Nikolay Blagodatov

Nikolay Innokentjevich Blagodatov (Russian: Николай Иннокентьевич Благодатов) is a famous Soviet Nonconformist Art collector in USSR and Russia.^[1] He is a member of the Section of Criticism and Art Criticism of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.

Nikolay Blagodatov
Born	December 21, 1937 Leningrad, USSR
Citizenship	Russian
Occupation	collector of Soviet Nonconformist Art

Conversation with Nikolai Innokentievich Blagodatov, recorded by I. R. Sklyarevskaya for the Oral History Foundation

Biography

Nikolay Blagodatov graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications in 1962.^[2] In 1975, he became interested in collecting works of modern art. At the moment, his collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art (1970-1990) is one of the most significant in Russia.^[3] Since 1979, he has been writing articles about art (more than 250 articles).^[4] As a collector, organizer and participant of more than 50 exhibitions, including 8 personal collections.^[5] He is a partner of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. He personally meets with many representatives of Soviet Nonconformist Art.^{[6] [7]}

Bibliography (selected)

• Subjective spaces of the city. — Petersburg Art History Notebooks, issue 67, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2021. — pp. 66–68. (RUS) ISBN 978-5-906442-31-4
• Blagodatov N. City: Subjective Improvisations / City as an Artist's Subjectivity. Artist's book project. Catalog. Authors of the articles: Parygin A.B., Markov T.A., Klimova E.D., Borovsky A.D., Severyukhin D.Ya., Grigoryants E.I., Blagodatov N.I. (Rus & En) — Saint Petersburg: Ed. T. Markova. 2020. — 128 p. — S. 5. ISBN 978-5-906281-32-6
• Blagodatov N., Herman M., Dmitrenko A.; scientific hands. Petrova E. N. Alexey Stern. Graphics, painting, sculpture: Exhibition catalog (Rus & En). — Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2004. — 144 p.
• Walking with memories // THE! — 2004. — No. 4.
• Art is a search, search is an art. — Neva, No. 2, 2002. — P. 253—255. (RUS).