In this episode of The Art Business podcast, we discuss the Russian art world and its markets, both in the main centres of Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as in the hinterland.
 
Dr. Anastasia Pechalova (b. 1992 Moscow) is an art market researcher with a PhD in the History of International Relations. She studied at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and now lectures at the Department of International Relations. She has an MA and BA in International Relations, and has recently graduated with distinction from the MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.  Her PhD was on the role of expertise in decision-making and politics.
 
In 2016-2021 Anastasia worked in top-level Russian politics as a speechwriter. In 2020-2021 she worked as a researcher on a project devoted to trend-watching in culture.  This analysed trends in exhibitions, the work of museums and cultural institutions.
 
In 2021 Anastasia launched Art Barometer, Russia’s first research platform dedicated to monitoring the art market. To date this includes communications with over 300 dealers, collectors and market professionals about their activities in 2021. http://artbarometer.ru/english 
 
Anastasia's professional interests include the market for Old Master paintings, Russian art and icons. She collects Russian eighteenth and nineteenth-century icons, damaged and unrestored as well as objects of Russian peasant life.
 
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL