The Russian avant-garde movement is one of the most influential movements in the birth of modern art with some of its artists being credited as the pioneers of abstract art. The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after Igor V. Savitsky, a museum in the desert, holds one of the largest collections of Russian avant-garde art in the world, second only to The Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. There they held refuge from a totalitarian political time, but survived in the distance, saved by Igor Savitsky, his relentless efforts, bringing them to a place far away from central Soviet restrictions. Discover these works, revolutionary in their
