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Treasures into tractors : the selling of Russia's cultural heritage, 1918-1938
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- Creator
- Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond, editors
- Included Title
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- Canadian-American Slavic studies
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens ; Seattle : distributed by University of Washington Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 424 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781931485074, 1931485070
- OCLC
- ocn268796701
- Published also as vol. 43 (no. 1-4) of the journal Canadian-American Slavic studies.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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