{"product_id":"selling-russias-treasures-the-soviet-trade-in-nationalized-art-1917-1938-9780789211545","title":"Selling Russia's Treasures: The Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917 1938","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelling Russia's Treasures: The Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917 1938\u003c\/strong\u003e by Semyonova, Natalya. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780789211545.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis abundantly illustrated oversize volume presents the definitive account of the sale of Russias cultural patrimony by the Soviet government in the interwar years\n\nSelling Russias Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s.\n\nWritten by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russias Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art.\n\nNumerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russias cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.\n\nDistributed for the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255463075893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789211548","price":102.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789211545_69f44a76-8583-46ab-a3f0-c7699705e56a.jpg?v=1779929996","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/selling-russias-treasures-the-soviet-trade-in-nationalized-art-1917-1938-9780789211545","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}