Grape color: Julia Obolenskaya, Konstantin Kandaurov

The book “The color of the grapes” restores in the picture of the “Silver Age” another history of human feelings, moving a high attitude to art. It began in the Crimea, in the house of Voloshin, where in 1913 the young St. Petersburg artist Yulia Obolenskaya met the poet’s friend and the curator of Moscow exhibitions Konstantin Kandaurov. Having combined “souls and brushes”, they supported and inspired each other in creativity, keeping their love, which saved them in the most difficult idleness of the era. They dreamed of writing a book about this. The idea of ​​the artists was embodied by the historian and culturologist Larisa Alekseev. Her fascinating story is the experience of the personal experience of the events of those years, associated with archival search, reading and comparing letters, documents, images. On the pages of the book, the reader will meet with M. Voloshin, K. Bogaevsky, A. Tolstoy, V. Khodasevich, M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, artists of the St. Petersburg school E.N. Zvantseva and other cultural heroes of the first third of the twentieth century