Edited sentence: A visionary man who understood the changing times in Russia and wanted to see his archives preserved for scholars.A wise man who had been chosen by Malevich to be his archivist, who staged (at the height of Communism) two day exhibitions of the Avant-garde only to have to close them minutes before the censors would learn of their existence.Nicolai Khardzhiev was a heroic man, who at the risk of his own life, collected forbidden Avant-Garde Art to preserve and protect it for eternity