Michael Khodarkovsky: Russian thugs vs. the avant-garde
A dome and crosses of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour are seen behind the Manezh exhibition hall's roof in central Moscow on Feb. 17.
On Aug. 14, members of the ultraconservative Orthodox Christian organization, God’s Will, stormed into an exhibition that had just opened at Moscow’s storied exhibition hall, the Manezh. The exhibition, "Sculptures We Do Not See," was a retrospective of Russian avant-garde art from the 1950-60s.
