Aliki Kostaki

Aliki Kostaki, daughter of Georgy Dionisovich, is a former gallery owner, keeper of Costakis’ archives who graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. The artist Anatoly Zverev captured her in a series of outstanding portraits and, according to the family legend, even asked for her hand in marriage (although he immediately received a polite refusal from George).

It was Aliki who continued her father's work - she became the keeper of that part of the avant-garde collection that the family took into exile. She was directly involved in the creation of foreign exhibitions, in the study and publication of archival materials and art works. For three years in Athens, Aliki was the director of the Segodnya Gallery, which represented Russian non-conformists in the West. Thus, the Costakis collection was replenished with works by artists created already in the 1970ies and 1980ies. Aliki Kostaki is associated with two major events in the fate of his father's collection. In 1997, she arranged the sale to the Greek state the part of the avant-garde works that were kept in the family (now in the Museum of Modern Art in Thessaloniki-MOMus). In 2013, she donated to the AZ Museum in Moscow a unique collection of works by Anatoly Zverev, covering the early period of his work (over 600 pieces).