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Collectors of the Russian icon belong to the first trend of the Russian art market, and the entrepreneur and philanthropist Mikhail Abramova is the clear example of this. He found the first in Moscow and the second in Russia Museum of the Russian icon. The museum was opened in 2006 and for all the time it has earned the recognition of the public and the professional community. The museum became the first Russian private collection, accepted in the International Council of Museums at UNESCO.

The collection has about 5,000 exhibits, 1,000 icons are among of them.

Realism and socialist realism trends have received the form of the Soviet modernism. Alexei Ananyev owns the largest collection of Severe-style art in Russia.

The IRRA museum was opened on December 1, 2011 in one of the old buildings of the former cotton-printing factory.

The IRRI art collection today is considered one of the finest art collections of national realistic school of the twentieth century.

Leonid Mikhelson, Roman Abramovich and Daria Zhukova, Natasha and Igor Tsukanov, Stella Kesareva, Iveta and Tamaz Mansherov, Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin are the collectors of contemporary art.

Zhukov and Abramovich founded the Garage modern art museum in 2008. Over the years, the museum has implemented more than 100 exhibition projects.

The art of the first third of the XX century is represented in the collection of Peter Aven. It contains works from the "World of Art" to the masters of the Soviet pre-war era, excluding irrelevance. In Kamensky's opinion, Aven's collection embodied the aesthetic ideals of forward-thinking Russian elite10 years ago.

However, now there is a change of generations, and the aesthetic preferences of the elite have shifted towards modern art.

The Russian art market is still dominated by the realism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The trend demonstrates the standard of the Russian school. This style is perceived by the Russians, and it is stable for decades. The Russian realism resists penetration of any modifications of the "Black square". Not so many opinion leaders collect paintings of Aivazovsky, Shishkin and Vasnetsov. Therefore, their collections are not personified in a public space.

The President of the European Jewish Congress Vyacheslav Kantor collects an ethnically specific collection – masterpieces that represent Jewish artistic geniuses. The ethnic trend is not so popular among the participants of the Forbes list.

The collections that reflect the imperial consciousness of the Soviet period from the 1930s to the 1950s can be considered the next trend in the Russian art market. The well-known lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky is clearly a fan of this trend. His collection includes the propaganda porcelain, furniture of the Stalin's empire, as well as books with a detailed description and analysis of the archival heritage of icons of this "imperialism."

The collections of Mark Kurzer, Michael Alshibay and Alexander Kronik tell about the "other art", which fixes the public consciousness of the era of the sixties.