Manin Vitali Serafimovich

Born in 1929.
Graduated from Moscow State University 1960, specialized in Russian art history.
1959- Department of Art Exhibitions Ministry of Culture, art curator.
1961- Department of Art Museums Ministry of Culture USSR, Chief of the Department.
1966- "Soviet Artist" Art publishers chief editor.
1967- Art Museum "Abramtsevo" , Director.
1973- State Tretyakov Gallery, Vice-Director (Scientific researches).
1979-1980- State Tretyakov Gallery, Director.
1980- Publishing House "Kniga", Chief editor art department.
1981-1988- All-Union Copyright Agency, Chief of the Art Department.
1988-1991- All-Union Applied Art Museum, Director.
1989-1991- Union of the Soviet Artists, Secretary.
1991- Union of Russia Federation Artists, Secretary.
1991-2005- Surikov Art Institute, Professor.

Doctor of Art History, Honorable worker of Art of Russia Federation.

The List of publications.
1. "Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi" 1976, "Soviet Artist" art publishers.
2. "Viktor Popkov" 1978, "Soviet Artist" art publishers.
3. "Soviet Artists in Abramtsevo" 1976.
4. "Nikolai Gritsuk" 1973, "Soviet Artist" art publishers.
5. "Igor Popov" 1979.
6. "Russische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts", West Germany.
7. "Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi" 1990, "The Artist of RSFSR" art publishers.
8. "Arkhip Kuindzhi" 1997, "The artist of Russia" art publishers.
9. "Viktor Popkov" 1989, second edition.
10. "Nikolai Gritsuk" 1984, "Uksel-Verlag" Berlin.
11. "Paintings of 1920-1930" 1991, "The Artist of RSFSR" art publishers.
12. "Gritsuk" 1991, Edition du Regard, Paris.
13. "Kuindzhi and his School" 1987, "The Artist of RSFSR" art publishers.
14. "L'Art Russe 1900-1935, 1989, Phillippe Sers, Paris.
15. "The masterpieces of Russian paintings" 2000, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
16. "The masterpieces of Russian paintings" 2001, second edition, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
17. "The Art in reservation. Art life of Russia 1917-1941" 1999, "URSS" publishing house.
18. "Ivan Shishkin" 1996, "Slovo" publishing house.
19. "Aristarkh Lentulov" 1996, "Slovo" publishing house.
20. "Kuindzhi" 2000, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
21. "Not Art as Art" 1999, "URSS" publishing house.
22. "Shishkin" 2000, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
23. "Konstantin Bogaevski" 2000, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
24. "Brothers Tkachev" 2000, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
25. "The Russian landscape paintings XVIII-XX centuries" 2001, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
26. "The Russian landscape paintings XVIII-XX centuries" 2002, second edition, "Bely Gorod" art publishers.
27. "Andrey Kovalchuk" 2002.
28. "Anatoli Zverev" 2002, "Rudomino" publishing house.
29. "Geli Mikhailovich Korzhev" 2002, "Novy Hermitage" art publishers.
30. "Viktor Kalinin" 2000.
31. "The Russian paintings XIX century" 2005, "Sojuz Design" art publishers.
More than 100 articles in the periodical editions (magazines, newspapers, e.t.c.)

Will be published in 2006-2007 "Dmitry Zhilinski" , "Nikolai Solomin", "Russian paintings XX century" 2 volume.