[PDF.40dh] Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938
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Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938
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| #1159514 in Books | University of Washington Press | 2009-06-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.40 x1.20 x8.60l,4.30 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | ||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| The sale of the century - an important record of cultural dispersal and destruction|By K. Maxwell|If you've ever wondered how so many Imperial Faberge Easter eggs and other Romanov treasures appeared in the west after the Russian revolution then this book holds the answers. In 1917, with the Tsar deposed, Russia found itself in a bad situation with social chaos, starvation a||"For the first time readers can really see what Russia lost as a result of the Soviet drive to generate foreign currency: magnificent works of imperial porcelain; paintings by van Eyck, Titian, Rembrandt, and Rubens; Fabergé eggs; the furniture of David
Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike the widely publicized controversy surrounding Soviet-Nazi war loot and its restitution, the sales of the interwar period are not well known outside a small scholarly communit...
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