1996 Meeting with the head of Odessa Sea Port
Meeting with the head of Odessa Sea Port Now we already had two galleries and they worked in parallel, exhibitions were often opened in one and the other gallery. I had to recruit staff and pay everyone wages. My husband Radu had to leave his job and come to help me. I cannot but express my deep gratitude to my wonderful husband who, without a doubt, for a moment left his career and came to share with me all the problems of the new project. And now I can hardly imagine how we dealt with all this. Radu worked in the Maritime A rt Gallery already on Primorsky Boulevard and me on Uyutnaya. At this time, Leonid Grigoryevich Vilensky, a wonderful person who worked at that time in the advertising department of the Odesa port, began to visit the Maritime Gallery. It was he who, one might say, provided us with the greatest chance in the history of the gallery. He talked about the gallery to the head of the Odesa port, Nikolai Panteleimonovich Pavlyuk. Radu told me that Nikolai ...