The borscht and caviar will be washed down with vodka Thursday night at the annual RAJE (Russian American Jewish Experience) gala at Guastavino’s.
The Brighton Beach-based charity is paying homage to the traveling exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Story of Soviet Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army During World War II,” a project of Odessa-born Len Blavatnik and his younger brother Alex. It’s now on display at the University of Southern California.
Len — whose $16 billion holdings include Warner Music — just returned from Cannes, where he made the high bid of $15 million for “Gone but Not Forgotten,” the gilded mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst.
Others expected to be on hand to hear Israel’s deputy defense minister Danny Danon: hedge funder Michael Steinhardt, defense lawyers Ben Brafman and Barry Slotnick, taxicab mogul Evgeny Freidman and the dinner’s chair, p.r. poobah Ronn Torossian.