Mikhail Kurilko-Ryumin

ART COLLECTORS AND PATRONS

Mikhail Kurilko-Ryumin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kurilko and the History of His Collection

#2 2010 (27)

It would not be an overstatement to say that my father Mikhail Ivanovich Kurilko (1880-1969) was a legendary person. Over the course of his long life full of various adventures and reversals of fortune he accomplished a great deal. And most essentially, although in terms of pure numbers his achievements in different fields of knowledge, art and science look fairly modest, the mark he left in each is tangible; his name was quite famous in the last century, and many gratefully remember him to this day.