Russia's sold treasures. History of the sale of national art treasures
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Russia's sold treasures. History of the sale of national art treasures
99.99 €
*Project of Natalia Semenova, specialist in the history of Russian collecting, author of the first complete catalogs of collections and biographies of famous collectors and Nicholas Ilyin, renowned curator, art historian, one of the world's leading experts on museum design. *The author of the foreword is Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences. *Author of the epilogue - Pavel Khoroshilov, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation (1997-2004, 2008-2012). *More than 200 unique illustrations and rare archival materials - photographs of art objects that have not survived to this day, as well as documents from archives, telling about the history of lost things, statistics and facts. Many documents are published for the first time. The book tells the story of how the Soviet government ravaged museum collections, churches and libraries - building a new empire required gigantic funds, which had to be urgently obtained by any means necessary. Seized national treasures, collected over centuries by generations of Russian emperors and collectors, were sold abroad. How many works of art ended up in the National Gallery in Washington, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and many other world museums? The authors demonstrate the colossal scale of the sale of the cultural heritage of Russia, which was on the verge of cultural catastrophe in the first third of the 20th century.
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