Author: N. I︠U︡ Semenova
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789211545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
Author: Christina Burrus
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the collaboration of Agnes Carbonell; photography by Leonid Ogarev; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz and Sue Rose. Translation of: Collectionneurs russes. Includes index.
Author: Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernard S. Myers
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Story of the country's artistic heritage and showing where they may be found today.