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Ilya Ostroukhov. Genius dilettante

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The most complete biography of Ilya Ostroukhov - trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery, collector and polymath, hero of the Silver Age of Russian art! The author of the book - biographer of Sergei Shchukin and the Morozov brothers, doctor of art history, specialist in the history of Russian collecting Natalia Semenova; The edition contains unique archival photographs. Once the name of the hero of this book, Ilya Semyonovich Ostroukhov, was pronounced with a gasp, admired for his erudition, taste and understanding of things. Without Ostroukhov, landscape painter, trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery, "Columbus of Old Russian painting" and passionate collector, it is impossible to imagine the Silver Age of Russian art. The museum collected by Ilya Ostroukhov - French paintings and Russian graphics, Oriental bronze and antique glass, Chinese lacquers and Russian icons - was located in a mansion in Trubnikovsky Lane, 17. After the revolution, like many other private collections, it was nationalized, and the owner himself was appointed director of the "Museum of his name", which was immediately liquidated after his death. Today the walls of the mansion house the exhibition halls of the State Literary Museum ("I. S. Ostroukhov's House in Trubniki"). Natalia Semyonova, bestselling author of the Saga of the Shchukins. Collectors of masterpieces and the Morozov Brothers. Collectors who do not bargain?, published in this series, with her inherent passion of the researcher and literary talent revives another forgotten name.
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