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Robbery and Salvation: Russian Museums During World War II

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Robbery and Salvation: Russian Museums During World War II
29.99 €
14.99 €
With millions of human casualties, World War II was also a cultural catastrophe: many museums were looted, churches were destroyed, and works of art and libraries perished in fires or were taken away as "trophies". The book, prepared by a Russian-German team of authors, tells the fate of Russia's cultural treasures lost during those years. In the center of the study is the "military history" of several museum complexes: suburban palaces near St. Petersburg - Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Gatchina and the ancient Russian cities of Novgorod and Pskov. What measures were taken to protect and save the museum collections? How and by whom were they looted? By what ways the stolen works of art went to the West? Who tried to preserve them under bombing, occupation and evacuation? The authors seek answers to these questions where the stories of museums are intertwined with the stories of people - those who rescued museum treasures and those who looted them. It is a story that has not yet ended.....
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