A hobby for the old townsperson. Memoirs of a pessimist

Igor Golomstok - Famous Soviet and English art historian, the author of many publications, the most famous book Totalitarian Art (first published in English in 1990), a close friend of Andrei Sinyavsky and his co-author on the first Soviet monograph on Picasso. In the process of Sinyavsky - Daniel for the refusal of the testimony was sentenced to the sixth of the forced work. In 1972, emigrated to the UK. For a long time, I was an employee of the BBC and Radio Liberty, taught at Saint-Andrews universities, Essex, Oxford. He lives in London.
With all familiar, with many friends and a lot of helped, the Golomstok managed to keep the position of the corner tenant , a person who does not participate in the horror race. This experience of human separateness is the main value of these memories.
Mikhail Mikes. Lechim