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Treasures into Tractors
The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938
The imperial Easter eggs by Fabergé and Old-Master paintings purchased by Andrew Mellon from the State Hermitage and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are the most celebrated works that changed hands. Equally significant are the bibliographic rarities from imperial libraries, icons and liturgical art from churches and monasteries, and antiques, furnishings and fine art from estates, palaces, and private homes.
See the review in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html
About the Authors
Reviews
"Odom and Salmond have performed a tremendously valuable public service in assembling so much important scholarship in one place, and in a book so attractively presented that it is sure to win attention… It may be too late for many of Russia's dispossessed (and their relatives) to reclaim even a fraction of their stolen property— but at least the world is beginning slowly to recognize what was lost."—The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
"Treasures into Tractors is a long overdue and highly significant publication."—The Art Newspaper
"More proof that antiques can tell vivid stories of wartime devastation can be found in TREASURES INTO TRACTORS. . . Eighteen scholars, about half of them Russian, contributed essays about how Soviet officials stripped aristocrats' estates, shipped the 'foul bourgeois' contents to museum storerooms and then traded much of the booty for hard currency through galleries or auctions in the West. White Russian exiles futilely protested; their jewelry, paintings, furniture and books ended up at many institutions, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress."—Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times ("ANTIQUES; New Books for Lovers of Old Stuff," November 27, 2009.)
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