Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia

Author: Neverov, Oleg
Piotrovsky, Mikhail

Publisher: Abrams Books

Format:Hardcover

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Overview:

Among the most important private art collections ever created were those of Imperial Russia. Catherine the Great, guided by Voltaire, amassed treasures on a Herculean scale, laying the basis for what is today the State Hermitage Museum. Favorite courtiers of the 18th and 19th centuries built magnificent palaces in St. Petersburg and Moscow for their vast collections of paintings, antiquities, and decorative arts. In a lively and anecdotal text, Oleg Neverov reassembles these now-legendary private collections - which, after the 1917 revolution, were dispersed among the Hermitage, Pushkin, and Tretiakov museums, sold to foreign, museums, or spirited abroad. Represented here are works that once belonged to such famed aristocratic families as the Stroganoffs and Yussupovs; to the merchant princes Mamontov and Tenischeva, collectors of the Russian arts and crafts movement; and to the legendary and highly discriminating Morozov and Schukin families, the largest purchasers of the early works of Picasso and Braque. Here, portraits of the collectors with their collections, period photography, beautiful reproductions of the artworks, and texts drawn from the latest research in Russian archives bring this long-gone era and its treasures to life. NOTE: This is a Scratch and Dent version and accordingly MAY NOT have a dust jacket.

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