Dear Mr. President:

    I am turning to you as a political refugee who has made a contribution to America's culture. I ask for your personal attention and urgent- help in the critical situation surrounding my gift to America.

    Over the two years I've been in America I have needed more than once to turn to you, first when you were Vice President, then as President-Elect, and now as President. My letters to you were rerouted the State Department's Office of Soviet Affairs,, the director of which, Mr.Veshbow, has taken a path of disinformation and denial of the facts regarding my bequest to America, dragging this affair out over an unforgivably long period of time and thus allowing the seizure of my art by Moscow. Mr. Veshbow has no regard for the honor of America? the country he is supposed to be serving.

    As was the custom among American diplomats in Moscow, my gift to America was received by U.S. Ambassadors Arthur Hartman and Jack Matlock, based on my documents of deed and on oral agreement with American diplomats in Moscow Gregory Guroff and Jane Barley (1985), and Max Robinson and Jean McKenzie (30 Nov 1987).

    My gift to America isn't indestructible property: is a collection of works of art, works of extreme value and unrepeatable in nature, to which I hold the copyrights. These donated works of art were created by me, an independent professional artist, over the course of 30 years of costly and hard-fought resistance to the Soviet system.

    But now I have full grounds to state that I have been cheated and betrayed by the American diplomats and by Mr. Veshbow, and that there can be seen in this matter the hand of the KGB, seeking its revenge on an artist-fighter through spiritual murder.

    The destruction of my art, given to America, and of my name as a creative artist, cannot pass unnoticed and unpunished in a just and civilized country such as America.

    Mr. President, I ask you as Chief of State of the United States of America to bring a quick end to this ongoing crime being committed with my art, a crime perpetrated by American diplomats and Mr. Vershbow, and also by Moscow, which has seized and is selling off that which belongs to America.

    My gift to the people and government of America must, in the shortest time possible, be retrieved from Moscow and brought to the U.S. in accordance with the catalogues of the donated works, which arrived by diplomatic annels in the State Department from Moscow along with the documents of deed in December, 1989.