya metro station. In a word, the artist is iconic for St. Petersburg. And in order to perpetuate his memory, Governor Valentina Matvienko in March 2004 signed an order to create a museum in his workshop. But a year has passed, and there is still no museum. Komsomolskaya Pravda decided to find out why. The sculptures are guarded by the grandson A huge workshop with an area of 800 square meters Mikhail Konstantinovich received it during his lifetime. Even then he was offered to decorate it as an apartment. It's more profitable. You need to pay much less for light, heating and radio if the premises are considered residential. The sculptor initially resisted, then seemed to agree, but did not take any steps. He died in 1997, but did not solve the problem. The premises remained on the city's books, and the sculptor's heirs - daughters Vera and Nina - did not receive any rights to it. The building belongs to KUGI, and officially no one has the right to live there, but several years ago the sculptor’s grandson Adrian moved into the studio. Relatives do not often communicate with Adrian. But they know that he works as a web designer, and from friends they heard about his plans to open a computer company in the workshop. - Anikushin’s daughters came to the workshop itself about a year ago. Then it was not heated, only the light was on. And no wonder. The heating bill is $5 thousand. Nobody has that kind of money. When the sculptor’s museum will finally be in the studio, both his daughters Vera and Nina do not know. The authorities have not done anything for a long time. - A year ago, Nadezhda Kushchenkova was the chairman of the Culture Committee, she assured us that she would figure everything out. But then she resigned, and everything died down again. In fact, the Anikushin family is partly satisfied that Adrian lives in the workshop. It is unknown what will happen to the premises if the owner is not there. But at the same time, women are afraid that the workshop will very quickly turn into something else - a company, a warehouse or an apartment. And the most important thing is that their father’s works will disappear in an unknown direction. - Rumor has it that Adrian sells them via the Internet. However, no one has seen the site. It's very difficult to make a museum here We easily found Adrian Anikushin on the Internet. He is a web designer. Among the huge number of sites that he designed was a page for an art company, a real estate agency, but nothing resembling an online auction. Therefore, we went for clarification to Adrian himself, to the workshop at Vyazemsky Lane, 8. He greeted us kindly and apologized that it was cold in the room: “I work as a software engineer, there is only enough money to support my family and maintain minimal order in the workshop.” - Why don’t you move out of here? You wouldn't have to pay huge amounts of money for electricity. “If we leave here, in a day there will be nothing left of the workshop.” The glass will be broken, and my grandfather’s work will be stolen in no time. Recently a delegation from the Hermitage came to see Adrian. And their project interested him. - In the workshop, the humidity is 90%, and the temperature does not rise above 14 degrees. The museum should be drier and warmer. We agreed that we needed to build a glass mezzanine (it would be heated), where the works would be displayed and visitors would be allowed in, and the main room should be given to sculptors. And I hope that the Hermitage will find money for this. COMMENT Vladimir Timofeev, director of the Museum of Urban Sculpture:- I think that by 2006 we will have a workshop building and then we will decide what kind of exhibition there will be. But, of course, we cannot leave all the works of Anikushin and his wife Maria Litovchenko there. There are just a lot of them. Therefore, the sculptor’s heirs must agree on what they take for themselves and what they transfer to the city, and the corresponding document must be certified by a notary. You will have to invest a lot of money in repairing the building - installing communications, repairing the roof, equipping toilets, since this is a museum. As soon as the workshop is handed over to us, Adrian Anikushin will have to move out of there. But for now... it’s probably even good that he lives there. OFFICIALLY The Culture Committee of the city administration told us that since December last year, Anikushin’s workshop has been transferred to the operational management of the Museum of Urban Sculpture. As soon as the procedure is completed, museum staff will have to offer their vision of the future gallery. For now, it’s too early to talk about this. Is Anikushin's ONLINE STORE being sold out by an Italian? Now there are approximately 5 thousand works by the great sculptor in the workshop. We asked Adrian if they were all safe. - But why are you asking? Of course, all the sculptures are in place. - There are just rumors that you sell them on the Internet... - I don’t sell anything. There is just a website www.anikushin.com. It was created by an Italian businessman, and it is he who sells already cast figures from casts of Mikhail Konstantinovich’s works. It turns out that in the early 90s the sculptor entered into an agreement with this businessman. The businessman undertook to make an exhibition of small casts of Mikhail Konstantinovich in Italy. In return, the Italian received the right to cast bronze figures from these molds. After some time, the collection disappeared without a trace. And then a website appeared where the missing figures can be freely purchased. Nadezhda KOSITSKAYA. [email protected] Photo by Stas LEVSHIN, Andrey Fedorov and from the KP archive.

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