Great Private Collections Of Imperial Russia

Download or read book Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia written by Oleg Neverov and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book represents a reconstruction of what a tour of the great Russian collections would have been just prior to the fall of the Romanovs. They are brought back to life by the works of art themselves, (now scattered around the world in Russia and Washington, D.C., Paris, London, Lisbon, or Amsterdam), by family portraits, period watercolors of the collectors' palaces, as well as later photographs of their interiors"--Jacket.