On 26 September 2021, the Great Hall of the Anna Akhmatova State Literary Memorial Museum in the Fountain House hosted a presentation of the book The Hermitage Experiment by Boris Golovachev about the artists of the Hermitage Creative Association. The publication includes a large section of reproductions of their analytical works. The author and direct participant in the Hermitage Association Boris Golovachev spoke about the idea for the book, the key moments in the process of learning to paint, shared his personal recollections, and answered numerous questions from the audience. With the report “Museum, G.Y. Dlugach and the method of analytical copying. The publication of Boris Golovachev’s book The Hermitage Experiment” was presented by Olga Koshkina, Candidate of Art History and member of the Artists’ Union.


