Evgeniy Dvoretskiy was born in Tolyatti. As a child he lived in Izhevsk. Engeniy graduated from biological faculty of Ydmurtia State University but he decided to continue studying at Modern Art School rather than at genebiology institute in Moscow. Then he married a biologist and they moved to New York in 2011. Evgeniy is an illustrator and a designer. Men's Health and CEO, T-shirt store, Moleskine, Vera Wang are some of his clients.

Varya Alyay’s apartment is like both Varya Alyay’s museum and her world of artistic illustration. Varya, her son Larick and a pure-blooded dog Bobick live there. There are also different dolls, old and new toys, unusual tableware, pictures and furniture. And plenty of ruddy red things.

Our ignorance in tattoo sphere can only be compared to our intolerance. Having asked some people who study, make and have tattoos we can draw the conclusion.
Special thanks to the some of you who like the idea of this article. So painted bodies and talks about them as soon as the mockery of simpletons are on the agenda today.

There is no need for the introduction of Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva. She left for Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands (Peter the Great has confused everyone with calling it Holland).

There are plenty of intermediaries between a customer and a doer in the world of advertising. Advertising agencies, production studios, designer companies use illustrating, photo and retouching service. Young, well-read, stylish and witty people who read the same magazines, listen to the same music and watch the same movies work there. That is why you intuitively anticipate their adequate attitude to the creative work. But they behave as if they have got something wrong into their heads.

Despite the trend Maxim Chatskiy and Galya Panchenko don’t live in Indonesia. They live in Hamburg, Germany. Galya studies, Maxim works, they go to exhibitions, museums and galleries and lead the cultural life as we imagine it.

Gleb Solntsev (an illustrator and an artist) was born in Tbilisi. He got his artistic education at Serov art school, MSPU, ISI, VGIK. Gleb worked for many magazines. Projects for «Afisha»’s workshop, «Grant’s book of the great discoveries» and the trip to India for the purpose of creating comics based on lama Tai Situ Rhinpoche’s ideas for «Snob» are ones of his favourites. Gleb is living in Bali now and he’s doing very well.

First we intended collecting material about the artists who left for different places where they live and work now. When we got the answers to the questionnaire we had sent it became clear that they are too vivid to be buried in a coomon grave of a collective interview. So now here is a new column and new columnist. Andrew Gordeev is the first one to start this conversation.