Russian artists capture everyday Soviet life – in pictures

At the height of tensions during the cold war, Russian artists never imagined their work being appreciated outside the eastern bloc. But in 1960 the American art collector Eric Estorick travelled to the Soviet Union and was so taken with the work of artists from Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory that he bought up hundreds of works, exhibiting them at his Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1961. Inspired by that landmark show, the Estorick gallery is now mounting a display of work by 15 such