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Treasures into tractors : the selling of Russia's cultural heritage, 1918-1938 / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens ; Seattle : distributed by University of Washington Press, c2009.Description: xxiii, 424 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 1931485070
  • 9781931485074
Uniform titles:
  • Canadian-American Slavic studies.
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Contents:
Foreword / Robert C. Williams -- Preface / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- From preservation to the export of Russia's cultural patrimony / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- The fate of Russia's estate houses and their contents, 1917-1930 / Priscilla Roosevelt -- With patriarch Tikhon's blessing : protecting and restoring works of early painting / Irina Kyzlasova -- A Soviet museum experiment / Natalia Semenova -- Operation Duveen / Elena A. Osokina -- The Hermitage, Gosmuzeifond and Antikvariat / Elena Solomakha -- Sales of works from the Leningrad Palace Museums, 1926-1934 / Rifat Gafifullin -- On the third front : the Soviet museum and its public during the cultural revolution / Konstantin Akinsha and Adam Jolles -- Soviet art sales to Europe, 1919-1936 / Waltraud Bayer -- Gone with the wind : the selling of furniture by David Roentgen and other decorative arts / Wolfram Koeppe -- Russian icons and American money, 1928-1938 / Wendy R. Salmond -- American collectors of Russian decorative art / Anne Odom -- Behind the stacks : American acquisitions of imperial libraries / Kristen Regina -- Books for tractors? : Interwar dispersal and sales of Russian Imperial Palace books / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted -- The Tsar's library : books from Russian imperial palaces at the Library of Congress / Harold M. Leich -- Book dealers, collectors and librarians : major acquisitions of Russian imperial books at Harvard, 1920s-1950s / Irina Tarsis -- Romanov and elite provenance materials in the New York Public Library / Robert H. Davis Jr. and Edward Kasinec.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 community. This volume reveals the extent of the Soviet government's voluntary ?realization? of Russia's cultural patrimony between 1918 and 1938 and its consequences for both the international art market and the perception of Russian art.

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

Published also as vol. 43 (no. 1-4) of the journal Canadian-American Slavic studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-411) and index.

Foreword / Robert C. Williams -- Preface / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- From preservation to the export of Russia's cultural patrimony / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- The fate of Russia's estate houses and their contents, 1917-1930 / Priscilla Roosevelt -- With patriarch Tikhon's blessing : protecting and restoring works of early painting / Irina Kyzlasova -- A Soviet museum experiment / Natalia Semenova -- Operation Duveen / Elena A. Osokina -- The Hermitage, Gosmuzeifond and Antikvariat / Elena Solomakha -- Sales of works from the Leningrad Palace Museums, 1926-1934 / Rifat Gafifullin -- On the third front : the Soviet museum and its public during the cultural revolution / Konstantin Akinsha and Adam Jolles -- Soviet art sales to Europe, 1919-1936 / Waltraud Bayer -- Gone with the wind : the selling of furniture by David Roentgen and other decorative arts / Wolfram Koeppe -- Russian icons and American money, 1928-1938 / Wendy R. Salmond -- American collectors of Russian decorative art / Anne Odom -- Behind the stacks : American acquisitions of imperial libraries / Kristen Regina -- Books for tractors? : Interwar dispersal and sales of Russian Imperial Palace books / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted -- The Tsar's library : books from Russian imperial palaces at the Library of Congress / Harold M. Leich -- Book dealers, collectors and librarians : major acquisitions of Russian imperial books at Harvard, 1920s-1950s / Irina Tarsis -- Romanov and elite provenance materials in the New York Public Library / Robert H. Davis Jr. and Edward Kasinec.

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