A word from our Founder and Sales Director, Edouard Kousskovski:

I began my art business in 1990 on the scenic Arbat Boulevard, in Moscow. I established a gallery in the Pushkin house, and openened other small shops in the area. Since then, I've been collecting matrioshkas, easter eggs and oil paintings of the highest quality, which I didn’t wish to give up, since they so pleased my eye, that I coundn't bring myself to consider selling them. In 1991, I began supplying the best hotels in Minsk with my objects d'art, and maintained a wonderful shop in the “Kievskaya Rus’” hotel in Kiev. The turnover was great and I came to a choice regarding my personal art collection. At that time, from 1992 to 1996, I sold a great deal of matrioshkas and easter eggs from my collection to Antoni Zorrzano Riera (a well-known European collector), which helped him to later set up his Museum of Russian Matrioshka in Andorra, one of the four museums he owned in the region.

Edouard Kousskovskii with Antoni Zorzano Riera, owner of the Museum of Russian Matrioshka

In 1996 I moved to New York. There I provided the “Russian World” store (55th West Str., 5th Avenue) with souvenir goods. I also supplied goods to a chain of church stores all over the USA.

Edouard Kousskovskii with Yury Burlan, owner of the "RUSSIAN WORLD" store (January, 2000)

In 1999 I set up my own commercial firm in Los Angeles, and imported a large quantity of high-quality paintings by Russian and Ukrainian artists, encompassing various ages and styles.

Edouard Kousskovskii in Los Angeles

At present, my company promotes Russian and Ukrainian artists in the USA and in Europe. As artists of the highest caliber, each is interesting in his style, biography, and (often profound) personal philosophy on life. They present both art realism and modern art. There are Christians, Sufis, Buddhists, Vedaists, or simply cosmopolitans who express their vision of the world, and deliver their expression in a manner which is characteristic of people of talent, as opposed to mediocrities.

Edouard Kousskovskii at Wall Street in New York

I would like the spectator to be inspired with this philosophy, to be pleased with this or that manner and his life and soul to be beautified with this art, and filled with harmony, and aesthetic pleasure.

Edouard's collection.

Sincerely, Edouard Kousskovskii