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Article: Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
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Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia Oleg Neverov Thames & Hudson, 36 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 500 51182 9 Vendome Press, $65 ISBN 0 865 65225 2
Russia's pre-Revolutionary collectors are the subject of a pioneering survey, reviewed by Charlotte Gere.
Perhaps it is coincidence, but this sumptuously produced volume comes at a time when wealthy Russians are again collecting--principally Russian--works of art. Several records for Russian artists were exceeded at auctions in November. They are following the second and third wave of collectors featured in Neverov's survey, rising professional men and mercantile princes of the later nineteenth century.