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Chronicles of a Speculator. In search of lost antiques

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Chronicles of a Speculator. In search of lost antiques
6.99 €
All the stories collected in this amazing book are absolutely true. In addition, the author tried to make them fun and entertaining. And he succeeded. And because each of them smells not only artistry in the spirit of Ostap Bender, but also a real criminal! Sometimes the author and himself surprised, as he, in the Soviet past - speculator wide art profile, and now a worthy expert on rarities and antiques, managed to become a participant in such bizarre events. The reader is allowed to look into the kitchen speculation valuable aesthetic objects and see from the inside a lot of extraordinary and instructive from the life of collectors, art historians, madmen, cranks, swindlers and swindlers. The book is read in one breath. Arkady Shvartser - a man of extraordinary fate: speculator in antiques, expert art historian, passionate bibliophile and People's Artist of Russia. "Shvartser loves every person he describes, even if he seems to condemn them. He knows how to admire and delight with his memory...". Ivan Okhlobystin "The book reads very easily, the style is amusing, the plots meet dizzying and, most importantly - before us is the pure truth about the USSR. Not all of it. But a little-known and very curious truth." Mikhail Weller
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