Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia

by Oleg Yakovlevich. Neverov

Pub October 2004 Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! This volume recreates the collections of pre-Revolution Russia. describes how they were made and by whom. and offers not only photographs of the great treasures themselves. but portraits of the owners. illustrations of the exteriors and interiors of their palaces as they were in the past. Private the origin of museumsp. 7Family collectingp. 9Private galleries as a public servicep. 10The emergence of private collections in Peter the Great and his inner the early 18th centuryp. 13Collectors from the aristocracy. old and the second half of the 18th centuryp. 21Servants of the state and Russian collectors the 19th centuryp. 105Merchant princes of the Moscow 1850-19...

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First published September 1, 2004