August 1, 2010
Solo Show @ Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Gallery Show:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
Curated by Stamatina Gregory
September 8 – November 6
Opening with the artist and curator: Friday, September 24, 6 - 8 pm
Lecture:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lecture and discussion with artist begins at 5 pm.
Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, my installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism.
This show will also include my new work entitled, "Stalin's Directive on Modern Art."
Temple Gallery
12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 777-9144
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Gallery Show:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
Curated by Stamatina Gregory
September 8 – November 6
Opening with the artist and curator: Friday, September 24, 6 - 8 pm
Lecture:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lecture and discussion with artist begins at 5 pm.
Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, my installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism.
This show will also include my new work entitled, "Stalin's Directive on Modern Art."
Temple Gallery
12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 777-9144
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June 4, 2010
Solo Show @ Winkleman Gallery
I am pleased to present my new series of work entitled, Ayn Rand in Illustrations, to be debuted at Winkleman Gallery in New York City.
June 18 - July 30, 2010
Reception: June 18, 6 to 8pm
Click here for the press release.
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I am pleased to present my new series of work entitled, Ayn Rand in Illustrations, to be debuted at Winkleman Gallery in New York City.
June 18 - July 30, 2010
Reception: June 18, 6 to 8pm
Click here for the press release.
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June 3, 2010
Group Shows
I have two group shows coming up in June:
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Curated by Miguel Amado, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: O político na Colecção Berardo) will feature my Communist Tour of MoMA works on paper at the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition will run from June 8 to September 12.
From the website:
Alluding to a famous passage from the Communist Manifesto (written by Marx and Engels in 1848), the words "All that is solid melts into air" brings a sense of change in society. In the artistic context, the importance of this observation it appears on the awareness of the primacy of media in modern culture, a necessary condition for the existence of art as an instrument of emancipation of mankind. It is in this light that the Berardo Collection presents this exhibition, gathering works that call every day problems, spell out a critique of reality or reflect utopian visions of the world.
Enjoy Art Gallery, New Zealand
I am also participating in Gregory Sholette's Wellington Collaboratorium: An Imaginary Archive at Enjoy Art Gallery in Wellington New Zealand. The show will run from June 9 to June 26.
From the website:
A public art project, An Imaginary Archive of novels, brochures, catalogues, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications and material will infiltrate Enjoy and other Wellington locations during Sholette's residency. Inserted into a number of second-hand bookstores and other public places, this archive moves to present an alternative vision of the realities our society might inhabit, had the world been shaped differently.
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I have two group shows coming up in June:
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Curated by Miguel Amado, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: O político na Colecção Berardo) will feature my Communist Tour of MoMA works on paper at the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition will run from June 8 to September 12.
From the website:
Alluding to a famous passage from the Communist Manifesto (written by Marx and Engels in 1848), the words "All that is solid melts into air" brings a sense of change in society. In the artistic context, the importance of this observation it appears on the awareness of the primacy of media in modern culture, a necessary condition for the existence of art as an instrument of emancipation of mankind. It is in this light that the Berardo Collection presents this exhibition, gathering works that call every day problems, spell out a critique of reality or reflect utopian visions of the world.
Enjoy Art Gallery, New Zealand
I am also participating in Gregory Sholette's Wellington Collaboratorium: An Imaginary Archive at Enjoy Art Gallery in Wellington New Zealand. The show will run from June 9 to June 26.
From the website:
A public art project, An Imaginary Archive of novels, brochures, catalogues, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications and material will infiltrate Enjoy and other Wellington locations during Sholette's residency. Inserted into a number of second-hand bookstores and other public places, this archive moves to present an alternative vision of the realities our society might inhabit, had the world been shaped differently.
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April 16, 2010
Book Launch: SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Please support and buy a book to which I contributed:
SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Book Launch at Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, New York, NY
Saturday, April 24th, 5 - 7 pm
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Please support and buy a book to which I contributed:
SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Book Launch at Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, New York, NY
Saturday, April 24th, 5 - 7 pm
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April 1, 2010
Group Show @ Postmasters Gallery, NYC
I have several paintings from the Communist Party, USA, series in a group show entitled, Mirror, Mirror at Postmasters Gallery. The show will run from April 2, 2010 to May 8, 2010.
The opening is on Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm.
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
Click here for press release.
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I have several paintings from the Communist Party, USA, series in a group show entitled, Mirror, Mirror at Postmasters Gallery. The show will run from April 2, 2010 to May 8, 2010.
The opening is on Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm.
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
Click here for press release.
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March 27, 2010
Feature @ Idiommag
Post-Soviet Traumas: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
Idiom
3/25/10
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Post-Soviet Traumas: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
Idiom
3/25/10
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March 15, 2010
Communist Tour of MoMA Coverage
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA
Bloggy
3/3/10
Yevgeniy Fiks names names in Communist Tour of MoMA
James Wagner
3/4/10
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Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA
Bloggy
3/3/10
Yevgeniy Fiks names names in Communist Tour of MoMA
James Wagner
3/4/10
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February 17, 2010
Group Show @ Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
Artistes Russes: Un art au superlatif
Abbaye Saint Andre Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
March 13, 2010 to July 13, 2010
Gallery Opening: March 13 at 18:00
Organized with the help of Galerie Blue Square, my Song of Russia paintings will be featured at this show. Click here for more information.
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Artistes Russes: Un art au superlatif
Abbaye Saint Andre Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
March 13, 2010 to July 13, 2010
Gallery Opening: March 13 at 18:00
Organized with the help of Galerie Blue Square, my Song of Russia paintings will be featured at this show. Click here for more information.
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February 13, 2010
Communist Party USA at the Fountain Art Fair
What: Galerie Zeitgeist will be representing me at the 2010 Fountain Art Fair.
When: March 4 to 7, 2010
Where: at Pier 66 @ 26th Street and the West Side Highway, New York NY
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What: Galerie Zeitgeist will be representing me at the 2010 Fountain Art Fair.
When: March 4 to 7, 2010
Where: at Pier 66 @ 26th Street and the West Side Highway, New York NY
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February 12, 2010
Group Show/Performance @ Winkleman Gallery
I will participate in a show entitled, #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. They will transform Winkleman Gallery into a ‘classroom’ in which they will work with the public audience, guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, and collectors to discuss the role of class in the art world and to identify and propose alternatives/reforms/solutions to the current market system. The notion of the gallery as a work space will be explored aesthetically, socially, critically, and academically.
Lecture/Performance: Communist Modern Artist and the Market
Friday, March 12, 2010
2:00 p.m.
Winkleman Gallery
I will be presenting a slide-lecture titled "Communist Modern Artists and the Art Market," showing how many of the the most highly valued art of the 20th century were produced by artists who considered themselves communists (Picasso, Leger, Kahlo, Rivera and more).
Click here for more information about #class and a list of scheduled events.
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I will participate in a show entitled, #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. They will transform Winkleman Gallery into a ‘classroom’ in which they will work with the public audience, guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, and collectors to discuss the role of class in the art world and to identify and propose alternatives/reforms/solutions to the current market system. The notion of the gallery as a work space will be explored aesthetically, socially, critically, and academically.
Lecture/Performance: Communist Modern Artist and the Market
Friday, March 12, 2010
2:00 p.m.
Winkleman Gallery
I will be presenting a slide-lecture titled "Communist Modern Artists and the Art Market," showing how many of the the most highly valued art of the 20th century were produced by artists who considered themselves communists (Picasso, Leger, Kahlo, Rivera and more).
Click here for more information about #class and a list of scheduled events.
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February 7, 2010
News Feed: Low Road Gallery and DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Deconstructing Art History
DePauw University
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Deconstructing Art History
DePauw University
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January 17, 2010
Solo Show @ Low Road Gallery, DePauw University
In an installation that consists of works on paper, reenacted speeches (circa 1950s) by former US Congressman from Michigan George A. Dondero, and modified MoMA publications, I will feature Modern Artists who identified as Communists or had Communists ties in a show entitled, “Communist Tour of MoMa.” This project departs from the history of Modern Art and MoMA as subjects of investigations during the McCarthy era and essentially brings to our attention the role of MoMA in defining Modern Art away from the modern artists' political ideologies.
In my talk entitled, "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist," I will discuss the conceptual framework of addressing the Soviet experience today--after the collapse of the Soviet bloc--and highlight the question of historical responsibility as fundamental to the construction of the post-Soviet discourse. A special focus on the historical context of "Communist Tour of MoMA" will be given.
Lecture: Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Room: Auditorium, Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media (PCCM)
DePauw University
Art Exhibit: Communist Tour of MoMA
March 5 - March 26, 2010
Low Road Gallery
Opening Reception: March 5th at 7pm.
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In an installation that consists of works on paper, reenacted speeches (circa 1950s) by former US Congressman from Michigan George A. Dondero, and modified MoMA publications, I will feature Modern Artists who identified as Communists or had Communists ties in a show entitled, “Communist Tour of MoMa.” This project departs from the history of Modern Art and MoMA as subjects of investigations during the McCarthy era and essentially brings to our attention the role of MoMA in defining Modern Art away from the modern artists' political ideologies.
In my talk entitled, "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist," I will discuss the conceptual framework of addressing the Soviet experience today--after the collapse of the Soviet bloc--and highlight the question of historical responsibility as fundamental to the construction of the post-Soviet discourse. A special focus on the historical context of "Communist Tour of MoMA" will be given.
Lecture: Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Room: Auditorium, Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media (PCCM)
DePauw University
Art Exhibit: Communist Tour of MoMA
March 5 - March 26, 2010
Low Road Gallery
Opening Reception: March 5th at 7pm.
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November 4, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY
MIGUEL AMADO PRESENTS
Works by Ana Cardoso, Carolina Caycedo, Jeanette Doyle, Yevgeniy Fiks, Runo Lagomarsino, Michael Mandiberg, Kaeko Mizukoshi, and Miguel Ângelo Rocha
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7 - 9PM
(shuttle to ISCP available at the Grand St stop, off the L train)
Opening Hours: Saturday, November 7, 2 - 6PM
Sunday, November 8, 2 - 6PM
Monday, November 9, 12 - 8PM
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MIGUEL AMADO PRESENTS
Works by Ana Cardoso, Carolina Caycedo, Jeanette Doyle, Yevgeniy Fiks, Runo Lagomarsino, Michael Mandiberg, Kaeko Mizukoshi, and Miguel Ângelo Rocha
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7 - 9PM
(shuttle to ISCP available at the Grand St stop, off the L train)
Opening Hours: Saturday, November 7, 2 - 6PM
Sunday, November 8, 2 - 6PM
Monday, November 9, 12 - 8PM
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October 13, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Beyond the Instance of an Ending: projects and events organized by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia
Herter Art Gallery
November 5, 2009 to December 10, 2009
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Beyond the Instance of an Ending: projects and events organized by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia
Herter Art Gallery
November 5, 2009 to December 10, 2009
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October 13, 2009
NEWS CLIP: "American Communists in Moscow" Tour at the 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Moscow Biennale Beats Odds (in English)
09 Sept 09
ArtInfo
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Moscow Biennale Beats Odds (in English)
09 Sept 09
ArtInfo
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October 5, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "American Communists in Moscow" Tour at the 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
What's in the Biennale (in Russian)
02 Oct 09
Kommersant
Walking around Moscow (in Russian)
28 Sept 09
Itogi
All together, without exception, Opens third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (in Russian)
25 Sept 09
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Five outstanding Biennial Exhibitions (in Russian)
24 Sept 09
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Drum painting and melted keyboard (in Russian)
22 Sept 09
Snob
Art demands legs (in Russian)
21 Sept 09
MK
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What's in the Biennale (in Russian)
02 Oct 09
Kommersant
Walking around Moscow (in Russian)
28 Sept 09
Itogi
All together, without exception, Opens third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (in Russian)
25 Sept 09
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Five outstanding Biennial Exhibitions (in Russian)
24 Sept 09
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Drum painting and melted keyboard (in Russian)
22 Sept 09
Snob
Art demands legs (in Russian)
21 Sept 09
MK
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September 5, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art
American Communists in Moscow: Walking Tours with Yevgeniy Fiks
September 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
September 29, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
September 30, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
October 1, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
Ultra New Materiality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 23rd, 2009-October 30th, 2009
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American Communists in Moscow: Walking Tours with Yevgeniy Fiks
September 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
September 29, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
September 30, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
October 1, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
Ultra New Materiality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 23rd, 2009-October 30th, 2009
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September 5, 2009
Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Progressive Nostalgia Exhibition Catalog, Centro per L'art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci--Prato, 2007 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 65-66, June 2007)
The programmatic and conscientious rejection of responsibility as instrumental in the process of cultural production constitutes perhaps the most characteristic feature of post-Soviet art. In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, a tendency of the 1990s and 2000s has been to deny responsibility operational legitimacy in artistic practice and violently push it out as incompatible with and foreign to the post-Soviet context, eagerly privileging its diametrical opposition – irresponsibility – as the only appropriate and fitting for the contemporary moment. READ MORE
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by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Progressive Nostalgia Exhibition Catalog, Centro per L'art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci--Prato, 2007 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 65-66, June 2007)
The programmatic and conscientious rejection of responsibility as instrumental in the process of cultural production constitutes perhaps the most characteristic feature of post-Soviet art. In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, a tendency of the 1990s and 2000s has been to deny responsibility operational legitimacy in artistic practice and violently push it out as incompatible with and foreign to the post-Soviet context, eagerly privileging its diametrical opposition – irresponsibility – as the only appropriate and fitting for the contemporary moment. READ MORE
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September 5, 2009
Post Diaspora: Statement and Premonition
by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Moscow Art Magazine, English Digest 1993-2004, 2005 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 56, 2004)
Over the last six months, the term "post-diaspora" has often been applied to the generation of post-Soviet artists and intellectuals who had moved to the West in the 1990s after the collapse of the Berlin wall in the age of discussions on globalization and the general demoralization of the local. The post-diasporic generation is highly inhomogeneous: the representatives of post-diaspora include both subjects that have "settled-for-good" in the West (the post-Soviet version of the local Western Other) and "temporarily-displaced" nomadic individuals, who are at times virtually indistinguishable from traditional colonial travelers. READ MORE
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by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Moscow Art Magazine, English Digest 1993-2004, 2005 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 56, 2004)
Over the last six months, the term "post-diaspora" has often been applied to the generation of post-Soviet artists and intellectuals who had moved to the West in the 1990s after the collapse of the Berlin wall in the age of discussions on globalization and the general demoralization of the local. The post-diasporic generation is highly inhomogeneous: the representatives of post-diaspora include both subjects that have "settled-for-good" in the West (the post-Soviet version of the local Western Other) and "temporarily-displaced" nomadic individuals, who are at times virtually indistinguishable from traditional colonial travelers. READ MORE
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February 11, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "Adopt Lenin" Solo Show at the Winkleman Gallery, New York City
De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch
03 Feb 09
Thing Theory
Yevgeniy Fiks
Jan 09
Art in America
Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery
02 Oct 09
Art Fag City
All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies
29 Sept 08
Catherine Spaeth Blog
The Russian Soldier
19 Sept 09
ArtCat Zine
Lenin Re-commodified
14 Sept 09
ArtSlant
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De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch
03 Feb 09
Thing Theory
Yevgeniy Fiks
Jan 09
Art in America
Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery
02 Oct 09
Art Fag City
All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies
29 Sept 08
Catherine Spaeth Blog
The Russian Soldier
19 Sept 09
ArtCat Zine
Lenin Re-commodified
14 Sept 09
ArtSlant
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February 10, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "Song of Russia" Solo Show at Galerie Blue Square, Paris
Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Blue Square
09 Feb 09
Le Monde
La Metro Goldwyn Mayer épinglée par un artiste russe
23 Jan 09
20 Minutes via DELIREDELART
Yevgeniy Fiks, the Song of Russia
Jan 09
L'Officiel
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Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Blue Square
09 Feb 09
Le Monde
La Metro Goldwyn Mayer épinglée par un artiste russe
23 Jan 09
20 Minutes via DELIREDELART
Yevgeniy Fiks, the Song of Russia
Jan 09
L'Officiel
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