Acknowledgments

Tatiana's acknowledgments:

I would like to thank our very good friend Natalya Neiman for all her help with the translation of the longer texts on the various movements, which she did unselfishly, though it held little interest for her. She also never forgets to look for books on the subject, wherever she chances to be in a bookstore.

My heartfelt thanks to all the friends- old and new - whom I have bored for hours on end with the tales of my progress with this site. Thanks to those who have searched their hidden treasures or junk storages and found various books, albums and postcards with surprising rare works of half-forgotten artists for me to present here.

Among these I would like to especially thank is my very good friend Lev Krichevsky, who is continuously unearthing rare and precious books and bringing them for me to use on this site.

Thanks go to Anna Levinson, a friend timely acquired, when I was just beginning this site, and a fellow site-owner, for her lessons, advice and her assistance in the first stages of building this site.

Special thanks to Olga Mataeva, for her assistance from the very beginning, when even the very idea of Internet for me was vague at best.

And, finally, to my family. Thanks to my husband, Dr. Michael Rosenzweig, for putting up with the interminable hours I spent at the computer (which this particular user doesn't find overly friendly). To my brother, Alexandr Kofyan (in Moscow), for searching for those rare (and heavy) books at a smallest hint from me and sending them to me despite all the difficulties. To my daughter, Vera, for all the work she constantly puts in designing, proofing, publishing and maintaining this site. She had to learn how to be a webmaster on-the-go, a new direction for her. So many nights she has spent on my site, after putting her energetic baby (now toddler) to sleep. And, last, but by no means least, to my son, Jonathan for the great sacrifice he made of his room and computer, which we usurped days and nights for several months (so he had to sleep in another room).

Tatiana Kofyan

Some more acknowledgments from Vera Kofyan:

I would like to add a few acknowledgments that are all mine, and refer to the period after my mother's demise. All these people have been

Thanks to David and to Dana for finding me and not giving up on me, for your support, together and individually, and for making my mother's dream come true.

To Vova, for helping and supporting me in the impossible choices of platforms and hostings, and pushing me beyond my limits to learn Joomla, to understand data-oriented concept, and to redesign and reprogram my website on a database platform; and for allowing me to drill you relentlessly in order to understand how to expand the website to include visitors who are not already Russian Avant-garde enthusiasts or specialists.

To Pushkar, for your integrity and making this whole reprogramming even though the project you have taken on was a whole lot smaller; for your ability to really listen, understand and do what the customer wants, and not what you feel is more comfortable; for your confidence in my word, doing most of it on credit; for restoring my faith in programmers. I could not have done it without you. And I will make it up to you, as promised.

Thanks to my brother Jonathan, for the occasional ideas for improvement.

Thanks to all the friends of my mother, who have offered to help with this site. I will certainly need your help at some point.

To Josephina, who has been answering mail from our visitors with their questions for a while.

To Leonid Yuniverg and to Itella Mastelbaum, who held an evening in my mother's memory in the Russian Library in Jerusalem, and advertised our site to their club members.

To Victor Licht for his very kind article in the Israeli newspaper "Vesti", where he reviewed our website (very favorably, too) to all Russian readers.

And most of all - to you, the visitors, for your support and enthusiasm, your questions and your interest. For your contribution. And above all - for the continuous visits to our site. It would have meant a great deal to my mother. This is the work of her life, the realization of her dream, and your vote of confidence is reassuring me in my decision to maintain and continue her work.

Vera Kofyan