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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. This week we're bringing you the stories of some of the most

famous artists and exhibitions of the 20th century. Today Louise Hidalgo is bringing us the story of a Russian painter and archaeologist who defied Moscow

to rescue thousands of works of avant-garde art outlawed by the Soviet authorities.

In the 1960s, Igor Savitsky made a remarkable museum for them

in the desert of Uzbekistan away from the eyes of the KGB.

It's 1966 and in a dust-blown town called Nucus on the edge of

Uzbekistan's western desert. and in a dust-blown town called Nucus on the edge of

Uzbekistan's western desert.

A Russian Igor Savitsky is realizing his dream

and opening a museum where he can keep thousands of

forbidden works of art that he's secretly been

collecting in this remote and impoverished outpost of the Soviet Union.

This idea to create museum in such geographical far-flung place was one of the most important

of its decisions, it was his success.

I've been talking to Andre Volkkov, the grandson of the great Russian painter Alexander

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