Marat Alexandrovich Gelman is a very ambiguous person. Politician and political strategist, State Duma deputy. Art historian and collector, who opened one of the first private art galleries in Russia, curator of many exhibitions, always popular, and sometimes scandalous.
Successful businessman: owner of a design bureau, publishing house, director of a museum of modern art, etc. Both in the art world and in the political world, Marat Gelman is constantly in sight and "at hearing."
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Marat Alexandrovich Gelman is a very ambiguous person. Politician and political strategist, State Duma deputy. Art historian and collector, who opened one of the first private art galleries in Russia, curator of many exhibitions, always popular, and sometimes scandalous.
Successful businessman: owner of a design bureau, publishing house, director of a museum of modern art, etc. Both in the art world and in the political world, Marat Gelman is constantly in sight and "at hearing."
The father of Marat Gelman is the famous playwright Alexander Gelman. There is a saying that the children of talented people “nature rests”. That's probably not quite true. It’s just that some celebrity kids are content with parental fame and the benefits it brings. Some prove to themselves and others that they are worth something on their own. Marat did not want to remain in the shadow of his father. In the “troubled times of the 90s”, many people with a sober mind, and a few adventurous veins earned a lot of money and used them later in different ways. Marat Gelman began collecting paintings and soon opened his own gallery of contemporary painting.
Politics Gelman was also very professional. The profession of political strategist, as such, appeared in Russia with his light hand. Together with Gleb Pavlovsky in the mid-90s, he developed the concept of the Effective Policy Foundation and created this fund.
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