Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-411) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Treasures into tractors

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

268796701

Responsibility statement

Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond, editors

Sub title

the selling of Russia's cultural heritage, 1918-1938

Table Of 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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